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Backrooms: Kane Parsons' YouTube liminal space enters Hollywood
A movie poster showing a sheet of mono-yellow coloured wallpaper might typically wash over your head.
Not this one. It's instantly recognisable to millions – and inspires dread.
This is Hollywood's latest horror film – Backrooms – and it knows its audience: one more drawn to whispered horror than A-list names, monsters and gore.
Backrooms are essentially disturbing, abandoned rooms with seemingly no end in sight. It could be an empty office block, a hallway or a corridor – unsettling between-zones.
The concept came about in 2019, when anonymous users on message board 4chan were asked to "post disquieting images that just feel 'off'."
‘I found a place’: how Backrooms captures the horror of sinister architecture
Buzzy new thriller Backrooms takes us on an unknowable journey through liminal spaces, the latest film to turn a building into a horror villain
When architect turned furniture store owner Clark (Chiwetel Ejiofor) finds a portal to a mysterious realm of âbackroomsâ in the basement of his showroom, he struggles to explain it to his therapist, Dr Mary Kline (Renate Reinsve).
This otherwise innocuous phrase becomes a chilling summary of the architectural horror conjured in Backrooms, the latest A24 thriller that takes us into the liminal spaces of offices, dead malls and other eerie places that exist neither here nor there. Kane Parsons, the 20-year-old director â the youngest ever to work with the studio â produced a series of YouTube shorts titled Backrooms using just the free 3D software Blender and Adobe After Effects. The series has now been turned into a feature-length film, although it retains its visual language and conceptual framework.
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The internet horror phenomenon that can't quite find the door
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The meme-rooted Backrooms is the latest movie to pull its mounting horrors out of liminal spaces. Exit 8, released earlier this year, was set entirely in a subway corridor. In Backrooms, a struggling furniture salesperson discovers beneath his store an underground labyrinth, all lined with yellow wallpapered walls and fluorescent lighting.
Where Backrooms came from is more interesting – and potentially meaningful – than the result. The movie, directed by 20-year-old YouTuber-turned-filmmaker Kane Parsons, is a fitfully unsettling nightmare that never convincingly builds beyond its creepy, dated-decor premise.
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