Cross-media recommendations across film, TV, games, books & music — picked by taste.
Backrooms follows Clark, a furniture store owner, and Mary, his therapist, who discover a dimension of seemingly endless liminal spaces hidden beneath the store's basement. Adapted from Kane Parsons' web series and the Backrooms creepypasta, the film treats architecture itself as horror — corridors that stretch without logic, spaces that shouldn't exist but do. Viewers drawn to this will find the same unease in any story where a room, a threshold, or an enclosed space becomes the source of genuine dread.
Backrooms is a 2026 American science fiction psychological horror film directed and co-scored by Kane Parsons and written by Will Soodik. It is based on Parsons' web series and inspired by the "Backrooms" creepypasta. In the film, Clark, a furniture store owner, and Mary, his therapist, discover a dimension of seemingly endless liminal spaces accessed through the store's basement. Mark Duplass, Finn Bennett, and Lukita Maxwell also star.
From the Wikipedia article Backrooms_(film), available under CC BY-SA.
Series
Darkroom
An anthology of horror vignettes exploring unease through contained, self-enclosed narrative chambers.
Series
Blue Box Briefing
Locked-room mysteries unfold in tightly bounded spaces where the setting itself constrains and pressures the characters.
Series
The Lost Room
A motel room acting as a portal to an alternate universe echoes the same premise of ordinary space breaching into elsewhere.
Series
Inside No. 9
Every episode's single marked door hides a darkly twisted tale, making the threshold itself the narrative engine.
Series
It
A shape-shifting entity exploiting fear across decades shares the film's sense of something alien and boundless lurking beneath the surface.
Series
One Room
Intimate stories contained entirely within a single room, where the space defines the characters' entire world.
Game
Escape the Backrooms
Procedurally generated corridors drawn directly from the same internet folklore that inspired the film, with entities to evade.
Game
Inside the Backrooms
Co-op survival across multiple backrooms levels, solving puzzles to escape the same liminal labyrinth the film depicts.
Game
Resident evil 7 Banned Footage Vol.1
Trapped in a basement full of unknown horrors, players fight to survive in the same claustrophobic register as the film.
Game
Doorways: Prelude
A first-person episodic horror adventure delivering complex story and deep atmosphere across each chapter.
Game
Backrooms: Escape Together
Researchers plunge into the most dangerous backrooms levels after a malfunction traps them in the same liminal labyrinth.
Game
Silent Hill 4: The Room
A man trapped in his apartment finds that the only exit opens into a horrifying alternate reality rather than the normal world.
Book
Strange Seed
A newlywed woman in an isolated farmhouse watches her husband grow increasingly withdrawn as something encroaches from outside.
Book
The house without a door
A woman who sealed herself away for decades emerges to find reality changed utterly around her sealed-off space.
Book
The thing on the doorstep and other weird stories
Weird fiction exploring what waits beyond ordinary thresholds, in the tradition of horror built on architecture and dread.
Book
The room
A bureaucrat's secret room that no colleague acknowledges exists turns the workplace into a study in liminal unreality.
Book
Mall
A mall becomes an enclosed arena where violence escalates — familiar commercial space stripped of its safety.
Book
The basement
Strange deaths converge on a single figure, building a sense of hidden forces operating beneath the surface of the ordinary.
Film
Backrooms (Gorilla Tag Movie)
A man escapes the endless yellow rooms but finds obsession with what lies beyond reality slowly dismantling him.
Film
Cellar Door
A forbidden door in a dream house makes the unknown itself the source of mounting dread.
Film
Room 6
A woman with a hospital phobia must search for her missing boyfriend deep inside one, alongside a stranger in the same predicament.
Film
The Unseen
Three women discover that a home's basement conceals something that should not be encountered at all.
Film
Crawlspace
An unseen presence lurking inside the walls of a house turns domestic space into a siege environment.
Film
Psych:9
Night-shift isolation in a shuttered hospital warps a woman's sense of what is real and what threatens her.
Fans of the film's liminal-space dread will enjoy The Lost Room, a TV miniseries about a detective who discovers a motel room that opens into an alternate universe, and Cellar Door, a thriller built around a single forbidden space.
Yes — Escape the Backrooms and Inside the Backrooms both let you explore procedurally generated liminal levels, while Silent Hill 4: The Room delivers a similar sense of being trapped in a nightmarish alternate reality through a mysterious portal.
The Room follows a bureaucrat who discovers a secret room that no one else will acknowledge — the same quiet wrongness and institutional uncanniness at the heart of Backrooms. The House Without a Door offers a related theme of a woman sealed off from the world.