It’s April, and you know what that means: Trust no one, and go to the moon. Let’s check out some trailers and miscellany from this past week.
Backrooms Official Trailer
Looking at the first full trailer for A24’s Backrooms, we now know we can expect ominous piles of mostly assorted office furniture and at least one Christmas tree. Frankly, that’s the kind of hoarding situation that makes my skin crawl, so this movie’s already at the top of my horror list for 2026.
Beyond that, the Backrooms is more about the disorienting unease of being trapped under fluorescent lights in infinite mundane rooms. And that’s exactly where Chiewetel Ejiofor goes when he finds a portal in the wall of a Cap’n Clark’s Ottoman Empire store. I’m glad to see some VHS elements, along with House of Leaves-esque stuff going on with rope. It wouldn’t be the Backrooms if our characters didn’t try measuring their stranger dimensions. Also, there’s a pool.
“All these rooms. This place builds them.”
The End of Oak Street
JJ Abrams and Bad Robot are back with The End of Oak Street and its first teaser trailer, featuring some weird dread probably involving time travel and dinosaurs. A family’s entire neighborhood mysteriously just kind of…moves. Somewhere. Somewhen.
“After a mysterious cosmic event rips Oak Street from suburbia and transports their neighborhood to someplace unknown, the Platt family soon discovers that their very survival depends on them sticking together as they navigate their now unrecognizable surroundings.”
The film is written and directed by David Robert Mitchell, known for It Follows, and stars Ewan McGregor and Anne Hathaway. It premieres in North America on August 14, 2026.
Back to the Moon
The Artemis II mission is well underway now, our first time heading back to the moon since 1972. Last I checked, the mission’s launch trailer here hit #11 on YouTube’s movies Trending Chart. That’s a decent premiere and it looks like a solid flick. The actual live show of the launch itself on April 1 hit nearly 3 million live viewers for the official NASA broadcast I watched. You can keep up with the current livestream right over here.
You might also want to check out this footage of the launch taken on a Nintendo 3DS. Why? We do these things not because they are easy, but because they are hard. The mission is expected to reach the far side of the moon on Monday.
Top Robot Finger Videos of the Week
Robots are just kind of showing off, now. Here’s one displaying its ability to use its fingers for mundane tasks, and another that’s basically Thing from The Addams Family. Does a robot hand need a robot arm? No, not really. Its fingers can also just move in any direction, unbound by ordinary human limits while handling Pringles cans and opening up mustard bottles. The future is now.
From AI to X-Files
Woman claims NDE gave her paranormal powers
She now says she can see ghosts and predict fates.
AI wrote a paper that passed peer review
The AI workflow mimics a human scientist's workflow, including writing code to run experiments.
Himesh Patel cast in Ryan Coogler's The X-Files Reboot
Patel joins Danielle Deadwyler as co-lead.
Scientist claims dreams may be windows into other realities
Popular Mechanics explores a controversial idea.
Poppy Playtime horror game is getting a film adaptation
Variety talks to indie developer Mob Entertainment.
Transferring brains into cloned human bodies?
A startup is exploring cloning potential...
That’s it for this week’s Weekly Doomscroll. Actually on a Sunday this time. That counts as the end of the week. Impressive. If you’re bored, dive into some 3am static (updating soon) and follow me on X if that sounds like a thing to do, and thanks for reading!
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