Backrooms

The past haunts us, but always misremembered. This is the premise of Backrooms, a new film set in the early 1990s and based on a fictional location popularised by 16-yr old Kane Parsons in 2012 on the image board website 4chan (Parsons, now 20, also directed the film). But the idea goes further back than this, beginning in 2012 with an anonymous web user’s interpretation of a photograph of an empty yellow room taken in a former furniture store in the town of Oshkosh, Wisconsin. In 2019, a...