Can someone explain how this is a horror movie?I'm a millennial so maybe it's different with zoomers but I tried looking at this for 15 minutes and couldn't find anything scary. It's slightly disconcerting at worst.
killer bionicles lmao
>>218204586For me the scary one is the one in the pool/water roomI just hate anything involving closed spaces and water
Zoomers are retarded and just think whatever shills and YouTubers and shit coerce them into thinking.
>>218204586you would first have to be into the idea of the backrooms. i dont mind the idea, the whole thing feels like an offshoot of cosmic horror to me. the addition of monsters is stupid though and ruins the concept. the initial concept of the backrooms reminds me of an old video i saw on "scariest places on earth" back in the day of a guy lost in the paris catacombs, just slowly and aimlessly wandering the corridors and filming everything. eventually he starts to panic, drops the camera and you see his feet disappear into the distance as he runs. the backrooms scratch that same itch for me
>>218204586I like the Kane Pixel videos about it. These ones are my favorite videos:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H4dGpz6cnHohttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0XwlWXtpaCMhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=acdYs9tPLko>>218204725That video used to freak me out. I saw a recent video of someone going in there and man it really is easy to get lost in there.
>>218204586It’s horror for people who are into creepy pasta and SCP. If you didn’t get scared by Jeff the killer, slender man, or suicide mouse, then congratulations - you’re not a complete faggot and back rooms won’t creep you out either.
>>218204780dont lump slenderman in with those other ones. slenderman felt like we collectively memed a new grimm's fairytale into creation
>>218204586Looks like the secret level of some shit game
>>218204586Depending on a zoomer you ask they either find these comforting, nostalgic / melancholic or scary I guess existentially as in you're in some weird ass neverending place that may or may not have some weird thing in it (and the odd feeling of familiarity / nostalgia also plays a role I guess).Both of these types may or may not headcanon this shit into some SCP type autism.Also, this shit was likely made up by some millenial on here, I think it originates from an /x/ thread, so obviously it's not a zoomer exclusive thing.
the two youngest generations have had so much vying for their attention 24/7 that the absence of marketing disturbs them.
>>218205002The original “back room” pics were from a business in Wisconsin. These guys had bought an office for some sort of model train exhibit and were doing a tour of the facilities with pics for a blog post before they started renovating. Someone grabbed one of the pics.
>>218205080Yes, I know the original pic source was found. I'm just saying that the whole concept originated from an /x/ thread.
>>218205080The pic is from 2003 and it’s now an RC racing track, not model trains. Still autistic, but a different breed. https://web.archive.org/web/20030503094137/http://www.hobbytownoshkosh.com:80/revolution%20raceway,%20020903.htm
>>218204586I honestly think it's considered scary or whatever because it presents the idea of zero external stimulation, which is terrifying for iPad kids.
>>218205265There's a difference between not having external overstimulation and being trapped forever in an eternal maze with fucking nothing in it. Or with an eldritch thing that God knows what might do to you (I think in the Kane Parson's shorts it's basically left vague if the monster just kills you or if it's something worse than death).
>yeah I get the idea of a labyrinth but I don't understand why the labyrinth has a minotaur in it
it's just the zoomer version of cosmic horror, particularly the idea that the universe extends forever in all directions, and it does not give a shit whether you are there or not. Read the short story "The Library Of Babel" by Jorge Luis Borges
>>218204833It’s a pity slenderman blew up.Just a few disconcerting images of some creepy bastard and your mind filling in the blanks was good enough.
Im a millennial and love the backrooms stuff. Dont listen to the unc haters, bros
>>218204586>trapped in a mysterious labrythine purgatoryWhy are you autists pretending that this hasn't been done in horror for centuries?
>>218204725The caveat with the ooky spooky monsters is that the original post that started it *does* imply a monster of some sort ("if you hear something moving it's already heard you" or however it goes) but none of these zoomers understand subtlety
>>218204586Oof, the trailer looks so bad. Actually just a blender render.
