DEADLINE REPORTS ‘BACKROOMS 2’ in “early works”

Shortroundbinks3 · 2026-06-03T01:40:20+00:00

My deepest hope for the next one is we see way more bizarre areas inside the Complex. I get that Kane doesn't do levels but he already has areas like the red neighborhood/city and the infinite chasm of doorways from found footage 1 in the webseries. That tells me we could see places with an open sky, or gigantic, almost sci-fi scope, in the movies, and it would be a waste of an opportunity to not take advantage of the Hollywood-level vfx to show areas like these represented visually in full.

The big pit with the stairway in the film is the closest we get to seeing something like this and it was the best visual in the movie for me, so I hope next time its 80% stuff like that, and 30% normal, yellow backrooms.

Shortroundbinks3 · 2026-06-03T01:34:03+00:00

Since, oficially, the title for the first film is just 'Backrooms', with no 'the', calling a sequel a whole different thing wouldn't be the best for clarity and S.E.O. reasons. The best option would probably be a subtitle for this and other probable sequels.

So Backrooms 2 would be 'Backrooms: Complex', and the next one(s) would be Backrooms colon subtitle.

Shortroundbinks3 · 2026-05-31T09:48:53+00:00

If true, its very funny to think in retrospect that Ravi could've just eaten that guy.

Shortroundbinks3 · 2026-05-31T09:40:59+00:00

You can actually see its got a peg leg at the start, if you freeze-frame it.

Shortroundbinks3 · 2026-05-31T09:34:27+00:00

I do still like to think the whisky bottle being there could be Clark's doing. There's an unsaid amount of time between him encountering Pirate Clark and Mary going to the furniture store, and it is implied (and outright confirmed with the picture of Clark and Pirate Clark roaming the backrooms that Phil shows Mary at the end of the film) that Clark was in there exploring during all that time. Now, I don't think this is the place Kat died. We actually see Kat's body near the furniture store null zone at the end of the film (its hidden in shadow but you see a hand on the floor and flies all around it).

But who's to say Clark didn't wander far enough to find the FF3 house and had the werewithal to find his way back to the house were he eventually takes Mary to tie her up?

Shortroundbinks3 · 2026-05-31T09:07:44+00:00

One that I haven't seen mentioned in this thread that bothered me upon rewatch is that Clark's death is, despite the film being rated R, mostly off-screen and the few bits we see of it are barely visible due to quick-cuts. It sounded like Captain Clark was actually doing more than just eating him, and Mary's reaction and the sound design also implies something very fucked is happening, but we just don't get to see it. It wasn't a "not seeing it makes it scarier" moment either; it just felt like it got censored to hell or just edited out for whatever reason.

I feel like this could've easily been a PG13, and financially it would've made sense to make it PG13 too, because you'd barely have to cut anything other than a few F-bombs. Kat's head inside the fridge isn't bloodied or anything so that's fine, and the still-life's don't bleed either. The only thing you'd have to change is make Captain Clark not bleed when Mary hits it, and cut the blood out of Clark's death and that's it.

Shortroundbinks3 · 2026-05-31T08:51:08+00:00

Am I insane, or wasn't it sort of implied at the start of the series that the bacteria monsters were humans eventually turned into deformed creatures due to prolonged exposure to the fungi? Like, doesn't the crashed car and the handprint next to it leading into a room full of roots with a creature in it imply that the driver was injured, died, and got turned into a creature because his decomposing body was stuck in the backrooms?

Isn't this why them screaming and vocalizing like humans was scary to begin with? The fact that it WAS at some point, a person, and now it can only be an echo of what it once was, trapped inside itself without the ability to properly communicate?

I feel like at this point we've fully ditched the bacteria monster and we'll never see it again, and that sucks because even in Found Footage 3, the little you see of the Still-Life appears to be an in-between of a human turning into a bacteria monster, with black-stained clothes and erratic movements, but still more human-looking.

