Backrooms (A24)

Id heard of the creepy pasta internet phenomenon and after a brief history lesson, had no idea it was so huge. Bloody weird what some people get into....
But then look at skibidi toilet :p

I'll watch it. I mean it has all the right elements for an unnerving horror esq film.

Tbh the kanepixel guy seems to be able to make decent shorter videos, so I guess there's hope.

Another little cult "smash"film in the making, I think. Not exactly gonna. Be high budget and every chance it makes huge bank!
 
Going to be a tough one to pull off mind without either demystifying the whole thing or not really developing into anything making the movie kind of pointless.
 
Rroff said:
Going to be a tough one to pull off mind without either demystifying the whole thing or not really developing into anything making the movie kind of pointless.
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Did you watch the blood submarine film.... Lol.

I still don't have a clue.
 
I don’t understand how these liminal spaces are supposed to be frightening… unless it’s the horrors of being in a bland waiting room :p

Tell you what is errie… an empty cinema. Went to a late showing and forgot my wallet, went back in as they were locking up and went up stairs, along a loooong corridor then to the back via my phone torch. Very creepy! I guess these liminal spaces give people the same ‘ick’ :)
 
Nitefly said:
I don’t understand how these liminal spaces are supposed to be frightening… unless it’s the horrors of being in a bland waiting room :p

Tell you what is errie… an empty cinema. Went to a late showing and forgot my wallet, went back in as they were locking up and went up stairs, along a loooong corridor then to the back via my phone torch. Very creepy! I guess these liminal spaces give people the same ‘ick’ :)
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I think some people experience existential dread from it, personally it doesn't work for me though I find the concept mildly interesting if done well.
 
Nitefly said:
I don’t understand how these liminal spaces are supposed to be frightening… unless it’s the horrors of being in a bland waiting room :p

Tell you what is errie… an empty cinema. Went to a late showing and forgot my wallet, went back in as they were locking up and went up stairs, along a loooong corridor then to the back via my phone torch. Very creepy! I guess these liminal spaces give people the same ‘ick’ :)
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What about an empty cinema and you're the only one in there watching nosferatu? :D
 
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Nitefly said:
I don’t understand how these liminal spaces are supposed to be frightening… unless it’s the horrors of being in a bland waiting room :p

Tell you what is errie… an empty cinema. Went to a late showing and forgot my wallet, went back in as they were locking up and went up stairs, along a loooong corridor then to the back via my phone torch. Very creepy! I guess these liminal spaces give people the same ‘ick’ :)
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Ur just too ard m8.

They remind me of the abandoned ops bunker I used to have to go in to as part of my first RAF job. Just weird, furnitureless, oddly positioned things with unknown purposes.
 
Out tomorrow, early reviews are fairly promising though one tagline of "one of the most out there horror films since Eraserhead" makes me pause for thought as I'm not sure I’ve ever made it all the way through Eraserhead :cry:
 
My thoughts from the daily film thread:

Nitefly said:
Backrooms (at the cinema)

A frustrated store owner discovered a strange, seemingly never-ending series of rooms in his basement.

High peaks spread a little thin. Backrooms suffers from the same problem as ‘Exit 8’; it spends an awfully long time exposing its audience to more of the same fresh concept, borderline ad nauseum. I found myself thinking ‘yeah, I get it’ more than once.

Unlike ‘Exit 8’, it eventually touches upon some very interesting ideas, with the ‘scenario’ then being a platform for the actors figuring out some ‘personal truths’. This all comes together beautifully in the last few moments, although this aspect might be ‘blink and you’ll miss it’ as it’s never really spelled out. Maybe that’s for the best?

7.5/10 - works very well as something to reflect on, far less well as an in the moment ‘popcorn watch’.

Additional thoughts / personal analysis:

My take was that the shrink was bemused by the scientist repeating works very similar to that heard on the therapy tape, realising that the attempts to explore and rationalise events of the mind are as pointless as trying to explain the cacophony of the Backrooms. This was poignant set against her seeming failure to control her own life and failure to help her own patients.

In a nutshell: the mind is a meandering maze of nonsense that cannot be conquered.

I’m not sure whether this should have been more ‘obvious’, but that’s my take at least.

Also, good performance from Chiwetel Ejiofor.
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5/10

It's ok, has some creepy set pieces but not much of a story. There isn't any depth, all questions, no answers. Also it doesn't touch on any of the Async Research Institute lore. It's enter the room, exit the room, the end.
 
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smokedog said:
Also it doesn't touch on any of the Async Research Institute lore.
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I'm not 100% on the details but because of the way a lot of the material related to the whole Backrooms / Liminal stuff has been released there are legal considerations with using it commercially.
 
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There isn't any depth, all questions, no answers.
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As per my spoiler above, I think there being ‘no answers’ was very much the intention of the film. As in, it’s a statement of the oblivion of the mind and what we make of the world, which is immune to reason.

As per my post, I’d agree that the film is rather flat without this aspect.
 
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