We've been covering Kane Parson's rise since the beginning, back when he was a teenager uploading found-footage horror to YouTube using free software and borrowed cameras.

The scale-up to a feature landed him Chiwetel Ejiofor, Renate Reinsve, and lessons worth stealing.

If you're excited about the film and want to understand the lineage it comes from (or if you just need some good liminal…

Kane Parsons is about to become A24's youngest-ever feature director when Backrooms opens in theaters on May 29.

If you're not caught up, Parsons started uploading a found-footage horror series to his YouTube channel (Kane Pixels) in January 2022, when he was 16, adapting the "Backrooms" Internet meme (an eerie internet myth of fluorescent-lit, infinitely looping liminal rooms) into a…