Encounters with Real Life Backrooms

<p></p><p>TRANSCRIPT HostWelcome to the Rough Cut Journal podcast. I’m your host, Gaby Jimenez. On this episode, we’re looking at director Kane Parsons 2026 film The Backrooms, a feature film released by A24, Set in 1991, the film opens with grainy found footage. A cameraman is attacked by an unseen force inside a bland corporate office and a windowless room with yellow wallpaper, buzzing fluorescent lights and damp carpet. Drawing from internet lore, the backrooms turns this sterile, mass produced office space into the main horror element ripe with residual anxiety.</p><p>But strip away the sci fi h...