The 16-minute theatrical-only clip 'Everything Must Go' from the film 'Backrooms' has been released on YouTube and is now available to watch as the latest installment in Kane Parsons' series.
Filmmaker Kane Parsons, who has developed the internet-born urban legend 'The Backrooms' into his own unique video works, released the latest installment in the series, 'Backrooms - Everything Must Go,' on YouTube on August 18, 2026. The approximately 16-minute 'Everything Must Go' is an additional video that was shown after the end credits of the film 'Backrooms,' which was released in the United States on May 29, 2026, and serves as a link between Parsons' YouTube series and the film version.
'The Backrooms' is an internet ghost story that spread in May 2019 after a single image was posted to the '/x/' section of the anonymous message board 4chan, which deals with paranormal phenomena. The image depicts an empty room with yellowish wallpaper and rows of fluorescent lights, and the setting is that 'if you accidentally slip away from reality, you will reach the endless Backrooms.' It has become known as a prime example of a space called a 'liminal space,' which is unnaturally deserted and somehow familiar. The source of the original photograph was later identified, and it was found to be a photograph taken during the renovation of a building in Oshkosh, Wisconsin, USA, and posted on a website in 2003.
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One of the people who gave Backrooms its own story, which previously consisted only of anonymous images and short texts, is Kane Parsons, who operates online as 'Kane Pixels.' Parsons, who was 16 years old at the time, posted a short film of about 9 minutes, 'The Backrooms (Found Footage),' to YouTube on January 7, 2022. The film depicts the cameraman suddenly falling from the real world into Backrooms and wandering around a yellow room with the video camera still rolling.
The Backrooms (Found Footage) - YouTube
What's particularly distinctive about 'The Backrooms (Found Footage)' is that most of the backrooms weren't filmed in real buildings, but were created using 3DCG. Parsons used the free 3DCG creation software 'Blender' and the video editing software 'Adobe After Effects' to create footage that looks like it was shot on low-resolution videotape. What started as a short film made by an individual has since become a series, incorporating research records from a fictional research organization called 'Async Research Institute.'
The YouTube series didn't simply portray Backrooms as a 'dangerous alternate dimension to wander into,' but instead released footage of researchers measuring the space and recording unknown phenomena. After 'Backrooms - Static Dead End' on February 12, 2025, there were no new Backrooms episodes posted for about a year and a half, during which time Parsons was working on a feature film version.
The result is the A24 feature film 'Backrooms.' Directed by Parsons himself, it depicts a person stepping into an endless space through a strange entrance that appears in the basement of a furniture store. The film was released in the United States on May 29, 2026. In addition to the regular version, there is also a 'Backrooms: Everything Must Go Edition' which includes 16 minutes of additional footage after the main feature. 'Everything Must Go' is shown as a separate video after the end credits have finished. The 'Backrooms: Everything Must Go Edition' began screening in the United States on July 3, 2026.
Backrooms is scheduled for nationwide release in Japan on September 4, 2026, and a 16-minute bonus feature, Backrooms: Everything Must Go Edition, will also be screened in theaters.
Released nationwide on September 4th (Friday) | Movie 'Backrooms' Official Trailer - YouTube
The title, 'Everything Must Go,' means 'clearance sale,' and is also used as a sales slogan at the furniture store run by Clark, the protagonist of the film version. 'Everything Must Go' is presented as an investigation record from the Async Research Institute dated June 18, 1990, in which researchers examine signs and furniture bearing the words 'Everything Must Go' that appear in the backrooms. Although the footage was produced for the film, the structure of following the investigation record is similar to the original YouTube series.
While the film version became a large-scale commercial production using elaborate sets, the production method for 'Everything Must Go' is quite similar to the techniques Parsons used during his YouTube days. Parsons explained that he created the additional footage in just under two weeks using Blender on his laptop, and said that he was able to deliver footage created using the same production process as his YouTube works to a large-scale venue like a movie theater.
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