{"id":415809,"date":"2026-07-28T23:22:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-28T23:22:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/415809\/"},"modified":"2026-07-28T23:22:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-28T23:22:10","slug":"backrooms-director-kane-parsons-on-why-san-jose-is-a-rich-setting-for-horror","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/415809\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Backrooms\u2019 Director Kane Parsons on Why San Jose is a Rich Setting for Horror"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\nAirdate: Wednesday, July 29, 2026 at 9 AM\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"blocks-v1-Paragraph-__Paragraph__paragraph wp-block wp-block-paragraph container\">Kane Parsons, the 21-year-old director of this summer\u2019s hit horror film \u201cBackrooms,\u201d began his career not in film school, but by making short videos on YouTube while attending middle and high school in the North Bay. He stumbled upon an online photo of creepy, yellow-tinted empty rooms being called \u201cthe backrooms,\u201d read the accompanying internet lore and contributed to it with his own web series, which garnered him an A24 directing gig at just 17. Now, Parsons\u2019 San Jose-set feature film has been credited with revitalizing Hollywood and with capturing existential, generational fears. We\u2019ll talk with Parsons about why Silicon Valley is such a rich site for horror, and with film professors about how horror films have long documented the key anxieties of every generation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"blocks-v1-Paragraph-__Paragraph__paragraph wp-block wp-block-paragraph container\">Guests:<\/p>\n<p>Kane Parsons, filmmaker and director, \u201cBackrooms\u201dKatherine Guerra, assistant professor of cinematic arts, Cal State Long Beach James Francis Jr., professor of English literature, Texas A&amp;M University<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Airdate: Wednesday, July 29, 2026 at 9 AM Kane Parsons, the 21-year-old director of this summer\u2019s hit horror&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":415810,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[88,90,89],"class_list":["post-415809","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-jose","tag-san-jose","tag-san-jose-headlines","tag-san-jose-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/415809","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=415809"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/415809\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/415810"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=415809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=415809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=415809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}