‘Backrooms’ director Kane Parsons responds to claims he ghost-directed horror hit

Backrooms

Kane Parsons has responded to rumours that he ghost directed his horror hit Backrooms.

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The film, based on his web series, stars Renate Reinsve as a therapist who enters a parallel dimension made of liminal spaces to search for her patient (Chiwetel Ejiofor).

The director’s young age of 20, and inexperience being at the helm of a major motion picture, led to a theory online that another filmmaker stepped in as “ghost director”, a term for someone who makes the decisions on-set while another person is credited and delivers their instructions to the crew.