Backrooms parents guide

Backrooms Parent Guide

There's always room for fear.

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Theaters: A therapist heads into another dimension to save her patient.

Release date May 29, 2026

Violence
Sexual Content
Profanity
Substance Use

Why is Backrooms rated R? The MPAA rated Backrooms R for language and some violent content/bloody images

Run Time: 110 minutes

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Directed by Kane Parsons. Starring Chiwetil Ejiofor, Renate Reinsve, Mark Duplass. Running time: 110 minutes. Theatrical release May 29, 2026. Updated May 30, 2026

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Why is Backrooms rated R? Backrooms is rated R by the MPAA for language and some violent content/bloody images

Violence: A person stabs a human-looking creature through the neck and then scoops white pulp out of their abdomen. A non-human being is hit across the head. A non-human is smashed in the face with concrete, leading to blood sprays. A character is non-fatally choked. A monster bites a character on the shoulder and then kills them off screen. A severed head is seen. A woman is kidnapped and tied to a chair. There are frequent chase scenes that involve screaming and intense feelings of dread. There are frequent unsettling images. A bloody, dead bird is seen.
Sexual Content: There is some innuendo about tying someone up with a rope.
Profanity: There is frequent cursing, including over 30 uses of a sexual expletive plus scatological curses and anatomical terms.
Drugs/Alcohol: A person mentions having used marijuana and being under it sinfluence.

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