>>218205968its just a teaser made in blender. The movie itself will be live action with sets. The last frame in the teaser was real
>>218205968Bro but Blender was what was used in the original videos!! That's why it's genius!
what if you noclip into universal places you aren't supposed to be init's weird it's sprawling it goes on foreverand you're not alone
>>218206087but what's the point of the setting then? it follows has the horror element of nobody else being able to see thing trying to murder you
>>218204637i can't imagine the render time on those
>>218204586>>218204645>>218205265>>218205942>muh zoomersMillennials are the ones who think you HAVE to add monsters otherwise it isn't le scary so who really can't into subtlety here?
>>218204586the rooms themselves are not scary inherently, the idea of being trapped in some kind of purgatory is. unfortunately people conflate the two
>>218204586Fr nothin there unc.
>>218204586I seriously don't get it either, mate. Must be the fluorescent lights or something.
>>218206816yeah but notice how a millennial is able to make a FF scene on their own which is 100x scarier than any zoomer movie https://youtu.be/UrwODmfvSdg
>>218204586I hate how it doesn't have an official lore. anyone can write anything about it, create their own history and that's it.
>>218204586>empty room where a zoomer is left with his own thoughts>"AAAGHHH THIS IS LITERALLY THE MOST HORRIFIYING THING I CAN IMAGINE!"
it looks like a nursing home from the 90s to me
>millenuncs don't get it>cosmic horror millennials are seriously retarded they need horror spoonfed to them. if there's no scary monsterdemon they don't get ithorror does not need to be "OMG IM ABOUT TO FUCKING DIE" millenials just don't understand
>>218207230It being free real estate is a good thing tho? You sound like the kind of autists who made the SCP adjacent schizo shit with an elaborate gay fanfic ARG using the backrooms.
>>218205010This. The absence of stimulus is the scarry part to generation Ipad.
>>218207361Yes anon being stuck in an endless labyrinth alone forever is the same as not having an iPad, you're very smart, not suffering from a brain amoeba at all.
>>218207361>scarryGood morning sir
>>218207436Cope harder, zoomer.
I get the vibe in video games, but outside of games it doesn't work for me. When I was kid playing games like Halo, getting outside the map in unfinished areas did feel isolating and creepy. But when you make it the "focus", its no longer unintended, so that feeling disappears.
>>218207647>le generation wars, waaah zoomer, boomer, oomerEither a psyoped NPC or a kike shill itself. Don't you have baby foreskin to chew on Shmuel?
>"18W T8's? Glad we got rid of those"
>>218204586>I'm a millennial so maybe it's different with zoomersIt's this. For some reason zoomers think shit like this and that terrible movie Skinamarink are terrifying. I honestly wonder if it's because it makes them imagine being cut off from tiktok and they literally can't handle it.
A dimension spawned from the thoughts of what it thinks is human.An experiment by scientists and corporate greed that they think they understand and have it under control but time moves differently, warps objects into monsters. Missing persons skyrocket world wide once they begin this project. Dieing, waiting to die in office rooms with no way out but death.List goes on.I recommend the current videos that Kane has already put out.
>>218207976No one liked Skinamarink, it didn't even hit 3.0 on letterboxd, the hipster central. It's basically a short movie the guy made previously stretched awkwardly to feature length. I would assume there are a couple of retards who think it's some avant-garde slow cinema, but those imbeciles never actually watched real avant-garde slow cinema.
>>218204637I like that one. It's comfy. Until you get to a dark corner or something. I don't like being unable to see what's in the water. I have no fucking idea how I ever swam in lakes when I was a kid.
For me it’s marble hornets
ITT
>>218208098There are retards here who defend it as revolutionary, as one of the scariest movies ever made. I know because I had to argue with them when I made a thread talking about how terrible it was after I watched it.
>>218207436anon we're talking about people who get "creeped out" by sparsely decorated hallways.
>>218208241>admitting to watching Skibidi Toilet as a 25-30 year oldAre zoomers literally intellectually disabled?
>>218208263Liminal space shit implies empty hallways that go on forever and have nothing in them or have something in them with that something being some eldritch shit that you're lucky if it simply kills you. It's not literally any empty fucking room anywhere.
>>218206087Being alone would probably be worse in that case, but wouldn't make for a great 2 hours of movie
>>218208419>he said while watching tranime at 40
>>218208566It's 9 pm in Tel Aviv Ari, it's time to go to bed
>>218208241This is the first truly great anti millennial meme I've seen. Everything else seemed to copy complaining boomers in their 70s.Good work anon.
