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One of this year's biggest supernatural thrillers is arriving on digital a little later than expected. Turning a once-online cult concept into a real box office force, the film opened to roughly $81 million domestically and $118 million worldwide. It set a new A24 opening-weekend record and quickly proved itself as the breakout hit of the year.
We had previously reported that Backrooms would reach Premium Video on Demand platforms on Jul. 7, but that no longer appears to be the case. According to A24, Backrooms is set to arrive on digital on Tuesday, Jul. 14, 2026, which would push its home debut back by one week. A24 tends not to rush titles out of theaters if there is still meaningful box office revenue on the table, and Backrooms had expanded its theatrical run over the recent holiday frame.
Seen that way, the one-week shift does not look especially unusual. The wider genre market has suggested that audiences are still turning up for horror when a film feels distinct enough. Focus Features' Obsession is one of the clearer examples, having reached about $403 million worldwide, including $245 million domestically. That does not mean every genre release has broken through in the same way. Warner Bros.' The Bride! opened to $7.3 million in North America and $13.6 million worldwide in its first weekend, which was a far quieter start.
Backrooms, for its part, has certainly landed in that more favorable category. MovieWeb's Mark Keizer touched on part of that appeal in his review, writing:
"Backrooms is a vibe movie that tries to tap into complex feelings that, by design, cannot be fully understood."
According to Warner Bros. Discovery, A24 and HBO Max renewed their U.S. pay-one and library deal earlier this year, which makes HBO Max the likely eventual subscription streaming home for the film. There is not yet an official HBO Max date in the sources reviewed, so anything more precise than that would be guesswork. That also brings things back to Kane Parsons, who directed Backrooms.
The film's breakout has made him one of the more visible YouTube-born filmmakers now making the jump into studio features. Parsons had hinted at the possibility of Backrooms expanding into more of a film franchise, which may point to plans beyond a single installment (via Variety). For now, though, A24 has not officially announced a sequel.