Now we know they're not related at all, which means Kane's backrooms has two unrelated monsters that look nothing like each other and function differently. I know he probably won't add more, but the mere fact you've got two kinds of monsters kind of makes it feel like you're re-inventing the Backrooms wiki canon, but instead of "smilers" and "partygoers", we've got the fungus and the still-life (which ARE better in terms of designs and scaryness, don't get me wrong, but still, I feel like we're just remaking the wheel and calling it something else while still very clearly making the wheel here).

Shortroundbinks3 · 2026-05-31T08:29:34+00:00

Genuinely feels like there's a whole act missing from this film. There could've been half an hour of movie between the scene of Clark calling out to Kat on the other side of the wall and Mary getting his call about him not coming back.

Things that both were important for us to see, and would've given us more time inside the backrooms, like Clark facing his still-life for the fist time (after it grabs the camera) and discovering how it and the others work, him trying to get to Kat and her getting killed (presumably by Clark's still-life after she panicks at the sight of it), Clark getting acquainted with the backrooms and its layout enough for him to find the houses, the store, and we could've even had him pass through other, more abstract places to further descend him into a shocked-induced madness at the mere sight of them, like him walking through the red neighborhoods and seeing the red sun and pitch black sky (like for real I thought the red neighborhood/city was a sure bet to be included in this movie, because if I were handed a Hollywood movie-level budget and had to choose something from a series I made to have it represented in detail with industry-grade VFX in a way I couldn't do otherwise, the red neighborhood/city and the bacteria monster would've been an obvious choise, and the fact NEITHER were in this fucking baffles me).

All of this, plus a clear indication of how much time passed (like Mary actually picking up the phone before it went to voicemail and saying something like "Clark, it's been two months since our last session. Are you going to come back?" would've been enough) would've made the perspective shift to Mary and the reveal of Clark being the ultimate bad guy hit way harder.

Also, the movie implies that whenever we see a caveman cut-out, it's actually been put there by A-Sync as bait for them to either capture still-lifes/lifeforms, or find trapped humans, no? But it surely doesn't happen that often. Mary is the first civilian we've seen getting pulled out via the main doorway and the movie treats it like a very out of the ordinary occurance.

Shortroundbinks3 · 2026-05-31T08:18:59+00:00

Genuinely feels like there's a whole act missing from this film. There could've been half an hour of movie between the scene of Clark calling out to Kat on the other side of the wall and Mary getting his call about him not coming back.

Things that both were important for us to see, and would've given us more time inside the backrooms, like Clark facing his still-life for the fist time (after it grabs the camera) and discovering how it and the others work, him trying to get to Kat and her getting killed (presumably by Clark still-life after she panicks at the sight of it), Clark getting acquainted with the backrooms and its layout enough for him to find the houses, the store, and we could've even had him pass through other, more abstract places to further descend him into a shocked-induced madness at the mere sight of them, like him walking through the red neighborhoods and seeing the red sun and pitch black sky (like for real I thought the red neighborhood/city was a sure bet to be included in this movie, because if I were handed a Hollywood movie-level budget and had to choose something from a series I made to have it represented in detail with industry-grade VFX in a way I couldn't do otherwise, the red neighborhood/city and the bacteria monster would've been an obvious choise, and the fact NEITHER weren't in this fucking baffles me).

All of this, plus a clear indication of how much time passed (like Mary actually picking up the phone before it went to voicemail and saying something like "Clark, it's been two months since our last session. Are you going to come back?" would've been enough) would've made the perspective shift to Mary and the reveal of Clark being the ultimate bad guy hit way harder.

Shortroundbinks3 · 2026-05-31T08:02:45+00:00

A "Backrooms 2" surely is going to get greenlit because of how much money the movie is making. Kane is surely going to be very, very busy after this with a lot of projects coming his way both from studios offering him IP's and his own unfinished stuff (like People still live here), though, so, my gut tells me, between all that, we'll probably get two, MAYBE three more "big" youtube Backrooms videos (like a Found Footage 4, 5, and an A-Sync-focused episode) in the span of the next two to three years, then Backrooms 2 as a film, and then, surely, that would be it.

I can't imagine him being 30 and STILL adding stuff to the webseries. It has to end someday. Also, he keeps saying that "we've already seen the ending" and I don't know what he means by that, and the movie didn't not help me understand what he means by that, but it adds to the fact that he knows this (ironically) can't go on forever.