>>218205632lmao just bring some string lol it's that easy haha
>>218204637>closed spaces and waterIt's extremely arousing for me. Weirdly erotic. Strange sexual tension comes from this tiles.
Zoomers are horrified of having to get a job.
>>218205942>but none of these Americans understand subtletyFind a single "creepy" creepypasta from an american author, all of it just "*BOO*"
>>218208768You shouldn't be phoneposting at the counter wagie
>>218208768>Zoomers are horrified of not having a job.
every room you enter is increasingly smaller than the one you exited fromwhen you try going back the first room is somehow smaller than the secondand so on until the rooms are too small to even move in
>>218204586Watch the langoliers
>>218204586>Zoomers see this pic and piss and shit themselves in fear
>>218208243It has specific scenes that are scarier than anything I've seen in horror in decades, the mother under the bed scene is the best
>>218207203you're supposed to be UNSETTLED!!!! Think about the existential horror! now think about it summore! ok fine, heres a loud, ugly scary thing that chases you i guess.
>>218204586>IS THAT LIMINAL SPACE, AHHHHHHHHH IM GOING INSANE
>>218208754i know what you mean im that way too. I just start fantasizing about hot naked girls suddenly coming up from the depths and getting close to me and making out with me.
>>218204586What if The Cube but gay zoomer garbage
>>218208754cue the chill retrowave
>>218208754https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-M-l8z9UmdUremidns me of this meme song from back in the day
>>218207976Skinamarink is millennial.
>>218207244kek this
>>218204586Let's forget the monsters and "lore" for a minute and boil down the basic premise.It's about accidentally "noclipping" into an alternate dimension of a liminal space that goes on forever and you are utterly alone and there is ostensibly no escape. Are you asking "why is being lost and alone scary?" Do you need basic facets of the human condition explained to you like an alien?
>>218208754water in general is erotic. at least to me
The pool with the giant stature is creepy, the camera lense is similar P.T. which I find creepy. But yeah endless rooms and slowly going mad is rather dull, I think the zoomers want a blair witch without the witch.
>>218206087>and you're not aloneliterally the part that ruins itwhat if weird unsettling environment...... with SPOOOOKY MONSTERZ?
>>218206816Complete bullshit. Millennials are the ones who get the actual concept because it gives them weird 90s nostalgia vibes mixed with creeping horror elements, zoomers don't get it and so have filled it with retarded monsters.
>>218206816you need something dumb fuck. 90 mins of endless walking is boring.
Looks comfy to me.
>>218210511Yeah that one line from the original post poisoned the whole thing and now we have a lot of dopamine-addled zoomers like ITT who felt the need to add monsters and lore to something that was by itself an existentially scary concept. And now we have video games and fan media about people willingly spelunking the backrooms for fun, jesus wept.
>>218210524It wouldn't be 90 minutes of walking, it would be 90 minutes of someone descending into fear, despair, and madness from isolation and desperation to escape a place with seemingly no escape.
>>218210511this. the concept itself is unnerving, but then the monsters show up and its just cringe
>>218210606Me in the DMV renewing.
>>218204586I think the idea of "spaces that are normally occupied by people feel eerie when they are empty, even if / especially if they are not ruins" is probably ancient. I think many people have had dreams where they're wandering through an abandoned school or whatever. Or they've actually explored abandoned spaces and felt it in waking life. The earliest example in fiction I can think of is The Langoliers, but I'm sure it's many centuries older than that.
>>218210524Tell that to stalker
>>218210621Oh look somebody whose not a retard
>>218210606Sound like the Japanese short film haze 2005. I doubt the back rooms will be as kino but it's possible.
>Nobody ever comes in...>...nobody ever goes out.
>>218210621another good example would be "house of leaves". the backrooms are sort of derivative of that book
>>218206816Empty offices aren't scary lol, are you broccoli heads all faggots or something?
