For the evening crowd, my full @cinapse.bsky.social thoughts on the eagerly anticipated BACKROOMS.
Kane Parsons’ debut marks a fascinating new shift in studio horror—one that stumbles over some generational genre baggage, to be sure, yet still manages to be captivating and genuinely unsettling.
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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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