LA Times Kane Parsons Interview + Cast Images

LA Times has published an interview with Kane Parsons. In the interview Kane talks about – amongst other things – his early development not just as a film-maker but also as a person. It’s an insightful look at the person who is bringing Backrooms to the big screen for the first time.

“My brain’s not 25 yet — it’s not fully developed,” he says. “I feel it works OK right now. I always wish it would work better. Something about the YouTube series worked for people and my brain somehow caused that YouTube series to exist. If I can use that same part of my brain like a human emotional machine resulting in something that works for people with this film, then that means I’m doing my job correctly.”

Kane also echoes the thoughts of many of us Backrooms fans, in that he too wants to explore this space. For many of us, it’s not just the horror that it is more known for. But it’s also a place of fascination and awe. Visit any Backrooms community online and you’ll come across posts that are similar to what Kane says in the interview.

“Like, I want to walk down this space,” he says. “It was as simple as that in the beginning.”

Why do so many people want to roam these hallways? Parsons has thoughts, describing the pull as “a present that is weaponizing the past, using nostalgia as a trap or a lure.” And that, he says, speaks to people of his generation.

Kane also takes the time to clarify that he is not planning to claim ownership of the Backrooms concept.

“People love to manufacture the drama of pretending that I’m claiming it,” Parsons says. “I would never in a million years do something like that.”

He truly is the ideal person to be taking this to the big screen. The Backrooms as a shared universe and as a concept is something that belongs to no one, but many people can create and expand on. Kane embraces this. As does Black August, the writer of the original text.

Read the Interview:

• LA Times Kane Parsons Interview
  Kane Parsons is 20. Here’s how he made A24’s biggest summer movie, the spooky ‘Backrooms’

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^{Photo credits: Jason Armond / Los Angeles Times}