Backrooms Returns to Theaters as the Everything Must Go Edition

Backrooms is back in U.S. theaters as the Everything Must Go Edition. A24 launched the renamed cut of its highest-grossing film ever on Friday, July 3 with 16 minutes of brand-new post-credit footage. The re-release arrives a month after the horror film crossed $350 million worldwide, making Backrooms A24’s top-grossing release domestically and globally.

The original cut opened to $81.4 million domestically, a record for A24 and the largest opening ever for an original horror film. Re-releasing a renamed cut with new material is a strategy the studio has not previously used on one of its own titles.

Backrooms Is Back in Theaters, With a New Name

The new cut opened on Friday, July 3 across U.S. theaters in time for the July 4 holiday weekend. The Colonial Theatre in Phoenixville, Pennsylvania, listed showtimes for the Everything Must Go Edition through July 9, with screenings at 4:30 p.m. and 7:15 p.m. on the closing day of that booking. The Colonial page listed the runtime at 2 hours and 6 minutes, which is 16 minutes longer than the 110-minute original cut.

Box office, by the numbers

• Opening weekend domestic: $81.4 million
• First-day domestic: $38.4 million
• Production budget: $10 million
• Worldwide gross as of July 7, 2026: $349.7 million
• New runtime with post-credit footage: 2 hours and 6 minutes

Box Office Mojo tracking put the worldwide number at $349,792,472 in its July 7 update, with $190,480,127 from domestic theaters and $159,312,345 from international markets including a $14.1 million total from China. The opening weekend haul of $81.4 million was more than three times the $25.5 million debut of A24’s previous record-holder, the Backrooms extended cut returning to theaters this Friday.

A24 formally announced the re-release at the end of June. The studio described the new material as more lore and more Easter eggs for fans, per its release-date announcement, and described the runtime addition as 16 minutes of brand-new post-credit footage.

Sixteen Minutes of Post-Credit Footage From Kane Parsons

A24 framed the new material as “theatrically exclusive post-credit bonus footage” rather than deleted scenes woven through the picture. That positioning matters: it tells fans the material will not move to streaming at the same time as the main feature, a point made explicit in what the July 4 weekend re-release adds to the original cut. Director Kane Parsons described the additional sequence in messages posted to a Discord server for his YouTube audience, calling it footage intended specifically for viewers of his YouTube series. Parsons built and animated the sequence in Blender, the same free CGI tool he learned on a Chromebook in middle school, in the same visual style as his Backrooms: Found Footage web shorts.

From creepypasta to A24

1. 2019. A photograph of empty yellow office space circulates on 4chan as a creepypasta, the seed of what becomes the Backrooms universe.
2. January 7, 2022. Parsons, then 16, uploads the first episode of “Backrooms: Found Footage” to his Kane Pixels YouTube channel.
3. February 6, 2023. Variety reports that A24, Chernin Entertainment, Atomic Monster and 21 Laps Entertainment are moving forward with a feature, with Parsons set to direct.
4. May 29, 2026. Backrooms opens in U.S. theaters at $81.4 million domestic, A24’s biggest debut ever.
5. July 3, 2026. Backrooms: Everything Must Go Edition begins playing in U.S. theaters with 16 minutes of additional material.

In its second weekend, Backrooms grossed $26.3 million domestically, a 70 percent drop from the opening frame but enough to push the global total past $213 million and into the position of A24’s biggest film of all time. By the end of the fourth weekend, Backrooms had reached roughly $301 million worldwide.

The $10 Million Bet That Made A24 Rewrite Its Record Book

Backrooms cost $10 million to make, a figure A24 and Chernin Entertainment confirmed in the run-up to release. The film hit $100 million domestic in six days, the fastest such run in A24 history and a pace covered in the trade’s report on how Backrooms cleared $100 million in six days. It has since passed $191 million domestic, topping the $96 million lifetime of Marty Supreme, A24’s previous record-holder. Globally, Backrooms has now overtaken The Mandalorian and Grogu, which sits at $327.4 million worldwide, according to Deadline’s coverage of the run.

Box office scale, side by side

Sources: Variety, Box Office Mojo.

By late June, Backrooms had reached $357 million worldwide, per The Hollywood Reporter’s coverage of the $350 million global milestone Backrooms crossed in 37 days. The film had become A24’s top-grossing release in multiple countries, including China (with a $14.1 million total that included a $4.7 million territory weekend and a 12 percent drop in its second frame), France, Russia and CIS, Poland, and Thailand, the trade paper reported. Backrooms now sits as the second-highest-grossing horror film of 2026 behind Obsession.

