Exclusive: Kane Parsons Officially Returning to Direct ‘Backrooms 2’

EXCLUSIVE: Dread Central can exclusively report that Kane Parsons has officially signed on to direct Backrooms 2 for A24, sources tell us.

An official announcement is imminent.

The news isn’t exactly surprising considering what a massive hit Backrooms became. The bigger question was whether Parsons would jump directly into a sequel or make something else first, especially with it openly known that he’s developing another project with Backrooms producer and mentor Osgood Perkins (Longlegs). As we previously reported here on Dread Central, Perkins played an important role behind the scenes on Backrooms, helping Parsons develop the screenplay and mentoring him through his first feature.

We now know Backrooms 2 will be Parsons’ next movie.

It’s still pretty remarkable how quickly we got here.

Parsons was just 16 when he uploaded The Backrooms (Found Footage) to YouTube in 2022, expanding on the internet’s existing Backrooms mythology with his own interconnected series of analog horror shorts. The original nine-minute video alone has amassed roughly 80 million views.

Executive producer Chris White discovered Parsons after his own teenage son showed him the video. White reached out to Parsons and eventually brought the project to James Wan and Michael Clear at Atomic Monster, which culminated in A24 acquiring the rights and Parsons directing his first feature while still a teenager.

And then .