Leading into the release of Backrooms , rumors circulated that the A24 film’s director, 20-year-old Kane Parsons, possibly didn’t direct this, his feature-length debut. The logic leap is understandable; there is a heavyweight group of producers on the project that includes some of the bigger names in modern horror, including James Wan’s Atomic Monster ( M3GAN , The Counjuring franchise), Shawn Levy’s 21 Laps ( Stranger Things , Never Let Go ), and Osgood Perkins ( Longlegs ) among them. The thought that there would be so many “chefs” in the Backrooms kitchen that Parsons would be relegated to sous chef cracked me up, as he spent the past four years creating the 22-video ‘Backrooms’ YouTube series that became the backbone of the feature-legnth film. If anything, Parsons was more prepared for delivering this than anything else in his life. Currently sitting at over 25 million views, Parsons’s Backrooms YouTube series brought the viral 2019 creepypasta to (digital) life.…