There is a debate going on right now about whether an unrated upload of Obsession has a few seconds of new footage or not after today’s VOD release (it apparently does not), but Backrooms, the other enormous horror hit of 2026, is doing something way, way different in terms of adding more to the film.
It’s just been announced that a new version of Backrooms is heading to theaters over Fourth of July weekend, even as the “normal” version is still playing now. It’s called Backrooms: Everything Must Go Edition, which, at least to some extent, sounds like a Director’s Cut. It will feature a “theatrically exclusive” post-credit scene and 15 more minutes of footage, bringing the movie to 2 hours and 6 minutes.
The idea is to keep squeezing money out of Backrooms for as long as possible before its streaming VOD release, though the film has already grossed $330 million worldwide on a $10 million budget, making it both hugely profitable and A24’s biggest hit ever.
There is, of course, about 2-3 more hours of Backrooms footage you can watch if you want. Not an extended cut of the movie, but the expansive YouTube series that spawned it, which is how it became a viral sensation. The videos range from 1 to 45 minutes. There are some lore differences from the movie, and the film actually evolves some of the original concepts, but if you like the movie and did not experience the original, almost all of it is absolutely worth watching, particularly the three longer Found Footage videos. The original video that started all this now has 88 million views:
Backrooms 2 is already in development with now 21-year-old creator and director Kane Parsons returning. The first film will hit VOD streaming days after this re-release over the holiday on June 7, available for rental and purchase on platforms like Amazon Prime Video and Apple TV. That will come just a week after Obsession. That film is still #3 at the box office at any given day, while Backrooms is #6, both adding to their totals ahead of a final haul.
In the wake of both films’ enormous success based on the creative prowess of YouTubers, Hollywood is now on the hunt for more potential features like these, plus both of them potentially expanding into “universes,” of course, from here. For now, maybe there’s a preview of things to come with the new Backrooms footage, though that 15 minutes seems like it will be available at home as well at some point, even if its post-credit scene will not. Though that will almost certainly show up on YouTube somewhere the day it’s released.
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