Blackrooms
YouTuber Kane Parsons makes his feature directing debut with this brilliant and genuinely disturbing conceptual horror film based on his web series.
There is something here of the V/H/S found footage franchise - it’s about people walled up in their own memories, imprisoned in endlessly remembered scenes from their past, or miserably perceived versions of their present existences in which they have become caricatures of themselves. Perhaps the action of the film is not metaphorical and the “backrooms” of the title simply exist - it’s really hard to know. Chiwetel Ejiofor and Renate Reinsve give barnstormingly good performances as Clark and Mary, the less you know about the film the better going in. But be prepared for it to stay with you looong afterwards.
2026 / 110min / 15 / Psychological Thriller, Horror, Sci-Fi