If you skipped the recent Backrooms theatrical re-release, you can finally see what you missed without leaving home. Director Kane […]
If you skipped the recent Backrooms theatrical re-release, you can finally see what you missed without leaving home.
Director Kane Parsons has officially released Backrooms: Everything Must Gofor free on his YouTube channel, making the 16-minute bonus film available online for the first time.
The footage was originally attached after the credits to July’s Backrooms: Everything Must Go Edition theatrical re-release. Despite the “edition” branding, the actual movie wasn’t extended; audiences watched the original cut followed by this standalone piece of new footage. Dread Central reported on the surprise re-release when it was announced, while A24 now lists the 16-minute short among the bonus features on its upcoming 4K and Blu-ray.
So what exactly are you about to watch?
Everything Must Go essentially returns Backrooms to the found-footage style of Parsons’ original YouTube series, following a team of Async researchers in 1990 as they go deeper into the Backrooms, ScreenCrush explains. They discover remnants of Cap’n Clark’s Ottoman Empire, including the store’s “Everything Must Go” signage impossibly bleeding into the environment, before their expedition leads them into increasingly strange new spaces and eventually back toward something very familiar from the movie.
In other words, it plays less like a deleted scene and more like a new Backrooms short that connects Parsons’ YouTube mythology with the feature film.
Considering the entire phenomenon began with Parsons uploading his Backrooms shorts to YouTube, there’s something wonderfully full circle about Everything Must Go finally ending up there as well.
Watch the complete Backrooms: Everything Must Go below.
