Backrooms’ New Behind-The-Scenes Reveal Means We Need A Sequel Now More Than Ever

Backrooms' new behind-the-scenes reveals about the franchise's ending and timeline makes a sequel for the 2026 movie even more of a need for the future. Backrooms' success comes alongside a range of other 2026 movie hits that revolve around the YouTube sphere, with Iron Lung being made by famous YouTuber Markiplier, The Amazing Digital Circus' ending becoming a major movie, and Obsession being directed by online comedian and creator Curry Barker.

Backrooms is perhaps the most interesting example of this 2026 subgenre, though, since it builds on director Kane Parsons' years spent making a YouTube series around the Backrooms concept, and since it opens up the door for next chapters of Parsons' Backrooms project to have more in the way of funding and in the way of people who are invested in the series.

Indeed, based on Kane Parsons' latest comments about his wider Backrooms series and his plans for when and how it will end, the Backrooms movie came at the perfect time. That said, there's still definitely enough space for a movie sequel to take place - and ultimately now all the more reason and room for a follow-up film to release given how it could benefit the wider franchise to do so.

In an interview with Triple_J, Kane Parsons delved into much about the Backrooms series, both in terms of the 2026 movie he directed, and in terms of the wider series he made beforehand and still appears to intend to create more of soon.

Interestingly, during this discussion, Kane Parsons mentioned that he has always had a specific ending for the franchise in mind. While the franchise is still a good way off this ending according to Parsons, it's been carrying along that track for a long time, with the movie being another piece of the puzzle constructed along the way after the opportunity to make a tie-in film arose for the creator.

This is fascinating to note for a few reasons, but perhaps most crucially because it shows how much room there is for another follow-up film if there's still much left to cover before this planned ending. Similarly, given this ending is no doubt a true spectacle for Parsons to have held to it over all these years, it could be a truly spectacular movie event in its own right if the story would work in film format.

The Backrooms Movie Being A Part Of A Larger Plan Makes It Even More Exciting To Revisit

Given the differing formats of the Backrooms movie and Kane Parsons' online series, it previously didn't seem entirely, specifically clear whether the two were meant to be considered two parts of the same whole, or alternate takes on the Backrooms concept that had some crossover but were their own different entities - which worked well as part of the liminal confusion the franchise hinges around.

However, now we have more concrete discussion of the movie as a tangible part of the wider Backrooms series, the film seems even more important, as the first bigger budget exploration of the concept of the Backrooms itself, and as a prime encapsulation of the strongest parts of the series' themes, and the questions it poses the viewer.

As such, there's all the more reason to rewatch Backrooms and interpret the layers within the movie, given it seems to be a major chess piece in the overarching plan for the wider series, and plenty of reason to be excited about whatever ending is planned for said series, even if it's not likely to be one that unfolds anytime soon right now.