This weekend, “Backrooms” entered the mainstream. A24’s buzzy horror film, directed by 20-year-old YouTube phenom Kane Parsons, obliterated box office expectations with $81 million domestically and $118 million worldwide in its opening weekend.

Warning: Major Talk to Me spoilers ahead. Not that we expect, need or necessarily want our scary movies to have happy endings — or at least let our hero not be gruesomely murdered — yet the climax of the summer’s scariest breakout, Talk to Me, felt ...

Aya Tsintziras is a freelance writer who writes about TV, movies, and has a particular interest in the horror genre. She has a Political Science degree from the University of Toronto and a Masters of Journalism from Toronto Metropolitan University.