Backrooms (2026)
Horror, Mystery, Science Fiction • 1h 51m
Director: Kane Parsons
Cast: Chiwetel Ejiofor, Renate Reinsve, Finn Bennett, Lukita Maxwell, Mark Duplass, Avan Jogia, Robert Bobroczkyi, Ember Ambrose, Krista Kosonen, Philip Granger, Katharine Isabelle, Peter New, Sarah Hayward, Natalie Moon, Calix Fraser, Sawyer Fraser, Patrick Baynham, Rhiannon Roberts, Dana Mahmood, Matthew Patrick Savage, Ramona Kim, Milana Wan, Kelly Craig, Mel Kostas
Canada Elevation 4K Blu-ray
Best English-friendly & video release · updated 29 days ago
> US A24 comparisons
Overview
A strange doorway appears in the basement of a furniture showroom.
USA Lionsgate/A24 4K Blu-ray for Dolby Atmos mix
Netherlands Remain in Light 4K Blu-ray for the alternate Auro-3D mix
(caveat: no English subtitles for Mandarin/Cantonese dialogue)
Director: Jane Schoenbrun
Video format: 4K Streaming
Director: Spike Lee
Director: Charlotte Wells
Director: Ari Aster
Theatrical Cut: Germany 4K Blu-ray
Director's Cut: A24 4K Blu-ray
Theatrical Cut: Japan 4K Blu-ray
Theatrical Cut Blu-ray has extras that the DC 4K Blu-ray lacks
Directors: Ray Mendoza & Alex Garland
Sources: slow.pics (opens in a new tab)
Director: Darren Aronofsky
More Horror on Blu-ray
Director: Lewis Teague
> disappointing US Kino Lorber 4K Blu-ray
Director: Alexandre Aja
Theatrical Cut: Austria NSM Blu-ray
Director's Cut: France Metropolitan Blu-ray
Metropolitan got better picture (higher bitrate + better grain + more detail) than Lionsgate
Director: Glen Morgan
Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab) · DVDBeaver (opens in a new tab)
> Germany Wicked Vision Blu-ray > US Flicker Alley Blu-ray see DVDBeaver caps
Director: George Pavlou
Arrow 4K Blu-ray teased
Germany Wicked Vision 4K Blu-ray better than US Kino Lorber?
Director: Roman Polanski
Lionsgate Limited 4K Blu-ray
Sources: Blu-ray.com (opens in a new tab)
Lionsgate Limited 4K Blu-ray see caps. Much better contrast and grain exposure but the grade is a bit questionable as it skews heavily towards magenta in some caps and the encode looks low-pass filtered.
Atmos Remix: Lionsgate 4K Blu-ray
Original 5.1: Imprint Australia Blu-ray or StudioCanal Germany/France Blu-ray
Lionsgate 4K Blu-ray encoded the "Original 5.1" as lossy Dolby Digital, which is very different from the AC3 on the original DVD. This new "Original 5.1" may in fact be a downmix of the Atmos track. FWIW, the original DVD AC3 still sounds very good.
Director: F. W. Murnau
2006 Restoration: Eureka Blu-ray
1995 photochemical restoration: BFI Blu-ray
Eureka with Murnau institute restoration featuring score based on original score, BFI uses Photoplay restoration with James Bernard score
Both Eureka and BFI Blu-rays are worthy of owning. Each restoration has unique positives and extras. The James Bernard score on the BFI is outstanding and the image tinting is different to how the Murnau institute official restoration was done. The Eureka MoC Blu-ray is stuffed with extras and remains one of the best-made Blu-rays of all time. Whatever you do: AVOID THE Kino Lorber Blu-ray!!! It uses the same Murnau institute restoration but drops frames for the whole feature - thus it loses a significant portion of the film! This was never acknowledged or addressed. The Kino Lorber Blu-ray remains one of the worst Blu-rays of all time for this reason.
Germany Filmjuwelen 4K Blu-ray is disappointing with AI upscaling
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