‘Backrooms’ Director Kane Parsons Says They Built 30,000 Square Feet of Actual Backrooms for the Movie

Parsons:

>“I was working in Blender, modeling the sets, and then we would literally go and build them in real time. We did a lot of tests there to make sure we were getting the general tone that people expected [from] *Backrooms*. We did 50 wallpaper tests to get the right shape of yellow.”

>Parsons shared behind-the-scenes footage of the massive set getting built and recalled that he eventually had to step away from guiding the set construction to start filming exterior scenes. When he came back two weeks later to see the finished set, it was “the strangest, coolest moment on this project for me.”

>”The set was huge. We built 30,000 square feet of actual backrooms that we could walk around in. Actually, some people were getting lost. It felt like being there, which was really weird.”

>“I always try to stay away from the idea that the backrooms is somehow a dreamy headspace thing where, if you turn around, the room could have changed. It preys on the human brain’s ability to map spaces and understand them. The hard part for that is, if you go back the way you came, you will go back the way you came, but it just keeps going and going and going. That’s where the confusion and the convolution goes. So eventually, you just have to give up trying to map it, whereas if it were constantly changing, you would be giving up a lot faster.”

I hope they left them up just to fuck with whoever stumbles across them in the future.

They could probably turn that into an attraction at Universal Studios or something. Would be a lot of fun.

I’m curious how it works in the movie, but so far I just don’t understand what’s supposed to be scary about these rooms.

30,000 Sq ft sounds like a lot, but its less than the size of a football field, which doesn’t sound crazy for a movie set, especially one that consists mainly of drywall and carpet

Easiest sets to build, though. Just endless repetition.