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Backrooms
A suffocating journey into an endless yellow purgatory. The film weaves creeping liminal dread with profound human regret as a vast, buzzing corporate maze swallows reality whole.
Backrooms
Backrooms

"See how far it goes."

27 May 2026 United States of America 111 min 6.8 (980)

Director: Kane Parsons

Cast: Chiwetel Ejiofor, Renate Reinsve, Mark Duplass, Finn Bennett, Lukita Maxwell

Mystery Science Fiction Horror Nostalgia and Liminality The Architecture of Despair Trauma and Dissociation Human Connection vs. the Infinite Void
Budget: $10,000,000
Box Office: $366,424,047

Backrooms — Characters & Cast

Character Analysis

Clark

Chiwetel Ejiofor

Archetype: Tragic Victim / The Explorer Key Trait: Obsessive

Motivation

To find meaning, an escape from his failures as an architect, and to comprehend the impossible glitch in reality.

Character Arc

Clark transitions from a struggling, depressed store owner to a man obsessed with a dimensional anomaly, ultimately succumbing to the madness of the very architecture he sought to understand.

Dr. Mary Kline

Renate Reinsve

Archetype: The Rescuer / Hero Key Trait: Empathetic

Motivation

Driven by professional duty, guilt, and a genuine, desperate desire to save her patient from the abyss.

Character Arc

Starting as a grounded professional analyzing Clark's apparent delusions, Mary is forced to confront the impossible, evolving into a courageous survivor navigating an alien dimension.

Phil

Mark Duplass

Archetype: The Knowledge Keeper Key Trait: Pragmatic

Motivation

Scientific curiosity masked by corporate duty and a need to contain the anomaly.

Character Arc

As a researcher for the Async Institute, Phil serves as a bridge between the scientific reality of the Backrooms and the terrifying unknown, ultimately grappling with the moral weight of their discoveries.

Cast

Chiwetel Ejiofor as Clark
Renate Reinsve as Mary
Mark Duplass as Phil
Finn Bennett as Bobby
Lukita Maxwell as Kat
Avan Jogia as Naren Warne
Robert Bobroczkyi as Pirate Clark
Ember Ambrose as Young Mary
Krista Kosonen as Nora
Philip Granger as Meterman
Katharine Isabelle as Robin
Peter New as Big Wayne
Sarah Hayward as Nurse
Natalie Moon as Phil's Wife
Calix Fraser as Phil's Child

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