This little rich faggot ruined it by adding monsters Like these people never had sleep paralysis or a nightmare where you couldn't scream
>>218211120>Much of the film is described as footage from several ventures into a dark hallway which appears in the living room. Forbidden by Karen from entering, Navidson delegated exploration to a crew of professional explorers, who found, beyond the hallway, a maze-like complex containing an enormous spiral staircase which appears to descend endlessly. In the maze, the explorers recorded footage of a multitude of corridors and rooms, completely unlit and featureless, with smooth ash-gray walls, floors, and ceilings. The maze is said to be silent save for the sound of a periodic low growl, which is never fully explained.did they ever make a house of leaves movie? i feel like it would be a better "version" of the backrooms
>>218208419Skibidi toilet is most popular with the oldest zoomers and the youngest aoomers.
I wouldnt mind living there if i had food
>>218208754It's the smell for me. Something about chlorine gets me all horndogged out.
>>218211265It's not an empty office, hope this helps.
>>218210606Blair Witch Project already did it
>>218212050One of my favorite horror movies unironically
>>218211265Ah yes, broccoli haired zoomers and their love of psychological horror over jump scare monster bullshit.
>>218212120Innawoods kino
>>218211265I know you're just shitposting unless you actually just are this obtuse, but it's the idea of being lost alone and trapped somewhere with no way out that's the scary part, the yellow office is just the backdrop to a very old, very primal human fear. The bright buzzing fluorescent lights could potentially drive you insane even faster than normally which all fit in an office instead of a cave or some ancient ruins or a hedge maze.
>>218207203It's absolutely this, the tylenol has made them super sensitive to the flicker and hum of flourescent lights.
>>218212139You were the ones eating up FNAF jump scare bullshit like candy.
>>218212120Backrooms at its core is basically that plus the old Windows maze screensaver
ah shit
>>218204586I'm surprised that we haven't seen more anons claiming to be the one who posted the original image
>>218212418No, zoomers like psychological horror like the fear of being alone in liminal spaces. Millennials like FNaF.
>>218212418>>218212480
>>218210532kek
>>218210831this looks good
>>218211319There should always be a lurking threat, just out of sight. It was a poor choice to make them front and centre in nearly every video, so that nobody wanders the hallways for more than 5 minutes before encountering the weird noodle monsters.
>>218211265it's a modern interpretation of the endless dark forest
>>218211360>it would be a better "version" of the backroomsif they stick to the actual house stuff and ignore everything else yeah
>>218210620kek
why do some people on this board hate the backrooms concept so muchdon't get me wrong it's been memed to death and exploited to the point of absurdity by some of the lower quality "backrooms" content aimed at kids (I'm thinking of the 'backrooms slides' slop type videos), but the original baseline concept and certainly the interpretation that the Kane Pixels guy ran with are pretty great and interesting concepts which I find interesting and worth exploring. If anyone's not seen the actual Kane Pixels backroom series on youtube I highly recommend them.
>>218212620said interesting twice in a row so forgive my poor writing but you get the point
>>218212504good album
>>218210621I've had a recurrent dream since my childhood with the same woodland mansion, every time it comes back I see a new part of the place (rooms, basement tunnels etc) but have never once remembered seeing a person or even an animal, just wandering pointlessly. It comes around every year or so and when I wake up it feels more like a memory than a dream, pretty fun. I remember it started after I read one of those Lovecraft stories where the mc sees an ancient city in a dream and becomes obsessed with it, I was probably thinking about it a lot at the time.
>>218212620>why do some people on this board hate XYZHate is what we do here.
>>218212670I had to prove my millennial cred
>>218204586i only like the videos of the House of Leaves-esque research/science lore. the shaky cam SCP monster chases are not interesting to me
>>218212735I imagine your post is semi ironic but yeah pretty muchI'm of the opinion that /tv/ is basically the opposite, and yet exact equivalent, of r/films and other similar film-oriented subreddits, in that whilst discussion of films/tv on reddit suffers from retarded users finding even the worst slop worthy of undying praise, /tv/ similarly finds even the best of media worthy of scorn. One does nothing but eat shit, and the other does nothing but spit on feasts.
