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The Internet’s Favorite Horror Subgenre Is Breaking Into the Big Time

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By Simon Abrams Verified
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The Internet’s Favorite Horror Subgenre Is Breaking Into the Big Time Published June 9, 2026 YouTuber and visual effects artist Kane Parsons didn’t create the Backrooms, but he did turn it into a viral sensation. On January 7, 2022, Parsons debuted “Found Footage,” the first short film in a series set in the Backrooms, a surreal and seemingly endless network of corridors and hallways.
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The new Scary Movie is the most embarrassing spoof since the first Scary Movie

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By Simon Abrams Verified
| The A.V. Club Verified
The funniest and most pointed joke in Scary Movie, the Wayans brothers’ third title in the lowest-common-denominator horror parody series, is suggested in its modifier-free name. This is the sixth Scary Movie and the Wayans’ first in 25 years and the movie’s spartan title effectively sends up genre series filmmakers who suggest that they’re going back to basics by removing numbers from their latest sequel’s title.
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John Carney is his own cover band in the affable, bland Power Ballad

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By Simon Abrams Verified
| The A.V. Club Verified
In case you forgot that Paul Rudd’s a star, Power Ballad—an affable yet bland dramedy about a wedding singer who gets ripped off by Nick Jonas, who plays an ex-boy-band pop star—is here to remind you of his virtues. Rudd, and to a lesser extent Jonas, set the pace for this light and fitfully likable tribute to Gen X and dad-rock values, things like fighting for personal vindication (instead of money) and dedicating everything you do (creatively) to your teenage daughter.
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