The 2026 additions
A hotel room, a wish, and several thousand doors you should probably leave alone.
All three requested films now have developed first-pass manuscripts. Each includes a critical argument, viewer advisories, a proposed verdict and ending analysis behind a closed disclosure. Verdicts and advisories await the owner's review; numerical scores remain unassigned.
The three films
| Film | Director | Proposed verdict |
|---|---|---|
| Hokum | Damian McCarthy | Worth watching |
| Obsession | Curry Barker | Watch with caveats |
| Backrooms | Kane Parsons | Watch with caveats |
What each brings
Hokum puts an abrasive writer inside a haunted hotel, making assistance and local knowledge part of its physical suspense. The draft weighs its atmosphere and performances against the way other people's suffering serves the protagonist's recovery.
Obsession makes a wish for reciprocated affection into a violation of agency. Its intimate staging is a strength; the draft also questions moments that make the woman's dispossession feel secondary to the man's discomfort.
Backrooms turns ordinary architecture into an unreliable guide. The draft values the spatial unease while examining whether the added psychological and institutional explanations deepen it.
Before you choose
- Hokum: intense supernatural horror, bloody injury, suicide-attempt aftermath, childhood trauma, bereavement and pregnancy-related abuse. Specific contexts have a separate disclosure.
- Obsession: coercive attachment, severe gore, sexual content, self-harm and suicidal behaviour, plus disturbing animal-death material.
- Backrooms: sustained disorientation and confinement, creature violence, abduction and restraint, mental distress and a dead bird. The BBFC flags flashing images.
The individual reviews distinguish what is shown, discussed and revealed later. Specific character outcomes remain behind disclosures.
Dates and versions
Obsession is filed under its requested 2026 theatrical release year. NBCUniversal records a TIFF premiere on 5 September 2025 and a US theatrical release on 15 May 2026. Sources using 2025 refer to the same film; no duplicate review has been created.
Backrooms uses the approximately 110-minute original release listed by A24 and timed at 110 minutes 20 seconds in the BBFC's May cinema record. A later 126-minute-36-second cinema listing is recorded separately. The review does not invent a director's-cut explanation for the difference.
These are owner-requested additions. Inclusion does not establish that the owner has watched them or approved the recommendations. The new criticism is source-based and claims no fresh viewing.