>>218212829>only like the videos of the House of Leaves-esque research/science lorethe guy who made those videos is the same guy making the movie in the OP
>>218212558i hate to keep bringing it up, but house of leaves did it better>the labyrinth is silent except for random low growls in the distance>exploration team finds their supply caches inexplicably destroyed>leader is convinced there is a creature>we never see it except for in the team leader's suicide video where he rants about being followed then offs himself, then a shadowy darkness snuffs out his flare and we only see darknessit was a good take on the minotaur
>>218212856kek I was actually thinking exactly that when I made the post
>>218212856And from the thesis and antithesis, we achieve synthesis
>>218204586It's the zoomer version of falling up into the sky or blinking and finding yourself miles under the sea.
>>218204586I'm a millennial too but here I can explain. Hollywood is dead. They're retarded. They have no ideas. They don't fucking care. Here's a creepy pasta movie made with blender.
>>218204637I thought the pool rooms were super comfy desu it would smell like chlorine though which sucks>>218208754kino
THAT WALLPAPER SUCKS ASS AND IS NOT LIMINAL IT IS GARISH AND IT INSISTS UPON ITSELF UNIRONICALLY
I have a horror movie idea. You're at the grocery store with your mom and you're in the checkout line and she leaves you with the cart to get one more thing...
>>218213189If nobody but you was there it wouldn't smell like chlorine. The "chlorine smell" is actually the smell caused by the chemical reaction of piss mixing with chlorine. A pool that smells like chlorine is a dirty pool, a pool that doesn't smell like chlorine is a clean pool. Even if both pools have the same amount of chlorine in them. Ever notice how the kiddy pool smells more like chlorine than the adult pool or the diving pool? That's because the kiddy pool is full of piss.
>>218213258...and then the line started fillin' up with monstas! MONSTAS!
>>218211265I have actually worked in very old office buildings that have layouts where you can't see the outside or exit at all. At best you can see a doorway but due to the angle all you seem to see is more of the same. Its a weird human response of being trapped in an environment where you can't see the outside which makes you anxious. You feel a tightness in your chest like its difficult to breath and you just want to get out. You can get the same anxiety feeling in a cave system.
>>218213258The Mist (2007)
>>218204586I just love liminal vibes. I think the moster kinda ruins it. I dont find it scary at all.
>>218204586It's a result of:>growing up on 3D videogames with "spooky" glitches>growing up in a society with dying/decaying semi-modern business and consumer buildings (office buildings and malls)>growing up with creepypastas>growing up with YouTube videos of urban explorers Even for people who didn't grow up with these things, there is still something unsettling about going into places like dead/dying malls, which are completely devoid of human activity and are beginning to decay, yet still retain enough vestiges of what they once were as to feel like gloomy reminders of the negative effects of the passage of time. And for the more explicit jumpscare aspect, there's still enough of a sense of life that you feel like someone or something could be quietly lurking around the corner.
>>218207976Skinamarink is good. Very late millenial here. Others would say early zoomer.
I've worked late in office buildings before, and I think some of the noises that the HVAC system makes are spooky, as are the elevator rumbles in the distance as custodial staff go back and forth (but you can never be quite sure it's really the custodial staff). Also in many buildings the lights all turn off except in the area where you are, cause they're motion activated.
>>218213293It's standing water in a dark room it's going to smell fucking horrible. There's no UV.
>>218208870>Zoomers are horrified of not having enough money to live, but they also don't wan to treated like slavesftfy
>>218213402kino >>218213349The cashier is the monster at the end of the movie
>>218213527Well then, you shouldn't have wasted all that money on food, me thinks, young man.
>>218213513true but it won't have the chlorine smell
>>218213704I think the standing water organic matter would make it smell if there was chlorine tho. Even without the pee and sweat I am definitely going to add.
>>218210621Not really. My mum was employed as a cleaner for a while when I was a kid and she'd have to bring me along sometimes and my dad also had to take me into work outside hours sometimes so I spent plenty of time walking around empty schools and office buildings at night and never thought it was scary.
>>218212418I fucking hate video games
>>218204586It's not a stupid "liminal space" thing, it's being trapped somewhere and not knowing how to get out kind of thing, combined with the possibility there's something dangerous lurking around as well.
>>218214305it is literally a liminal space thing
Kids ruined the original concept of what the backrooms were. The horror came from not knowing if there were monsters or not.
>>218214434I chuckled at this.
