So far this year, we have had several YouTubers taking a step into the world of big theatrical movies. Mark “Markiplier” Fischbach’s film Iron Lung, which made $51 million on a three million dollar budget, and Curry Barker’s film Obsession was hugely successful over the last couple of weekends.

This week, 20-year-old Kane Parsons entered the world of big screen films with this adaptation of his own web series, Backrooms.

Backrooms has been anticipated by a lot of the movie audience as they have done a great job of promoting the creepiness of the film.

Starring Chiwetel Ejiofor, Renate Reinsve, Mark Duplass, Finn Bennett, and Lukita Maxwell, this film was a crazy, weird, creepy film, using techniques of found footage movies, to build the suspense and anxiety of the situation.

According to IMDB, “After a therapist’s patient disappears into a dimension beyond reality, she must venture into the unknown to save him.“

The film was great. The mystery of what was going on was very psychologically scary and unsettling. The found footage camera work showed the strength of that technique. I found it thrilling and there was great acting involved in it.

This does a great job of using the concept of liminal space, which is one of those internet memes/deep dives that many are intrigued by.

I am not sure how I felt about the ending of the film. I was not as satisfied by the ending as I was the rest of the film. Obviously, I can not spoil it, but I just did not love the end.

I found this creative film fun and engaging, keeping the audience unsettled and anxious.

4.1 stars