Young audiences turned out in droves to movie theaters around the country this weekend to watch a small-budget horror from a 20-year-old first-time filmmaker that began on the internet. “Backrooms,” released by A24 in 3,442 locations in the U.S. and Canada, made an astonishing $81.5 million in its

Young audiences turned out in droves to movie theaters around the country this weekend to watch a small-budget horror from a 20-year-old first-time filmmaker that began on the internet. “Backrooms,” released by A24 in 3,442 locations in the U.S. and Canada, made an astonishing $81.5 million in its

This weekend, A24’s “Backrooms,” from 20-year-old YouTuber Kane Parsons, grossed a record-breaking $81.4 million in North America, shattering the record for the largest opening ever for a first-time director with an original film. The trend points to a new force in indie horror: YouTubers and onlin