Kane Parsons Doesn't Consider 'Backrooms' a Horror Film: 'Oblivious to Those Labels'

"Backrooms" director Kane Parsons voiced his resistance to calling his hit debut feature a "horror" film, going on to share plans to skirt such genre labels with his future projects. "I didn't direct like a horror film. I don't view it as a horror project . . . That's just naturally been the path of least resistance from a marketing perspective and it's what seems comfortable to people as a framing device," Parsons said, speaking during a panel at Zurich Summit on Saturday (per Deadline). "I'm going to try to stay as oblivious to those labels as possible . . . I have more . . .