A strange doorway appears in the basement of a furniture showroom.
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A private user reviewed Backrooms (2026)
Backrooms
Given how many endless, empty geometric hallways our main character had to wander through, having Justin Long’s character from Barbarian pop up with a tape measure to calculate the square footage would have genuinely made this a 5-star masterpiece.
Backrooms completely nails the atmosphere in the first half. The grainy, handheld "home video" style shots build an insane amount of tension, and making the entire environment harsh and well-lit instead of hiding in the dark is a brilliant way to capture that pure, unsettling liminal space dread. The sound design is heavy and unrelenting, but the editing kills the momentum in the second half. The audio masterfully amps up your anxiety to a 10, but the actual visual reveals completely flatten out and fail to deliver on the build-up. Still, it's a solid watch on a big screen.
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