>>218212701I sometimes had dreams when I was a kid in which I would be wandering around giant deserted or almost entirely deserted libraries or bookstores and I'd find all kinds of books that seemed like they would explain tantalizing mysteries of the universe, but then when I would try to leave with them or buy them, I would wake up or the dream would shift from under me. I think I had these dreams before I read Lovecraft, although I can't be certain of that. In any case, it makes sense that I got really into Lovecraft.
>>218213804Yeah, I wasn't trying to imply that everyone thinks empty spaces are eerie. Just that it's common.
>>218214617I used to have a recurring dream of the most ghetto apartment building I ever lived in one year but it's huge and dark and liminal in the dream and I find myself thinking "I don't live here anymore why is my stuff here" and I hear noises in the hall that stretches on for hundreds of feet but I never see people and I worry about someone coming in. I also had a dream recently where I became lucid and I was in the middle of an empty concrete area that went on as far as the eye could see. I thought "cool im lucid how do I get some babes here" and then I saw a solitary shadowy figure standing in the distance and it felt menacing and I woke up. IDK how you make this feeling come across in a movie though it would just be boring.
>>218214617I hate that feeling of coming close to some deep understanding but waking up right when you feel it coming, dream blueballs.One day I woke up, thought about the upcoming day for a bit and when I went to the lightswitch instead of turning on the lightbulb it made the existing darkness of the room turn into a kaleidoscope-like array of colors projected all over the walls. And then I woke up, just like in the movies a dream within a dream. That's the weirdest one I ever had.man I miss when there were /dream/ generals on /x/ like around 2009-10, just anons talking about weird dreams they had with the usual larpers trying to convince people they were a prophet
>>218214784I had a dream once where I was running endlessly on this trail in the forest along with other teens my age, over hours and hours. The trail looks a lot like the one the MC runs along at the beginning of Silence of the Lambs. Some would stumble and get back up, but some would also just lie down and give up. For some reason in the dream I knew this meant they would soon die and felt desperately that I needed to keep running. After a while of this, I see a finish line, finally. Only when we get to the finish line, there are figures with faces I just can't make out waiting for us, one has a chronometer and takes down our time and a photo, the time and photo are jotted down on a paper which he hands over to another blurred figure who puts it up on a board, the rest of them look at the board and discuss it briefly before saying 'you have to go again'. The ones who can't get back up are taken away, I know they are as good as dead. I get up and start running as best as I can but I know I will soon collapse. That's when I woke up. I remember it stayed with me all day, like those dreams where you feel weeks have passed and the return to wakefulness feels wrong. I'd forgotten all about it forever but I used to keep a dream diary back then and when I watched The Long Walk it came back to me so I went back to the diary to check if I was just imagining the dream.
>>218210403If there true is no way out and nothing in there you die of dehydration in a couple days.
>>218212670NoGay
>>218205942>>218204725The concept is obvious, but the execution is using web-format for "found footage" that's framed more like widescope film cameras. Subtlety is for HD quality you can be immersed/trapped by the onscreen elements. A little web video window doesn't have the atmosphere -- except for gamers
>>218204586Certain kinds of spaces have an identifiable vibe to them. Places like hotel or hospital corridors, or air ports, or basically any big place intended for lots of people to travel through but not necessarily to stay in. When places like that are empty, they look kind of lonely and creepy. Writing creepypasta using those areas as a setting became a fad like a decade ago and now Hollywood, like always, is attempting to capitalize on that way, way afterwards.
>>218215524All "liminal spaces" are is just a place that we expect to see people in but is empty instead. That trope has been around forever. It's why abandoned buildings are common locations in horror.
>>218215551Oh for sure, but "the backrooms," as, like, a subgenre with its own particular tropes and quirks became a thing more recently. Abandoned hospitals and empty hotels have been settings for horror movies since forever (just look at The Shining).
>>218204586I hate faggots like this "HURR ME NO UNDASTAND DA YOUNG PEEPOL" when it is just basic "uncomfortable eerie feeling" horror. Or are you a nigger and don't remember what you had for breakfast?And I am 31 with 3 kids before you call me a zoomer. I am just not a retard. It's not the height of horror content but it makes sense if you think about it for longer than 5 seconds (assuming an IQ above room temperature.) Fake outrage is reddit-tier.
