Old School. Biblically Independent.
By Kayleigh Donaldson | Film | August 18, 2026
The Backrooms go on and on. Kane Parsons’s film introduced a chunk of the world to the creepypasta mythos that made us all afraid of ugly yellow rooms and weirdly mutated furniture, and the A24 horror became one of the biggest indie movies of the year. Not bad for a 21-year-old director who got his start making shorts on YouTube. After grossing $382 million worldwide, Parsons is going back to his roots with more Backrooms lore. He dropped a new video, titled “Everything Must Go.”
This new addition to the lore was actually included as a post-credit special in the second theatrical run for Backrooms. It will be included on the Blu-ray release too. It seems to take place before the movie, and the focus is on a few very weird signs in Clark’s crappy furniture store. It’s impressive how Parsons’ take on the Backrooms manages to make something as mundane as a sign feel deeply unnerving. That’s the thing that’s always creeped me out the most about this lore: the uncanny ways that totally average and familiar things can just f**k with your mind by changing one little thing. Truly, I spent most of my time watching Backrooms and being extremely creeped out by the simplest bits. Why is that chair sinking so oddly into the floor?!
A sequel has not officially been greenlit, but it seems inevitable given both its massive commercial success and Parson’s own interest in expanding his narrative. Personally, I’m very interested in seeing what he pulls off, because even this one 16-minute video had me feeling twitchy. Stop going into the creepy nightmare rooms with the evil furniture!