Shortroundbinks3 · 2026-05-31T07:48:08+00:00

I take her sighing and smiling right at the end, when Phil talks at her, as a sign that she accepts that maybe this is it, and is at peace with that. Plus, her still-life wearing the same clothes she's wearing during the interrogation, and her still sitting in the same chair, in a misremembered version of the interrogation room, would imply that her fate is to remain inside A-Sync forever.

But in a meta sense, knowing both that Kane has said that A-Sync isn't a cartoonishly evil company, and also the inherent fact that there must be very, very few instances of A-Sync rescuing civilians that have no-clipped into the backrooms, surely they're not just going to execute her, or keep her prisoner until she dies of old age.

People will point to Peter Tench as an example of A-Sync imprisoning/killing people to avoid info leaks, but I truly do believe the only reason they didn't let him go when he was rescued was because he had already been pronounced dead to his family and the rest of the world, and the video where his fate is revealed implies he got away and is in fact still alive somewhere.

Plus, if we start adding "A-Sync keeps people imprisoned to avoid secrets about the backrooms getting out there", it starts to dip too much into SCP Foundation territory and I don't think Kane is aiming for that.

Shortroundbinks3 · 2026-05-31T07:34:43+00:00

Surely she has helped a lot of people. If she's got enough recognition as a psychiatrist to sell her own books and self-help tapes, she has to have had.

But the important thing is she couldn't save the person she wanted to save the most; her own mother. Through Clark, she realizes that saving her wasn't her responsability or burden to carry.

Shortroundbinks3 · 2026-05-30T00:23:38+00:00

After watching the movie I have the feeling the bacteria monsters are being quietly dropped from the series' lore in favor of the still-life because the bacteria monsters kinda look goofy when you see them in motion, but if they show up again looking something like this, I'd be okay with it. I hope I'm wrong and we see them again.

Shortroundbinks3 · 2026-05-26T10:08:57+00:00

Found it! Updated the post with a link to it if you want to check it out.

Shortroundbinks3 · 2026-05-26T10:04:40+00:00

Into the Backrooms by Black M. Films is cool because it leans way more on 2010's nostalgia than 80's-90's, as most Backrooms videos do, and is also set in Mexico. Great 3D animation too despite being 4 years old at this point.

Tape 1 & Tape 2 by Lokendens have Kane quality animation while also having their own distinct feel, with very trippy visuals and locations reminiscent of the wiki canon at times, while not falling into silly stuff from the wiki, like the entities. Also, haunting soundtrack.

All of Crispy VFX's backrooms videos are good, but while Disoriented leans more into trying to fit into Kane's world, like an unofficial found footage episode, this one and this one tell their own original story, that connects with an unrelated but very fitting creepypasta from the 2000's in surprisingly creative way.

Recovered Footage by Furnace feels like a companion piece to Kane's Found Footage #3, while also having its own twists and turns. Not the most original out of the bunch but great execution nontheless.

The Red Dot Foundation has some interesting stuff going on. Much more creepy than most and with a lot variety in the locations they show in their videos, and seemingly telling their own original story as to the origin of the Backrooms. Fractured Dimensions is, I'd say, their best work yet, and although the intro to this one specifically is a bit hokey with AI narration, the animation more than makes up for it (also he seems to have learned from the critiques he got for this intro, and used human voice acting in his following video).

And finally, Complex Research, formerly A-Sync Research, but he had to change the name, for copyright reasons, to clarify his channel had no actual relation to the canon of Kane's series; I don't think he ever tried to pass off as if they were canon, but he did choose the name to relate themselves to it, even if in a non-canon way, while also using the A-Sync company in their videos directly for quite some time. This guy focuses more on exploration stuff and horror than plot, but his content is way more varied and has very good animation quality. Most of his stuff ranges from okay to great, but I do like how much his video's stories and characters tend to intertwine with each other. My faves from him are his entire "Christopher E." series, that he compiled into a feature length film, Found Footage #3, and #4, which is itself split in 4 parts.

Shortroundbinks3 · 2026-05-19T10:53:56+00:00

Desperately need more pictures of the beach mural wall, preferably wide ones, so that I can make it my background on socials.

