Top 5 Things You Need to Know About the Backrooms Rotten Tomatoes Score
- Critics are treating the new A24-style Backrooms film like a horror masterpiece, scoring a shocking 92% on Rotten Tomatoes, but audience reactions are a completely different story.
- The movie abandons jump scares for pure, sensory dread—one reviewer called it "the liminal space equivalent of a panic attack," which explains why it's getting compared to classic psychological thrillers.
- Fans of the original internet lore are furious, claiming the film "missed the point" of the backrooms being a creepy, mundane hell, leading to a surprisingly low 58% audience score on the same platform.
- The secret to its critical success? A visual effects team that literally created the backrooms using 100% practical sets and real, unsettling angles—no CGI shortcuts.
- The biggest plot twist actually happens in the marketing: the film's creators leaked a secret "level 4" ending online that only makes sense if you've seen the movie twice, sparking a viral thread and boosting Rotten Tomatoes traffic by 400%.