Where to watch
Each link opens a search on that service. Checked 14 October 2026.
Streaming data from JustWatch
Backrooms
2026
· Movie
· 110 min
C
MEANRANK
68/100
Where it ranks
- Mean Score #2738
- IMDb #2812
- Rotten Tomatoes #1639
- Metacritic #1216
- Letterboxd #2901
- Rotten Tomatoes Critics #1412
+8 more
- Rotten Tomatoes Audience #2250
- Metacritic Critics #917
- Metacritic Audience #1866
- Criticker #2114
- Douban #2005
- Kinopoisk #3978
- AlloCiné #3137
- Trakt #3388
Every rating
45–86
out of 100
Split
Lowest is Criticker on 45, highest is Rotten Tomatoes critics on 86. Critics average 81, everyone else 65.
See the films the platforms disagree about most →A strange doorway appears in the basement of a furniture showroom.
Details
- Director
- Kane Parsons
- Writer
- Will Soodik
- Based on
- The Backrooms by http://www.wikidata.org/.well-known/genid/7650bc321f8603d92013efd1a1cb7e28
- Studio
- Atomic Monster, 21 Laps Entertainment, A24, Phobos
- Released
- 27 May 2026
- Country
- United States, Canada
- Language
- English
- Runtime
- 110 min
- Rated
- R
- Budget
- $10.0M
- Box office
- $400.6M
- Awards
- 0 wins, 13 nominations
This title elsewhere
Cast
Full cast (24) →
Awards & nominations
See all 13 →0 wins from 13 nominations across 3 ceremonies
| Critics' Choice Super Awards 2026 | Best Horror Movie | Backrooms | Nominee |
| Critics' Choice Super Awards 2026 | Best Actor in a Horror Movie | Chiwetel Ejiofor | Nominee |
| Critics' Choice Super Awards 2026 | Best Actress in a Horror Movie | Renate Reinsve | Nominee |
| Astra Midseason Movie Awards 2026 | Best Supporting Actress | Renate Reinsve | Nominee |
| Astra Midseason Movie Awards 2026 | Best Picture | Backrooms | Nominee |
| Astra Midseason Movie Awards 2026 | Best Director | Kane Parsons | Nominee |
| Astra Midseason Movie Awards 2026 | Best Actor | Chiwetel Ejiofor | Nominee |
| Fangoria Chainsaw Awards 2026 | Best Wide Release | Backrooms | Nominee |
Awards from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA.
More like this
Beyond the numbers
All lists →
29 October 2026
Five great TV scores—and the scenes that explain why
Twin Peaks, Succession, Game of Thrones, Westworld and Stranger Things, judged for what their original music does inside the drama.
8 October 2026
Why The Matrix still works: the action is the argument
How bodies, belief and a world with visible rules make the 1999 film more than a collection of famous effects.
30 September 2026
The most popular film genres? What the ratings actually show
Drama leads the total, but volume, a typical film’s attention and average score tell different stories.
29 September 2026
Films rated 4.7 on Google: a 59-film archive
A historical selection, with a closer look at spectacle, sequels and what a high audience average leaves out.
29 September 2026
Films rated 4.9 on Google: a 56-film archive
Saved star ratings, useful comparisons and a few places to begin. This is an archive, not a live Google ranking.
29 September 2026
Denis Villeneuve films ranked: nine films from Polytechnique to Dune
What the scale, silence and withheld information accomplish, and where they can keep a viewer at a distance.
Just released
See all →
Coming soon
Trailer — Backrooms
×Full cast — Backrooms
×
13 awards — Backrooms
×
Critics' Choice Super Awards
3 nominations
| Best Actor in a Horror Movie | Chiwetel Ejiofor | Nominee |
| Best Actress in a Horror Movie | Renate Reinsve | Nominee |
| Best Horror Movie | Backrooms | Nominee |
Fangoria Chainsaw Awards
6 nominations
| Best Cinematography | Jeremy Cox | Nominee |
| Best Creature FX | Amazing Ape Productions and Werner Pretorius | Nominee |
| Best First Feature | Backrooms | Nominee |
| Best Lead Performance | Chiwetel Ejiofor | Nominee |
| Best Score | Kane Parsons and Edo Van Breemen | Nominee |
| Best Wide Release | Backrooms | Nominee |
Astra Midseason Movie Awards
4 nominations
| Best Actor | Chiwetel Ejiofor | Nominee |
| Best Director | Kane Parsons | Nominee |
| Best Picture | Backrooms | Nominee |
| Best Supporting Actress | Renate Reinsve | Nominee |