Hollywood Is Desperate For The Next Backrooms As Studios Buy Up Film Rights To More Creepy Online Media
Kotaku | 03.07.2026 00:30The Backrooms caught a lot of people in Hollywood by surprise when it arrived in theaters and made over $330 million worldwide on a tiny budget. The massive box office success of the big-screen adaptation of the popular YouTube horror series has seemingly kicked off a buying spree across Hollywood as studios are bidding over creepy internet culture in a desperate rush to produce the next Backrooms-like super hit.
