Liminal spaces are blowing up.
Backrooms, indie film company A24’s latest horror release, has been setting all kinds of records this week. Its US$118 million at the worldwide box office on its opening weekend saw it become A24’s biggest hit ever, while director Kane Parsons became the youngest-ever filmmaker to have a film hit number one at the US box office, at just 20 years old.
Costing just US$10 million to make, Backrooms is undoubtedly in a race with the also recently released Obsession to be the most profitable scary movie of the year. Yet its success is arguably no surprise.
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