Behind the Backrooms: Kane Parsons on Building a World From Scratch

The physical set for The Backrooms feature film isn't just a recreation of what Kane Parsons modeled in Blender—it's a near one-to-one physical manifestation of those digital files. Standing inside it, Parsons described the surreal experience of walking through something that used to exist only in his computer. The set, built inside a massive studio space in Vancouver, contains multiple connected areas in a single continuous layout: the furniture store basement, the stairs, and the iconic liminal hallways all flow together, allowing the production to return to the same hub multiple times throughout the film.

From Solo Creator to Studio Production

Parsons began the Backrooms series as a solo project, making it "for fun to decompress" after working on other videos. He describes the original short as "a little tech demo" and a "pilot"—something he made without any external evaluation or pressure. But attaching that project to a feature film forced him to adapt to a fundamentally different workflow.