5 essential Backrooms videos to watch on YouTube after the movie
Kane Parsons’ Backrooms horror movie has been a hit, but viewers looking for narrative clarity may find the film’s YouTube predecessors more confusing than helpful. Over a decade ago, Parsons created 22 Backrooms videos on YouTube starting in his mid-teens, which serve as early experiments in Blender visual effects and environmental sound design rather than coherent storytelling.
These fragmentary videos prioritize mood and atmosphere over narrative progression, functioning more like scattered clues to an evolving mystery than a linear story. Viewed individually, they appear as abstract explorations of unsettling environments; however, when watched together, they do begin to interconnect, though not always in immediately comprehensible ways.
One example is “9780415263573,” a brief 30-second clip featuring highway dashboard camera footage showing a vehicle disappearing—a cryptic moment that hints at the broader Backrooms mythology without explicit explanation.
Despite their experimental nature, these videos form part of Parsons’ larger creative vision. He has outlined ambitious plans for an expanded movie series that would fully flesh out the Backrooms mystery, suggesting that the fragmentary YouTube videos may ultimately serve as foundational pieces in a much grander narrative structure. While the existing Backrooms film and YouTube catalog provide atmospheric horror experiences, complete answers to the mythology’s deeper questions appear to await future installments.