Let’s start with the thing everyone is talking about. We all know that Kane Parsons is 20 years old… but Kane Parsons is 20 years old!? Backrooms is far from a refined, polished horror film, but it is one hell of a welcome to a director with an exciting future ahead. There is such a clear understanding of every intention in the film from Parsons, even if they aren’t all realized with finesse.

That being said, this is his baby,…

This plays out like a misogynist’s nightmare, rather than the realisation of how different a world would be run by women.

This is so far from what a woman-led world would look like, and the film is more interested in teaching its protagonist a lesson than standing for what it thinks it believes in. How the hell does a film with this concept manage to be offensive? 

No, a woman-run world would not simply swap around the sexism. Women wouldn’t…