{"id":369492,"date":"2026-05-27T12:20:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-27T19:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/es\/?p=419125"},"modified":"2026-05-27T12:20:21","modified_gmt":"2026-05-27T19:20:21","slug":"he-was-only-20-years-old-when-he-directed-backrooms-and-rumors-say-its-all-a-marketing-strategy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/he-was-only-20-years-old-when-he-directed-backrooms-and-rumors-say-its-all-a-marketing-strategy\/","title":{"rendered":"He was only 20 years old when he directed &#039;Backrooms&#039;&#8230; and rumors say it&#039;s all a marketing strategy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.softonic.com\/articulos\/a24-hara-una-serie-sobre-el-fenomeno-de-terror-que-ha-atrapado-a-todo-internet-los-backrooms\" title=\"\">Backrooms<\/a> premieres this Friday in the United States, and it is already one of the most anticipated horror films of the year. Partly because it is based on a YouTube phenomenon, partly because it looks frankly amazing, and partly because <strong>its director, Kane Parsons, turned 20 during the filming<\/strong>. We are not exactly overflowing with new talent, and it should be a cause for joy that a talented young person prefers to make films rather than TikToks, but of course, the world has not wanted to accept it so easily. <\/p>\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Guaranteed bad vibes<\/h2>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Rumors say that Parsons, who created a whole mythology about the backrooms for years on YouTube, was not the director of the movie and had someone directing for him, but Mark Duplass, one of the stars, <strong>has come to his defense on Twitter against a user who claimed that the young man was not in charge<\/strong> of the movie.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>&#8220;Mmmmmh, with all due respect, I don&#8217;t remember seeing you on set. When I was there, <strong>Kane had it under control 100%. More than many directors who are three times his age<\/strong>&#8220;<\/em>. Apparently, the person claiming that Parsons did not direct the film was an &#8220;expert&#8221; who knew that no executive would give 10 million to a 20-year-old, as if A24 and Paramount were the same thing.<\/p>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Backrooms | Official Trailer HD | A24\" width=\"840\" height=\"473\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/0HjdiohVOik?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In the same vein, Sophy Romvari, a film director, has stated that <em>&#8220;<strong>Jealousy drives many of these discourses about age and success<\/strong>. I can confidently say that I am very happy to have made my first film at 34 and not at 20, I am much better now&#8221;<\/em>. In any case, whether haters like it or not, Backrooms seems set to premiere in a big way, surpassing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.softonic.com\/articulos\/hideo-kojima-ha-ido-a-ver-the-mandalorian-and-grogu-y-su-opinion-esta-mas-que-clara-todo-contra-todo\" title=\"\">The Mandalorian and Grogu<\/a> at the box office and delivering one of the big surprises of the year. Something is changing in Hollywood, fortunately.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Backrooms premieres this Friday in the United States, and it is already one of the most anticipated horror movies of the year. Partly because it is based on a YouTube phenomenon, partly because it looks frankly great, and partly because its director, Kane Parsons, turned 20 during filming. We are not exactly overflowing with new talent, and it should be a reason for joy that a talented kid prefers to make movies instead of TikToks, but of course, the world has not wanted to accept it so easily. Guaranteed bad vibes. Rumors say that Parsons, who created an entire mythology about the [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9263,"featured_media":369497,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wpcf-pageviews":0},"categories":[1015],"tags":[5975,26268],"usertag":[],"vertical":[],"content-category":[],"class_list":["post-369492","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-a24","tag-backrooms"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369492","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9263"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=369492"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369492\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":369500,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369492\/revisions\/369500"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/369497"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=369492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=369492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=369492"},{"taxonomy":"usertag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/usertag?post=369492"},{"taxonomy":"vertical","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vertical?post=369492"},{"taxonomy":"content-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-category?post=369492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}