A 20-Year-Old YouTuber, a Creepypasta, and a Six-Year Pipeline

Parsons was 20 years old when Backrooms opened. Born in 2005, the year YouTube launched, he grew up with the platform as his primary creative outlet. His first Backrooms web series hit YouTube on January 7, 2022, when he was 16. The series adapted a 2019 creepypasta photo from 4chan, picked up in subsequent years through Reddit forums and TikTok reinterpretations. James Wan of Blumhouse-Atomic Monster told Variety his first Zoom meeting with Parsons was joined, instead of by an agent or manager, by the teenager’s father, as laid out in the profile of how a 16-year-old YouTuber won over Hollywood producers.

The cast of Backrooms

• Chiwetel Ejiofor as Clark, a furniture store owner
• Renate Reinsve as Dr. Mary Kline, Clark’s therapist
• Mark Duplass as Phil, an Async scientist
• Finn Bennett as Bobby Franklin, Kat’s boyfriend
• Lukita Maxwell as Kathrine Taylor, Clark’s assistant manager

Filming began in Vancouver on July 7, 2025, under the working title Effigy, and wrapped on August 14, 2025. Will Soodik is credited as the sole screenwriter on the film, with revisions to an earlier draft by Roberto Patino. The finished feature premiered at the Aero Theatre in Santa Monica on May 7, 2026, three weeks ahead of the wide U.S. release. James Wan, Shawn Levy, Osgood Perkins, Roberto Patino, Michael Clear, Dan Cohen, Dan Levine, Chris Ferguson, Peter Chernin, Jenno Topping, and Kori Adelson are credited as producers.

Doubts that Parsons actually directed the picture circulated online before release. Mark Duplass addressed that chatter directly on X.

Kane was 100% in control. More so than many directors 3x his age.

Mark Duplass, who plays Phil in the film, posted the line on X in the days before Backrooms opened wide in U.S. theaters.

Backrooms and Obsession Are Pulling the Same Audience

Backrooms is the second-highest-grossing horror film of 2026, behind Curry Barker’s Obsession. Both directors cut their teeth on YouTube. Both films are drawing a young, social-media-native crowd: 75 percent of Obsession’s opening-weekend audiences were between 18 and 25, per the company’s exit data. Producers on both pictures are now publicly framing the success as a generational shift in horror, as covered in our report on how Backrooms and Obsession outgrossed a Star Wars film at the box office.

Obsession passed $400 million worldwide on a budget below $1 million, with the film made for around $750,000. The Blumhouse-Atomic Monster-produced film grew its gross from one weekend to the next in its second and third weekends, the first such gain for a non-holiday release since E.T. in 1982, according to trade press coverage of the picture’s run. Kori Adelson, a producer on Backrooms, told Variety that Hollywood needs to listen to the audience these two films have built.

“There’s a new generation of moviegoers who are declaring a very specific taste for horror movies that is quite left-of-center,” Jason Blum, the founder of Blumhouse-Atomic Monster, told Variety. Lisa Bunnell, head of distribution at Focus Features, said the run is happening without Imax or premium-format screens behind it. The same audience is buying tickets multiple times, Bunnell added, mostly in Los Angeles.

A Sequel Is Already Brewing

A sequel to Backrooms is already in development, Deadline reported in late June. Parsons remains attached to direct. A24 has not announced when either cut of Backrooms will leave theaters for streaming, or when the Everything Must Go post-credit material will travel with the main feature to digital platforms. The Colonial Theatre in Phoenixville was showing the cut through July 9, and AMC’s listings carried the title across the same window.

Parsons told Variety he has already mapped out continuations for the web series that runs alongside the feature. Adelson’s interview kept the focus on the audience rather than on sequel specifics. “Take risks. Be bold,” Adelson told the trade. “Make choices that are driven by the audience, not by fear.” The Everything Must Go Edition was running through at least July 9, with no streaming date confirmed for either cut.

Frequently Asked Questions

What is the Backrooms: Everything Must Go Edition?

It is the theatrical re-release of Backrooms that A24 began putting in theaters on July 3, 2026, retitled to mark the addition of 16 minutes of brand-new post-credit footage directed by Kane Parsons. The material is described by A24 as containing more lore and more Easter eggs for fans.

Is Backrooms still in theaters?

Yes. The Everything Must Go Edition was playing at the Colonial Theatre in Phoenixville, Pennsylvania, through at least July 9, 2026, with screenings at 4:30 p.m. and 7:15 p.m. on that day. Theater-by-theater availability varies, and listings pages update daily.

How long is the extended Backrooms cut?

2 hours and 6 minutes, running 16 minutes longer than the 110-minute original cut of the film. The added time covers the new post-credit material written by Parsons specifically for viewers of his YouTube series.

When will Backrooms stream?

A24 has not announced a streaming or PVOD release date for either version of the film. The Everything Must Go post-credit material has been described as theatrically exclusive, so it is unlikely to arrive on VOD at the same time as the main feature.

How much has Backrooms made at the box office?

Backrooms had officially grossed $349,792,472 worldwide as of July 7, 2026, including $190,480,127 from domestic theaters, per Box Office Mojo tracking.