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Backrooms

2026 · 111 min · Horror / Mystery / Science Fiction · TMDB 7.0

3/5ScaryFound footagePsychologicalSci-fi horrorSurreal & dreamlikeBody horrorCreature feature

The short version:A found-footage horror built on slow dread rather than jump scares, using surreal liminal atmosphere to create unease. Contains graphic violence, psychological torture, body horror, and explores themes of mental breakdown and unresolved personal trauma with no catharsis."

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Scare profile

Editorial baseline. Add your own report to refine it.

Scary3
Not scaryExtreme
Dread4
RelaxedSuffocating
Jump scares2
NoneConstant
Disturbing4
ForgettableHaunts you
Grim4
Fun ridePunishing
Synopsis

A strange doorway appears in the basement of a furniture showroom.

What is in it

Intensity: brief means implied, off-screen or a single moment; heavy means graphic, prolonged or central. Items marked “inferred from keywords” come from TMDB tags and have not been confirmed by a person.

Violence & gore

  • Graphic goreModerate0 reports
    Details (may spoil)
    • A character's severed head is discovered in a refrigerator.
  • Realistic, grounded violenceModerate0 reports
    Details (may spoil)
    • A character is killed by an unseen entity; another character is choked unconscious.
  • TortureModerate0 reports
    Details (may spoil)
    • A character is kidnapped, tied to a chair, and psychologically tormented by another character.

Children & pregnancy

  • Child abuseBriefinferred from keywords

Body & medical

  • Body horrorModerate0 reports
    Details (may spoil)
    • Humanoid creatures made of edible substance and a grotesquely distorted figure attack characters.

Mental health & grief

  • Mental illnessModerate0 reports
    Details (may spoil)
    • A character descends into apparent psychosis, delusion, and violence.
  • Addiction & drugsBrief0 reports
  • Grief & bereavementBrief0 reports

Phobias & sensory

  • Claustrophobia & confinementModerate0 reports
    Details (may spoil)
    • Characters are trapped in endless corridors; one is tied to a chair in an inescapable extradimensional space.
  • Shaky cam & found footageModerateinferred from keywords