5 Best Backrooms Episodes To Watch After the Movie, Ranked by How Scary They Are

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What started as a creepy internet story, the Backrooms, has quickly become a major movie success. Director Kane Parsons, who created the popular Backrooms web series, has become the youngest filmmaker ever to top the box office charts. The movie earned an impressive $118 million worldwide in its first weekend and has been well-received by both critics and audiences. Thanks to the film’s popularity, the Backrooms story and its history are now widely known, and many new fans are discovering the original web series that started it all.

There are two main threads to the Backrooms web series: Standalone encounters that different people have with being “clipped out” of reality and falling into the mysterious realm, where they must escape and/or survive. The other is a serialized story arc that chronicles the Async Research Institute’s explorations into the Backrooms, and the corporate espionage invovled with it. While the Async lore does help widen the scope of the Backrooms movie, it also makes some of the videos harder to understand. But here are 5 chapters of the Backrooms web series that will definitely satisfy you just like the movie did, ranked by how scary they are.

5. “Reunion”

“Reunion” really builds on the story established in the Async series, and it cleverly revisits the famous room with the square holes in the floor from the previous video, “Pitfalls.” While it’s not quite as frightening as “Pitfalls,” it’s best to watch “Reunion” after “Pitfalls” to fully understand the connections.

In the story “Reunion,” the Asyc team starts building walkways to help everyone safely cross the dangerous pits in Room 14D. At the same time, a team of three explores a nearby room – a huge, dark space filled with large columns. While navigating the darkness, the three explorers are suddenly attacked, but by something completely unexpected.

Okay, so this story happens right in the middle of the Asyc storyline, but it’s a really important part! It dives into what being stuck in the Backrooms for a long time does to people’s minds, and that’s how they create actual human villains alongside the creepy entities. If you’ve seen the Backrooms movie, you’ll recognize this idea – it’s a similar concept, so that movie is a good way to understand what’s going on here.

4. “Pitfalls”

This is a good starting point for understanding the Async research team and their experiences in the Backrooms. The story begins after Async successfully opens a gateway—called the “Threshold”—into a section of the Backrooms known as “The Complex.” While exploring and mapping The Complex, a survey team discovers a room with a floor covered in dark, rectangular holes. The team’s cameraman accidentally falls into one of these holes and finds himself in a previously unseen part of the Backrooms. He encounters strange, distorted locations, such as a suburban street bathed in red light, and is then pursued by a pale, screaming creature.

“Pitfalls” expertly combines the self-contained “Found Footage” stories from Backrooms with the broader Async universe. The video’s dreamlike environments are especially impressive, and the creature shown at the end is genuinely terrifying. It’s a great starting point for anyone new to the series.

3. “Found Footage #2”

If you’re only going to watch one Backrooms video to get a feel for the series, “Fount Footage #2” is a great place to start. It’s one of the first videos made in 2022, so the production quality is simple, but it really highlights the director, Parsons’, early talent and potential.

This video shows a young woman finding a tiny doorway to the Backrooms in her garage. While recording it, she’s pulled inside and finds herself lost in a confusing maze of strangely stretched-out, partially furnished rooms. She eventually reaches a large, visually impressive space that’s become iconic in the series. The video ends with a thrilling chase from one of the Backrooms’ creatures – complete with a good scare – and a conclusion that fans are still trying to understand and discuss.

2. “Found Footage #3”

Kane Parsons created a web series that ran throughout 2022. He released one final video in January 2023 before taking a break from making Backrooms content. Then, in the fall of 2024, he returned with a new series, beginning with a 45-minute video – his longest to date – called “Found Footage #3”. This new video demonstrated both his development as a filmmaker and an increase in his production resources.

So, the third ‘Found Footage’ video really grabbed me. It follows a guy named Ravi who ends up in the Backrooms after checking out a weird sound in his basement. What’s cool is that Ravi’s journey through the Backrooms is the longest we’ve seen so far, and he explores some seriously fascinating spaces. It starts with him basically glitching out of his basement and into this massive office building – or maybe an apartment complex – and it hints at a really interesting idea: that the Backrooms aren’t just random places, but warped, twisted versions of real-world locations like offices and suburbs. Instead of monsters, you have these creepy, distorted human-like ‘copies’ wandering around. Plus, this video has what I think is the most genuinely terrifying chase scene in the whole series, and the ending? Man, it’s bleak and really sticks with you. Honestly, it feels like a pretty complete and satisfying conclusion to Ravi’s story.

1. “The Backrooms (Found Footage)”

It’s hard to top the first one! In early 2022, Kane Parsons created a short film based on a myth that started on online forums like 4Chan. This film quickly turned the ‘Backrooms’ concept into a viral sensation. Despite simple visuals, the original short is a great example of bringing an idea to life. It begins in a realistic setting with teenagers filming a movie, then unexpectedly shifts when the camera operator seemingly glitches and finds himself in the eerie world of the Backrooms.

Parsons effectively establishes the world and its rules, culminating in a surprising reveal of a monster—or ‘entity.’ While the first episode is fairly simple in terms of production quality, and the initial entity design appears quite basic now considering the series’ later development, it still contained all the necessary elements to build a larger story, including hints of time travel introduced in the finale.

The movie Backrooms is now showing in cinemas! You can watch the original web series here. Join the conversation about the film and this exciting year for horror on the ComicBook Forum!

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2026-06-02 00:13