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The Backrooms

★ 7.9 6K votes 2022–present 1 season · 23 episodes
UnsettlingA creeping sense of unease and wrongness that gets under your skin.This show: 10/10AtmosphericMood and place thick enough to touch.This show: 9/10Mounting dreadThe pleasure is in the slowly mounting fear.This show: 8/10ExperimentalFormally adventurous television that breaks the rules.This show: 7/10Psychological horrorFear that comes from the mind: paranoia, sanity, perception.This show: 7/10Mystery boxCentral riddles sustained across whole seasons.This show: 7/10Visually strikingComposition and imagery worth pausing for.This show: 7/10TenseSustained suspense and pressure from start to finish.This show: 7/10
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Starring
Kane ParsonsAakash ValdiviaArthur LanglieNathan BarnattHenry GreberBen Gurvis
Written by
Kane Parsons
Starring
Kane ParsonsAakash ValdiviaArthur LanglieNathan BarnattHenry GreberBen Gurvis
Written by
Kane Parsons
Ratings per Episode
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Votes per Episode
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About

"Viral internet horror turned unsettling found-footage saga"

Based on the internet's "backrooms" creepypasta, this found-footage series follows people who accidentally slip out of normal reality into an endless maze of empty, fluorescent-lit rooms that shouldn't exist. What starts as one unsettling short expands into an ongoing mythology of monitored facilities, hostile entities, and characters trying to survive or escape. The vibe is queasy and atmospheric rather than jump-scare heavy, built on unnervingly mundane visuals turned wrong. Production values are impressively cinematic for its scrappy, DIY origins, though the expanding lore asks for patience as episodes lean more serialized.

Watch it for

the eerily convincing liminal-space visuals that turn boring architecture into genuine dread.

Maybe skip if

you want tight standalone scares rather than a slowly expanding, sometimes uneven mythology.

Written by our AI editor to help you decide, spoiler-free by design.

All Seasons

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Season 1
7.410K233h 7m
EpTitleRatingYoursVotesRuntime
▶1The Backrooms (Found Footage)7.8
2K9 min
▶2Mar11_90_ARCHIVE.tar6.3
2423 min
▶3The Third Test6.4
5362 min
▶4First Contact6.9
5052 min
▶5Missing Persons7.3
4953 min
▶6Autopsy Report7.0
4593 min
▶7Informational Video7.7
4778 min
▶8Motion Detected7.5
4494 min
▶9Prototype6.1
4372 min
▶10Pitfalls8.6
59014 min
▶11Report6.8
4116 min
▶1297804152635736.6
2131 min
▶13Presentation7.3
4048 min
▶14_recording0146.3
1873 min
▶15Found Footage #28.3
48713 min
▶16home_27647.mov6.4
1903 min
▶17Reunion8.0
39513 min
▶18Damage Control7.7
37514 min
▶19Overflow6.2
3652 min
▶20Lighting and Tile Survey6.8
3159 min
▶21Found Footage #38.4
47245 min
▶22Static Dead End6.9
2964 min
▶23Everything Must Go8.0
9816 min

Full Cast & Crew

Cast

Kane Parsons Scientists, Async Worker, Boy
Aakash Valdivia Guy with Monkey Mask, Ravi
Arthur Langlie Biochemist
Nathan Barnatt Nicholas Bolton (Young; on Photograph)
Henry Greber Matesse Aaron (Film Director)
Ben Gurvis Monster (V.O.)
Okleshen Nicholas Bolton's Corpse (3D Scan)
Blane Solis Sound Guy
Lavender Protagonist
Michael Parsons Clyde

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