Kane Parsons’ ‘Backrooms’ Has Already Broken A24’s Opening Weekend Record
It's only Saturday, but Kane Parsons' horror film, Backrooms , has already broken A24’s record for best opening weekend. The record was previously held by Civil War . Directed by the 20-year-old Parsons, Backrooms topped Friday’s box office with $38 million, surpassing Civil War’s $25.5 million (Alex Garland, 2024) and setting a new A24 record. Backrooms was initially expected to break $45 million, but projections now estimate it could reach $80 million over the three-day weekend. With a $10 million budget, the film is expected to gross much more throughout its run. Parsons’ Backrooms is an adaptation of his YouTube series of the same name. The idea originally stems from a creepypasta, the genre of horror legends the internet cooked up, where people would “no-clip” out of reality into liminal spaces. Parsons’ series took the idea to the next level with a found-footage short film that has 80 million views as of May 30, 2026. The short film spawned his series and now a record-sh...
