'Backrooms' trailer teases a nightmarish journey into an eerie liminal space

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Chiwetel Ejiofor stands in a yellow-hued room looking concerned.
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It's time to "no clip out of reality" and into...somewhere else.

Following on from a very eerie teaser we now have a full trailer for A24's Backrooms, Kane Parsons' feature length adaptation of his viral YouTube series which was in turn inspired by a 4chan creepypasta.

In the video above we see a man (Chiwetel Ejiofor) discovering a doorway to what appears to be another dimension in the basement of a store. Cue an exploration of a horrifying yellow liminal space where the rooms are either cavernously large or nightmarishly small — and possibly not unoccupied.

Backrooms stars Chiwetel Ejiofor, Renate Reinsve, Mark Duplass, Finn Bennett, and Lukita Maxwell.

Backrooms is in theaters May 29.

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Sam Haysom is the Deputy UK Editor for Mashable. He covers entertainment and online culture, and writes horror fiction in his spare time.


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