{"id":594511,"date":"2026-05-20T15:14:13","date_gmt":"2026-05-20T15:14:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/594511\/"},"modified":"2026-05-20T15:14:13","modified_gmt":"2026-05-20T15:14:13","slug":"what-are-the-backrooms-and-why-the-a24-film-by-kane-parsons-is-so-scary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/594511\/","title":{"rendered":"What are the Backrooms and why the A24 film by Kane Parsons is so scary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<p>You might not know it, but you are in the world of Kane Parsons, known online as Kane Pixels. Born between 2005 and 2006, Parsons\u2019 is a filmmaker, visual effects artist, YouTuber, and musician who has conquered the web thanks to his ability to create unsettling, creepypasta-style atmospheres. His notoriety exploded in January 2022 with the YouTube release of The Backrooms (Found Footage), a short film set in the Backrooms universe. It quickly went viral, serving as a prelude to a series of episodes that redefined the perception of \u201cinternet-native stories\u201d within the horror genre. The success of the series paved the way for a film adaptation directed by Parsons, produced by A24 and expected in theaters on May 27th.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; You might not know it, but you are in the world of Kane Parsons, known online as&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":594512,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[96,2839,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-594511","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-entertainment","tag-movies","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/594511","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=594511"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/594511\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/594512"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=594511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=594511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=594511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}