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A24's Backrooms movie has a 'fairly simple' story, its director says — but the new horror movie doesn't dumb down 'all of the lore' that diehard fans love in order to appeal to a wider audience

The director of A24's Backrooms movie has had his say on why some film adaptations fail
Kane Parsons thinks some studios ignore the "actual DNA" of franchises that made them popular to begin with
Backrooms' filmmaker is also the creator behind a viral YouTube series that was inspired by this film's source material

The director of A24's Backrooms movie has had his say on why some film and TV adaptations fail — and how his first big-budget project will attempt to avoid similar pitfalls.

Speaking exclusively to TechRadar, Kane Parsons suggested that the reason some adaptations don't succeed is because studios and/or a production's chief creative team don't fully understand why fans latched onto them in the first place.

For the uninitiated: Backroomsis a feature film retelling of The Backrooms. A creepypasta (read: an internet-created horror folktale) that's only existed since 2019, The Backrooms is described as an...

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