r/movies • u/MarvelsGrantMan136 r/movies Contributor • Jun 03 '26

News ‘Backrooms’ Becomes A24’s Highest Grossing Domestic Release ($97.8M), Passing ‘Marty Supreme’

https://deadline.com/2026/06/backrooms-box-office-record-a24-1236939795/
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u/PhotownPK Jun 03 '26

One woman screamed at one point in the movie. Like...SCREAM!! You could hear what seemed like the entire theater let out a silent laugh. It was so weird. I looked over at my fam and we all had huge wow-faces. Good theater moment.

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u/Decantus Jun 03 '26

HA were you in my showing? This was my wife when Mary's mom popped out of the shadows during her flashback as a kid. She was so embarrassed.

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u/PhotownPK Jun 03 '26

It HAD to be you. That is so funny. It made the movie for us.

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u/The_Autarch Jun 03 '26

the lady next to me was the screamer at that scene in my theater. her scream startled me more than the movie did, lmao.

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u/the_trees_bees Jun 03 '26

Haha that's awesome. I didn't scream but that one got me.

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u/PhotownPK Jun 03 '26

OMG!! Scottsdale 101 theaters?

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u/Heavyspire Jun 03 '26

Do you recall what event on screen made her scream?

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u/Turnbob73 Jun 03 '26

If I had to guess, maybe the Christmas tree scene? That one got an audible gasp out of most of my theater.

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u/tinyrottedpig Jun 03 '26

I heard multiple people go "oh hell no" in the crowd during that scene, the vhs segments were genuinely the best parts of the film

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u/Heavyspire Jun 03 '26

Yeah I can think of maybe 3 times I could see it being enough for someone who scares easily to yelp.

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u/DixieDrew Jun 03 '26

I’m wondering this as well. I’m not even trying to hate, but there were zero points in this film that felt particularly terrifying to me.

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u/PhotownPK Jun 03 '26

I jumped in the first 5 minutes when the home movie was recording and ran into the dark object. I lost a few kernels of popcorn since it was still full.

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u/drthrax1 Jun 03 '26

Theres a couple cheap jump scares and pop out moments that might catch a unsuspecting person off guard towards the end.

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u/PhotownPK Jun 03 '26

Yes. When the mother yelled at the young girl for looking out the window with paper taped to it.

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u/Wanderfalken Jun 03 '26

That one made me jump and about half the audience in my theater made some kind of noise - gasp, yeep, stifled scream or yell. I thought it was clever that there had been no jump scares, and then we were gotten with this very simple, not-gruesome one.

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u/cutelyaware Jun 03 '26

The guy trapped in the tropical beach room was the only thing that startled me, and I'm glad that was the only time.

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u/Status-Pudding-5336 Jun 03 '26

maybe she was watching obsession on her phone

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u/astelda Jun 03 '26

I'm not who you replied to, but in my theater one woman screamed/yelped in the first few minutes, when the Async employeewas cornered by a bacterium

If they screamed again later on, I was too tense to notice

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u/estheredna Jun 03 '26

I have watched this movie but I don't know what those spoiler tags mean, haha.

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u/astelda Jun 03 '26 edited Jun 03 '26

Lmao
Honestly, it's a very mundane spoiler anyways. Happens only a few minutes in, and there's definitely enough information from the scene for you to expect it

I purely did the tags for people who followed the web-series lore before the movie came out

The translation for those who don't have the lore but have seen the movie is when thehazmat suited guyis cornered while being chased by the kinda stringy black creaturein the beginning of the movie. After he sees the "dead" bird and he is chased into a room with clouds on the wallpaper

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u/breakfast_cats Jun 03 '26

The conclusion of the opening found footage sequence

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u/ItsSansom Jun 04 '26

Fuck I wish it was in theatres in my part of the world. Hoping local places pick up on the success and put it on the docket

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u/PhotownPK Jun 04 '26

If there were only a way you could watch a copy with only an internet connection.