'' BACKROOMS '' HORROR FILM HONOURS

LOS ANGELES : ' Backrooms ' becomes the biggest original horror film debut. Based on the YouTube horror series, the film breaks box office records.

A24's ' Backrooms ', the big screen adaptation of a vital YouTube horror series, smashed several box office records with an $81.5 million North American debut, US media reported on Sunday.

Directed by 20-year-old Kane Parsons, who created the ' Backrooms ' web series as a teenager, the movie's massive opening weekend haul is the largest ever for the original horror film and more than doubles A24's previous best domestic opening according to Variety.

Parsons also becomes the youngest director ever to debut at number one with a feature-film, the entertainment trade publication said.

Starring Oscar nominees Chiwetel Ejiofor and Renate Reinsve, the movie follows a furniture shop owner [ Ejiofor ] who discovers a mysterious, labyrinthine complex underneath his store.

When the man goes missing, his therapist [ Reinsve ] steps inside the liminal space to try and find him.

The online series, which began in 2022, became part of a phenomenon known as  ''creepypasta'' - a short horror story reposted and modified around the web, to which other users added details such as monsters and undiscovered dimensions.

!WOW! thanks AFP.