You can take the director out of YouTube, but you can't take YouTube out of the director, as content creator turned filmmaker Kane Parsons says he edited his upcoming Backrooms extended cut like one of his YouTube projects.
"I had a lot of fun making Everything Must Go. The whale thing was made in just under two weeks. All Blender on my laptop. Only finished it like three days ago," said Parsons over on Discord, since posted on Twitter. "Super cool being able to follow the YouTube pipeline but have it delivered at such a ludicrously huge scale."
Not many big-screen movies have additional footage edited on a laptop, but Parsons is quite capable of whipping up something off the cuff, as he has shown over on his YouTube channel, KanePixels, which boasts 3.45 million subscribers. In fact, it was Parsons who made the legendary Backrooms web series based on the creepypasta story about scary liminal spaces, which in turn inspired the young director's first feature film.
The extended cut includes 15 minutes of extra content after the credits roll, pushing the movie over the 2 hours and 6 minutes mark, compared to the original 1 hour and 51 minute runtime. Parsons added that he started working on Backrooms: Everything Must Go Edition after Backrooms had already hit screens.
We can guess that Backrooms' extremely impressive theatrical run is what prompted Parsons to make the extended cut. After hitting screens on May 29, Backrooms surpassed all expectations, opening to $81.4 million at the US box office against a $10 million budget. The film has so far earned over $330 million worldwide and holds an impressive 87% on Rotten Tomatoes.
Backrooms: Everything Must Go Edition is out in US theaters now, available at Emagine Entertainment, Regal Cinemas, and more. For more, check out our guide to all the upcoming horror movies heading our way.
