Is YouTube the new Hollywood? Backrooms is one of two films made by a Gen-Z YouTuber which hit the big screen in May, and both were smash hits. Some say we’re witnessing a paradigm shift in how cinema is made.
Backrooms: From bedroom to big screen
Back(room) to the future: When teenage filmmaker Kane Parsons uploaded a short VFX video to YouTube in 2022, he transformed the internet’s favourite urban legend into a sprawling, Hollywood-bound sci-fi universe.