'I'm Blown Away' — Hideo Kojima Can't Get Enough of Kane Parsons' Backrooms Movie

Hideo Kojima had precocious praise for Kane Parsons’ Backrooms, remarking connected however the movie reminded him of the maze-like maps and polygonal look of aboriginal video games.

21-year-old Kane Parsons made a beardown directorial debut with Backrooms, which released to captious acclaim and broke respective records connected merchandise successful May 2026.

The liminal fearfulness flick adapted the fashionable online creepypasta of the aforesaid name, which archetypal surfaced connected 4chan and has since spiraled into a community-driven inaugural with aggregate subgenres, video games, abbreviated films, and overmuch more.

Famed crippled manager and noted cinephile Hideo Kojima has present gotten astir to watching it, and near a glowing reappraisal of the movie connected his English societal media relationship that gives readers immoderate penetration into what the aboriginal days of crippled improvement were like.

In his post, Kojima said helium was “blown away” by the movie and described Backrooms arsenic “a satellite wherever nostalgia and novelty onslaught you successful the signifier of ‘art,’” saying it reminds him of “pseudo-3D games from the 2D era, backmost successful the dawn of RPGs and the Family Computer (NES), earlier polygons and textures existed.”

“Simulated 3D spaces built from looping, repetitive visuals: integer labyrinths unconstrained by the rules of architecture. I utilized to gully maps connected graph insubstantial conscionable to support way of wherever I was. That consciousness of confinement. That feeling of anxiety. Both are revived present successful unrecorded action. The creation absorption is clever, incorporating elements of art, architecture, and psychology. This is simply a 21st-century liminal-space mentation of ‘CUBE,’ a enactment of surrealism and cubism successful which video games of the 1980s and the modern satellite link crossed dimensions.”

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Kojima’s absorption to Backrooms has spawned nary extremity of some jokes and heartfelt responses from fans, with 1 writing, “I deliberation you and Kane Parsons would person a batch to speech about.”

“You cognize what you indispensable do: scan Kane Parsons,” different joked, referencing Kojima’s penchant for scanning actors into his games similar Death Stranding and the upcoming OD.

Thus far, Parsons hasn’t responded to Kojima’s comments connected Backrooms. However, helium precocious spoke retired aft fans reported that their artwork was getting transcript striked connected behalf of A24 connected platforms similar RedBubble. Parsons spoke with the workplace and the strikes were released, saying A24 has “been insistent since time 1 connected keeping the assemblage protected, arsenic it ever has been.”

Backrooms’ occurrence has besides opened doors for different creepypasta-inspired films, with movies for Siren Head, Cartoon Cat, and the Mandela Catalogue getting greenlit.

Image Credits: Rosdiana Ciaravolo/Getty Images, A24/Kane Parsons

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