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A 20-year-old YouTuber’s horror film just broke A24’s box office record

Ellsworth Toohey
Jun 02, 2026
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Chiwetel Ejiofor / Photo courtesy of A24

“Backrooms,” a horror film by Kane Parsons, who directed it at 20, opened to $81 million this weekend — the strongest opening A24 has ever had and the largest ever for an original horror movie.

Parsons, who built the film from his creepypasta web series about endless empty rooms, is by far the youngest director to …

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