Backrooms: how a creepypasta became the year’s most anticipated horror

By Adam Daniel, Western Sydney University

Backrooms will open in cinemas on 29 May. Its producer credits include filmmaker Shawn Levy and horror maven James Wan, and stars Oscar nominees Chiwetel Ejiofor and Renate Reinsve.

‘Noclipping’, a term borrowed from video games, refers to when players pass through normally impenetrable objects such as walls, ceilings and floors. In the Backrooms context, noclipping leads to being trapped inside a seemingly infinite pale-yellow maze of empty rooms.