The Backrooms is coming to Los Angeles. Well, technically Burbank, but if you’ve ever driven the 134 at rush hour, you already know that’s its own psychological horror experience.
From May 13 through May 17, A24 is dropping Angelenos straight into Backrooms, the internet’s favorite fluorescent nightmare turned big screen horror film. The pop up is free, reservation based, and tucked inside an unassuming building in Burbank because of course it is. According to early visitors, you’ll wander through yellow wallpapered hallways, weird empty rooms, stacked chairs, and at least one area designed to make you question every office building you’ve ever entered. Honestly, if you’ve worked a temp job in the Valley, you’ve been training for this your whole life.
If you’re new to The Backrooms, here’s the short version. Years ago, the internet collectively decided that beige carpet, humming fluorescent lights, and empty corporate hallways were somehow the scariest thing on earth. Then filmmaker Kane Parsons turned that creepy little internet myth into viral found footage. Now A24 turned it into a feature film starring Chiwetel Ejiofor, and somehow that sentence still sounds fake. It isn’t. Welcome to 2026.
Fair warning. Reservations sold out almost instantly, waitlists are filling, and Reddit already looks like people trying to buy concert tickets for a haunted OfficeMax. So if slots reopen, move fast. Or just show up in Burbank wearing business casual and stare blankly into a hallway until someone assumes you’re part of the installation.
Reservations can be made here. As of now, only waitlist spots are available.
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