"While Backrooms occasionally trades the eerie intimacy of the original YouTube videos for a strain of lead-footed literalism... Parsons’ assured command of the film’s bone-chilling dread [and] thematic ambition more than justifies the leap from viral curiosity to prestige production." Full review:
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Kane Parsons’ feature debut is fascinatingly caught between two generations’ instincts for what frightens us Much like the fictional liminal location itself, the Backrooms mythos seemed to manifest out of nowhere—arising in 4chan posts in the 2010s before taking on a viral life of its own. It’s a simple setup: people randomly find themselves inside […]
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