Backrooms unleashes Everything Must Go Edition with 15 minutes of unseen terror
Horror hit Backrooms is back: A24 is rolling out the Everything Must Go Edition from director Kane Parsons, packing 15 minutes of new post-credits footage for those who stay to the very end.
There’s been a lot of noise lately about A24 cosying up to Google for some AI project aimed at ‘revolutionising’ filmmaking—though honestly, that’s probably a story for another day. What A24 would like you to remember instead is this: they’re re-releasing Backrooms, the breakout horror hit from Kane Parsons, and there’s actually a decent twist this time. It’s not just a repeat performance.
New Cut: 'Backrooms: Everything Must Go Edition'
This fresh version, officially titled Backrooms: Everything Must Go Edition, lands in cinemas on July 3rd. The headline here? There’s an extra 15 minutes jammed in, including what they’re billing as a 'theatrically exclusive post-credit' sequence. All up, you’re looking at a running time of 126 minutes for this edition. The bonus bits aren’t just tacked on—they’re meant for the big screen only, at least for now.
Who’s Actually In This Thing?
- Chiwetel Ejiofor (12 Years a Slave)
- Renate Reinsve (The Worst Person in the World)
- Mark Duplass (Creep)
- Finn Bennett (True Detective)
- Lukita Maxwell (Shrinking)
- Avan Jogia (Zombieland: Double Tap)
Production on Backrooms kicked off about a year back, with Ejiofor and Reinsve heading the cast—a fair bit of awards clout there before you even get to the rest.
Who Paid For All This & Who's Pulling The Strings?
This isn’t just A24’s baby. Chernin Entertainment is co-financing, so there are plenty of cooks in the kitchen. On the producer front, there’s Patino, then you’ve got Shawn Levy and Dan Levine (that’s the 21 Laps crew), who you probably know from Stranger Things, plus James Wan and Michael Clear from Atomic Monster. Alayna Glasthal is on the day-to-day for Atomic Monster. Judson Scott is dropping in as executive producer. Not exactly a small operation.
Box Office: This Thing Is Massive
You want numbers? Backrooms was made for just $10 million—pocket money, as far as horror goes. Since its release on 29th May, it’s hoovered up over $330 million worldwide. That’s not just a hit, it’s now the highest-grossing film A24’s ever had.
Backrooms: What’s The Point?
Now, if you haven’t stumbled across the original internet videos, Parsons first made his mark on YouTube as Kane Pixels, with found-footage style shorts that went viral. And yes, it all stems from one of those uncanny internet stories that seem perfectly harmless, until you’re up at 2AM regretting a Wikipedia deep dive. The concept started as a 2019 creepypasta post on 4chan—a glitch in reality, endless yellow corridors, and the feeling you’ve wandered into somewhere you definitely shouldn’t be.
The feature isn’t just a stitched-together montage of those videos, either. The film ditches the faceless protagonist for a new angle: the story follows a furniture shop owner who discovers a labyrinth of liminal spaces lurking beneath his showroom. Who writes this stuff? That’s Will Soodik, who’s got Westworld on his CV.
As for what’s actually happening with the plot, Parsons mentioned in an interview with ABC that his series deals with a shady operation called ASYNC, which—back in the late 1980s no less—opens some kind of gateway between our world and 'The Backrooms'. So it’s not just jump scares: there’s a lore rabbit hole to fall down, if you’re so inclined.
'Theatrically exclusive post-credit' — that’s the promise for the new scenes in this release.