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3 days ago
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 ⊖
‘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…