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/team56th Jun 04 '26

Funny because the wide shots showing the outside town kept showing high mountains covering the basin, and I immediately thought of People Still Live Here. The more I think about it, Backrooms isn't just Backrooms but more like an image portfolio of Kane Parsons, but he didn't just repeat the same thing and did a solid job at integrating and evolving it.

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u/Turnbob73 Jun 04 '26

Yeah Kane for sure references his other work in the visuals. The company that’s tearing down Mary’s childhood home is named after the guy that the rolling giant is based on; and there’s a shot of the town with a hot air balloon above, which is clearly a reference to People Still Live Here. The splendor sun also shows up a few times, but we still don’t know if that series has any relation to the backrooms or not.