Summary
A24 is working with Joya, a New York-based candle studio, to create products inspired by the unsettling look of the film The Backrooms. The first item is a yellow soy wax candle in a glass container decorated with the distinctive, damp wallpaper pattern from the movie. Its scent aims to capture the feeling of The Backrooms using notes like metal, ash, humidity, and distorted static.
A24 is bringing the unsettling world of Backrooms to your home with a new candle created in collaboration with Joya. This handmade candle doesn’t just feature the Backrooms name – it aims to capture the feeling of the horror series itself, recreating its creepy, fluorescent-lit atmosphere through scent and packaging.
To see why a candle fits into this context, it’s helpful to understand the Backrooms. It started as an online trend based on ‘liminal spaces’ – those strangely familiar yet unsettling places like empty hallways, offices with old carpets, and rooms with buzzing lights. It grew from images and short videos into a popular horror series, and a major movie studio is now making a feature film. This history is exactly why a product focused on creating a specific atmosphere, like this candle, feels right at home.
The design heavily relies on familiar imagery from the Backrooms. The candle’s glass container features the Backrooms’ well-known wallpaper pattern – that unsettling yellow design that’s become synonymous with the look and feel – and the wax inside matches the same color scheme. It doesn’t feel like a typical product; instead, it feels like something discovered within those infinite, looping rooms, and that’s exactly what the creators were aiming for.
Okay, so this candle is seriously different. It’s not about smelling like flowers or anything normal; it’s more like they bottled a feeling. The scent notes are wild – things like metallic static, ash, and even ‘signal deformation’! Honestly, reading the list sounds more like describing a creepy, old computer room than a fragrance. It’s made by this studio in New York called Joya, and they really think of scent as an art form. It burns for around 50 hours, which is cool, but they also have this ‘Scent Kit’ you can get to really dive deeper into the whole idea behind it. It’s a really unique experience, not just a candle!
The Joya x Backrooms Candle is available now via A24.
2026-07-27 12:26