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.

Parsons was already making films by then; he started uploading YouTube videos from age 10, and entering his work into local festivals.