8 films inspired by weird, spooky internet lore

With Kane Parson’s Backrooms sweeping up at the box office, we’ve assembled a list of films that similarly mine weird, wonderful, and dark corners of the internet – we promise there’s some treasure among the trash

8 films inspired by weird, spooky internet lore
Backrooms (2026) still

Backrooms is not – and never has been – something that I think about as an internet trend or a meme,” director Kane Parsons told Dazed back in 2024, when he was just getting started on the feature-length A24 adaptation of his wildly successful YouTube series. “It’s just a story I genuinely care about, with characters I genuinely carehellip;

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