Backrooms has a teaser trailer and it's absolutely perfect

An off-yellow hallway with a strange looking creature lurking in the distance — (Image credit: A24)

A24's Backrooms movie has a new teaser trailer
The movie arrives in theaters on May 29
Backrooms is based on the Creepypasta of the same name, with a focus on strange, liminal spaces

Backrooms is the next A24 horror movie joining the production company's impressive repertoire, and I'm already thrilled with how good it looks. A brief teaser trailer has been released ahead of its May 29 release.

There are plenty of exciting new movies arriving this year, and among them are some great horror offerings. I was recently impressed by Neon's first trailer for Exit 8, which sees a man trapped in a subway station mirroring the liminal horror of Backrooms.

I'm very excited to see more of this intriguing horror universe explored, especially since Kane Parsons is directing, and I'm already a huge fan of his Backrooms web series.

Check out the eerie teaser for Backrooms below.

Backrooms | Official Teaser HD | A24 - YouTube

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A24's new movie has perfectly captured the creepy atmosphere of The Backrooms

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If you spend a lot of time reading weird, creepy internet lore like me, you'll know how significant "The Backrooms" concept is. It's spawned plenty of threads, podcasts, and even video games, with my favorite being the horror walking simulator POOLS.

For me, it's the uncertainty of The Backrooms that makes it so compelling. You never quite know what's around the corner, or what might be following you as you try to navigate these liminal spaces. They can be seemingly ordinary things like office blocks or shopping malls, but abandoned and not quite right. The idea of them is that you've clipped out of reality into a strange dimension that feels like our reality, but is anything but.

Right now, we know it follows a therapist's patient who goes missing into a dimension and stars Doctor Strange actor Chiwetel Ejiofor alongside Mark Duplass, known for his work on the found-footage horror Creep.

The mundane has never been so scary, and our first look at Backrooms has made me feel really optimistic about the upcoming movie. I just hope it lives up to the hype.

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Lucy is a long-time movie and television lover who is an approved critic on Rotten Tomatoes. She has written several reviews in her time, starting with a small self-ran blog called Lucy Goes to Hollywood before moving onto bigger websites such as What's on TV and What to Watch, with TechRadar being her most recent venture. Her interests primarily lie within horror and thriller, loving nothing more than a chilling story that keeps her thinking moments after the credits have rolled. Many of these creepy tales can be found on the streaming services she covers regularly.

When she’s not scaring herself half to death with the various shows and movies she watches, she likes to unwind by playing video games on Easy Mode and has no shame in admitting she’s terrible at them. She also quotes The Simpsons religiously and has a Blinky the Fish tattoo, solidifying her position as a complete nerd.

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