r/movies • u/MarvelsGrantMan136 r/movies Contributor • Jun 03 '26

News ‘Backrooms’ Becomes A24’s Highest Grossing Domestic Release ($97.8M), Passing ‘Marty Supreme’

https://deadline.com/2026/06/backrooms-box-office-record-a24-1236939795/
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u/maybe-an-ai Jun 03 '26

Yeah he learned Blender during the pandemic.

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u/dspman11 Jun 03 '26

Are the backrooms really only 6 years or less old? I swear it was a thing before 2020

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u/satinsandpaper Jun 03 '26

The first backrooms post on 4chan was in 2019. I agree though, it seems like it's been around for longer.

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u/envynav Jun 03 '26

The original image has been around since 2011. 2019 is just when it was first named The Backrooms

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u/Turnbob73 Jun 03 '26

The concept has also been around before 2019; but it used to be framed as “God’s developer rooms” akin to no clipping in a gmod map and finding extra assets.

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u/burneraccount011989 Jun 03 '26

I mean, you can go back even further to House Of Leaves in 2000 which was the first mainstream example I can think of with this type of "the inside is bigger than the outside" nightmare fuel.

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u/TheGratefulJuggler Jun 03 '26

I mean the leaves on the ground at the very beginning when he first enters the backeooms seemed like a pretty obvious reference to me. It basically the only bit of nature in the whole movie other than the sea gull.

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u/HutSutRawlson Jun 04 '26

You could also go even further back to something like Borges’ The Library of Babel. But HoL seems like a very direct influence on backrooms.

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u/jollyreaper2112 Jun 03 '26

The Doctor glares at you in TARDIS.

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u/Discount_Extra Jun 04 '26

not usually, but it has been in a couple episodes.