A24 will make a horror film about Backrooms, the most viral creepypasta on the internet

At a time when many things on the internet go viral, there are specific topics that aren’t among the daily trends, but every now and then something interesting comes up. In the field of horror, we have seen things like ‘Lights Out’ or the recent ‘Skinamarink’, and to take advantage of the roll, A24 has confirmed the adaptation of ‘The Backrooms’, a horror film based on a viral creepypasta on social networks .

According to information from Deadline, A24 will be handling an adaptation of ‘The Backrooms’.’, a horror series that has gone viral on YouTube. This narrative talks about creepypasta, a term that refers to short fictional horror stories that are written in photos, blogs or videos on the Internet, as if they were modern urban legends, and that some of them have been made extremely viral, such as the case of Slenderman or Jeff the killer.

But this adaptation is specifically from ‘The Backrooms’ short horror film in “found footagewhich became a viral hit. This was directed by Kane Parsons, a director and special effects artist who gained a lot of popularity for a series of videos on this subject of giant, eerie rooms that look like something out of our reality, but with something creepy.

The report mentions it A24 has signed Kane Parsons to direct ‘The Backrooms’, the same creator of the viral Internet short films, which have nearly 100 million views. The adaptation will be handled by the 17-year-old director himself, together with Atomic Monster, Chernin Entertainment and 21 Laps. The story will be entrusted to Robert Patiño, who worked on “DMZ” for HBO Max.

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What will A24’s “The Backrooms” be about?

If you have no idea what these creepypastas are, in his short film, Parsons shares an official synopsis for ‘The Backrooms’: ‘A young filmmaker’s fall into another dimension leaves him wandering into an eerily yellow, empty, labyrinthine office space . , which may or may not be the home of otherworldly beings.”

On his YouTube account you can find the 16 videos that Kane Parsons has posted about his series of short horror films, which begin with the story of a young 90s filmmaker who falls into a strange situation. With the production of A24 under its belt, expect an improvement in the special effects of this horror film that manages to surprise like no other.

The studio behind such horror jewels as ‘Hereditary’, ‘Midsommar’, ‘The Witch’, ‘Bodies Bodies Bodies’, ‘The Lighthouse’, ‘Pearl’ and many more, now has another idea in the genre which, just at least, seems like a pretty original premise. Parsons is expected to start his summer holidays to record and start production on “The Backroooms”.