‘Backrooms’: Order Your Very Own Cap’n Clark’s Ottoman Empire Tee!

In A24’s Backrooms, Academy Award nominee Chiwetel Ejiofor plays a furniture store owner who discovers a portal to a strange, empty office space hidden in the back of his shop, Cap’n Clark’s Ottoman Empire.

The studio began airing faux commercials for the furniture store, which play out like an old-school local spot that would have been shown between those carpet commercials all morning while you were playing hooky from school.

Now, A24 is making actual merch for Cap’n Clark’s Ottoman Empire, including the very first screen-printed beige cotton t-shirt that’s currently available in the A24 shop.

In the film, Ejiofor plays a furniture store owner who discovers a portal to a strange, empty office space hidden in the back of his shop. In the full trailer, he first approaches it with a kind of Poltergeist-style curiosity, testing it, trying to understand what it is. But as the trailer goes on, it becomes clear this place is way bigger – and way worse – than he thought.

Backrooms is in theaters May 29, 2026.