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3 days ago
Franchise fatigue could drive an entertainment industry sea change as the appetite for fresh ideas grows and younger audiences make up more box office sales.
Horror’s Hollywood takeover is an exciting moment – but won’t someone think of the squeamish? ○
In this week’s newsletter: The unprecedented success of Backrooms and Obsession has made stars of their creators. For the good of cinema, however, they’d do well to look beyond the genre going forwar…
7 days ago
Masters of the Universe review – Amazon’s He-Man adventure is a weak big-budget misfire ⊖
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a story from The Guardian ⚠️ › International
A laboured attempt to resurrect toy IP very few people still care about is a $200m-budgeted waste of everyone’s time
It’s not just that He-Man himself is from the 80s that gives 2026’s Masters of the …
8 days ago
To YouTube and beyond: how online gen Z directors stormed Hollywood ⊕
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a story from The Guardian ⚠️ › International
Record-breaking box office for Backrooms and Obsession has opened the door for twentysomething YouTube creators as the industry rethinks what audiences want
At this time last year, the idea of a wide-…
Kane Parsons becomes youngest film-maker to open at No 1 in the US with Backrooms ⊖
Backrooms stunned industry observers by taking $81m in its first weekend, a record for studio A24
Kane Parsons has become the youngest film-maker to open a film at number one at the North American box…
11 days ago
Endless yellow corridors started as an internet meme - now it's a Hollywood horror film ⊖
YouTuber Kane Parsons' eerie YouTube series has been adapted for a film called Backrooms.
‘I found a place’: how Backrooms captures the horror of sinister architecture ⊖⊖
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a story from The Guardian ⚠️ › International
Buzzy new thriller Backrooms takes us on an unknowable journey through liminal spaces, the latest film to turn a building into a horror villain
When architect turned furniture store owner Clark (Chiwe…
12 days ago
The 20 best corridors in film – ranked! ⊕
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a story from The Guardian ⚠️ › International
Ahead of the release of Backrooms, we invite you to lose yourself in our list of the most terrifying – and most inviting – hallway scenes in cinema
John Cusack plays a hitman attending his high school…
13 days ago
Backrooms review – Kane Parsons’ icily disturbing horror rewrites the genre rulebook ⊖⊖
Debut from 20-year-old director examines memory, reality and fear after Chiwetel Ejiofor accesses an infinite series of hidden rooms that all feel creepily askew
All the lonely people … where do they …
25 days ago
Are you sitting uncomfortably? How Backrooms upended the horror movie ⊖⊖
It was just a creepy picture on the internet. Now it’s the year’s freakiest film. Its 20-year-old auteur Kane Parsons and stars Chiwetel Ejiofor and Renate Reinsve take us through the terrifying laby…