Kane Parsons was 17 when A24 hired him to direct a feature film. Four years later, the 20-year-old filmmaker has become the studio’s youngest-ever director, and his debut feature Backrooms has turned ...

A24’s Backrooms has completely redefined the boundaries of modern horror. In just six days, the film grossed over $100 million domestically, becoming A24’s highest-grossing domestic release and ...

As the sum total of all current human creativity conveniently dumped in a single place—albeit one that’s then had an algorithmic inversion blender jammed in its skull to make sure things get nice and ...

Perhaps you take an unfamiliar turn. Maybe you walk through a slightly crooked door. Or you simply just leaned against a wall and found yourself falling. It was innocuous enough, but the thing is, now ...

Mark Sammut serves as the lead editor of the Evergreen gaming list department for GameRant, along with contributing to other department like anime lists and resources. In a previous life, he also ...

Only Slate Plus members can gift Slate stories. Become a member to share 10 free articles a month. How does a teenager become the director of one of the year’s most anticipated auteur horror films?

It’s just an empty room — a literal blank space. Ok, well, there is that pile of furniture, arranged in a jumbled, haphazard way that suggests either a makeshift sanctuary or an arcane, sacred ritual.

Chiwetel Ejiofor and Renate Reinsve star in an unforgettable exploration of soulless cityscapes By David Sexton There’s a back story to Backrooms. Since 2011, a creepy photo has circulated on message ...

The Backrooms creepypasta itself originated from a 2019 thread on 4chan, where a photograph of a large, yellow-carpeted room prompted users to describe what it would feel like to be trapped inside it.

Writing from the Chicagoland area in Illinois, Robert is an avid movie watcher and will take just about any excuse to find time to go to his local movie theaters. Robert graduated from Bradley ...

Cartoonist and writer Kris Straub remembers a prominent experience of child confusion and fear all thanks to televison. “There’s a station in L.A., KLCS, that is public television, but back then it ...

Jack Peachey is a features writer who's worked at Dualshockers and Game Rant. An animation nerd, his favourite games don't have a genre in common as much as they all have pretty pictures. When not ...