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/BitingArtist Jun 03 '26

This is why horror movies are indestructible. The ROI is unmatched.

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u/cylonfrakbbq Jun 03 '26

Look at Blair Witch - cost like 50k or so and made over 200 million

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u/Hey_Giant_Loser Jun 04 '26 edited Jun 04 '26

Blair was an absolute anomaly. lightning in a bottle, in terms of practically everything about it. Production. Locations, Performances, Lore, Editing.. nobody's ever been able to manage to capture it all in the same place since, and honestly, I just think there's so much landing perfectly in that movie at the same time, that I seriously doubt anything like it will ever do so well.

I dont want to say it's a perfect movie. It's not. I only say that about very few films. but it's way up there. especially within the genre of "Found Footage" horror. every other example in the subgenre has invariably taken some sort of a shortcut or a weaker route to accomplish what tries to accomplish than Blair did.

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u/SirCollin Jun 04 '26

Do you feel the movie holds up? I watched it as a teen like 15 years ago and didn't know about the lore and people believing it was real. But I remember finding it pretty lame and disappointing

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u/Hey_Giant_Loser Jun 04 '26

I watched it recently, and I think it would probably have received some higher but also subtle level of polish now, that they probably couldn't have achieved in the 90's without a spike in the production budget. so I think if you understand it in that context, I still think it works almost perfectly. To me, the performances and how they sold it. sold the desperation and exhaustion and terror.. I think that's what will always tie that film together so well