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EPISODE S2E05: "Backrooms" (2026)
Welcome back to Dad, You're Wrong, the podcast where a Gen X dad and his millennial son keep score on this year's horror slate.
Kane Parsons turns his viral YouTube nightmare into a feature, and Chiwetel Ejiofor plays Clark, a divorced furniture store owner who no-clips out of his own basement and into the Backrooms. Eric and Josh agree on almost every flaw in this thing and still cannot agree on whether you should see it.
Josh caught an early preview convinced this was the film to knock Obsession off the number one spot. He walked out wondering if it could crack the top ten. Eric rolled up with his buddy Joe in the Scooby-Doo van to a packed, dead-silent house that was fully pulling for it.
The hosts go deep on what works and what does not: Parsons's cold open and its roots in the original YouTube shorts, a sound design and eerie score that Eric calls some of his favorite of the year, the found-footage sequences that are easily the best footage in the film, the performances (Ejiofor commits, Dr. Mary Klein does not), and a Will Sudik screenplay they argue is where the whole thing comes apart. Josh says support it on the big screen. Eric says your couch is fine.
Plus: Josh breaks his own VHS Vault rule and brings a video game instead, Remedy's Control, the most Backrooms thing that is not Backrooms.
Eric's Rating: VOD. Josh's Rating: Watch in Theater.
Bring a flashlight. Then come back and tell us we're wrong.