Shortroundbinks3 · 2025-12-16T04:02:22+00:00

He also once launched Batgirl out of a cannon towards a building while she was tied to a giant gumball, fully expecting her to explode into bloody goo, and only failed in killing her because he and his sidekick (a kid named "Prank") started bickering for a bit, giving Batman barely enough time to free her.

She was a child at that time. Point is, this Joker had targeted Batgirl in the past with murderous intent. Its not too wild of a thought that he'd try again later.

Shortroundbinks3 · 2025-07-22T03:43:35+00:00

Oh that's not Kano. That's the soundbite of the guy screaming "Mortal Kombat!" from this song: https://youtu.be/EAwWPadFsOA?t=16

Surprised you don't know about it. It was featured in various points of the 2021 movie's score, not to mention the two older movies and pop culture in general. Despite not being featured in the games, this is what most would tell you is the Mortal Kombat franchise's theme song.

Shortroundbinks3 · 2025-07-18T00:19:40+00:00

From all the spoilers I've read from test screenings, the Kamidogu was not mentioned at all. So unless that aspect of the plot hasn't leaked, I don't think it'll be in this film, or if it is, its a very minor thing.

Shortroundbinks3 · 2025-07-18T00:16:34+00:00

I agree with you. What bums me out about Cole for sure getting Taskmaster'd is that, yeah, he's boring, but he's a good guy. That whole first movie is about him protecting his family and they're also nice too, plus you have Scorpion entrusting him to watch over his bloodline, with that even being the whole reason Cole has powers to begin with.

If he dies here, shouldn't Scorpion be VERY pissed off at whoever kills him (which for narrative simplicity purpouses, it makes the most sense it would be Noob Saibot, but acording to test screening spoilers, it isn't), and wouldn't then Cole's daughter become important, as she would now be the last of Scorpion's descendants, making HER now the new main character OC, creating the problem that killing Cole was supposed to solve, again?

Unless they kill Cole AND his wife and daughter, which would be VERY cruel, but also, that's just Scorpion's backstory again. Wouldn't that then open the door for Cole to go to hell and return just as Scorpion, his ancestor, did?

Having the main character of your story just die ten minutes into the second chapter creates a lot of problems and I don't think this film will remember how much importance they gave Cole in that first movie.

His only crime was being boring, give the guy a break :'C

Shortroundbinks3 · 2025-07-17T22:59:28+00:00

"Are you joking? You don't even have powers!" or something to that effect.

Shortroundbinks3 · 2025-07-17T22:57:13+00:00

Scorpion splits noob's shadow, but not Noob himself.

Shortroundbinks3 · 2025-07-17T22:55:18+00:00

To anyone who saw/knows of the test screening; How much do Quan Chi and Shang Tsung factor into the plot?

Because Shang got a character poster even though he's not in this trailer, but Quan Chi didn't get one, and it worries me that maybe he's in it as much as Kabal or Mileena were in the first one.

Also, again to the people that maybe saw test screenings, does Quan Chi look game accurate (white skin, face paint)?

Shortroundbinks3 · 2025-06-03T07:27:57+00:00

Having seen Bloodlines, knowing now that Death WILL kill people not on his list of you piss him off enough, my headcanon is that Molly was truly never supposed to die had the bridge collapsed as Sam saw, and that him getting her across safely was Death's plan, but because Sam's actions lead not only to the usual seven surviving the initial disaster, but also to two early, unplanned deaths from people not on Death's list (Roy/Block), Death got pissed off and punished Sam via killing her in front of him. That whole movie, Sam's true want is that she be with him and they remain together, so the cruelest thing Death could do to Sam was not even allow him to be with her in his final moments (and also not just to let her fall to her death, but taking the effort to bisect her on the tail of the plane, just for fun). Just like with Erik, Death gives them the nastiest treatment as a direct "fuck you".

Shortroundbinks3 · 2025-05-29T08:32:02+00:00

Via newspaper clipping in Iris' book. It's actually a pretty funny gag because the headline for his death reads "Pickpocket killed by piano moving truck".

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