>>218215823>born in 1995In some jurisdictions that qualifies. It's either 95 or 97 that is the cutoff in most counties. You at least got touched by the zooms.
>>218216110It's 96-97. 1995 is the last hard millennial year.
>>218216265Okay, but I've got my eye on you.
>>218206816I didn’t mention monsters at all. Imagine being scared of an empty room. >Muh constant stimulation
>>218204586Im going to predict the plot. An IRL protagonist has to go into the backrooms to find another IRL character and save them and bring them back to the real world. It will start in NYC or something then go into backrooms then back into the big USA city after nearly dying to escape.
>>218216556I have been in a psych ward at least two times, and in both times I had to force myself to get some sort of stimuli by talking with other fuckwits that also happen to be in those "hospitals". Being stripped of all the things that give you connection and comfort is a fucking universal truth, and if you can't get it then you are a legit retard!Good day sir!
Zoomer horror is simply inaccessible to millenials. Gen Z does not resonate with oldschool horror because getting beheaded by an axe murderer is preferable to simply existing in a modern digital hellscape. That's why most gen Z horror revolves around themes of lost time, emptiness, and an unstable reality. You're thinking too literally if you think the physical room itself is supposed to be scary, it's unsettling because it's supposed to look intimately familiar but alien at the same time. Sorry, you're an unc now.
>>218216768> Gen Z does not resonate with oldschool horror because getting beheaded by an axe murderer is preferable to simply existing in a modern digital hellscape.This kind of navel gazing depression flies out the window as soon as a heckin monsterino rips your cock off
>>218216785It's literally true though, slasher films are exclusively a boomer phenomenon. The only notable modern slasher is Terrifier which is half comedy and also made by a Gen X.
>>218216785Yeah, which is hopefully something that they include into the movie because it would then otherwise mess the original purpose of the Backrooms in regards to what made it appealing in the first place.
>>218215179There’s rooms with water. It would be starvation that gets you.
>>218213464Another good analysis. Im actually excited especially since the whole thing was a meme
>>218208754>
>>218216265It's always been 1996. 96 and beyond you're still in zoomer communications, even with people born in 2001
>>218216820no
>>218216837shits gonna suck anyway>>218217432omg who the hell cares
>>218204586Some retarded zoomer booted up Gmod one day and got into gm_construct all alone and thought it was the scariest shit ever madeThat's how it all started
Jesus fuck people, it ain't that deep. It's popular on the internet, they made a movie about it on the cheap to cash in.
>>218217432Im zoomer gf swears im a millennial because I was born in 96 which she alleges is the cutoff
>>218215179Is dying of dehydration not scary? What's your point here?
>>218217787You're both zoomers
>>218217875but they're 30 so they're boomer grandpas now
>>218204725>i dont mind the idea, the whole thing feels like an offshoot of cosmic horror to me. the addition of monsters is stupid though and ruins the concept.This. The whole point of the original idea was the unknown, if you remove that, then the idea falls apart and it isnt as scary. It also doesnt help most of us are pretty desensitised already to 'scary monster' due to popular horror media.
>>218208241Neofolk is nice.
it is supposed to build dread. jump scares were becoming really popular and jump cuts became overused. the backrooms is one long jump cut - what if we made the jump 15 mins and the cut a frantic 20-30 seconds of the monster chasing you. unfortunately a lot of zoomers played around with psychedelics and lucid dreaming because they wanted to be cool, and what happens when you enter a lucid / liminal space of consciousness is that it is largely depopulated but looks a lot like the real world, and then something starts chasing you (if you are a virgin) and you need to get the fuck out of there before it catches you so you run. the basic experience:>enter a place you're not supposed to>it's empty, quiet, too quiet>you heard something in the distance approaching quickly>holy shit it's coming>runthe decline in religion means that human cities / spaces are no longer being protected by religious adepts, praying, meditating and creating a psychic shield. so there is general encroachment from the wilderness, where those things were pushed out to in previous centuries (the air, the water, the mountains, the forests).
>>218211265dumbest hair I ever saw
>>218217787She's right.You can't type though.
>>218209519>>218208754This is literally Atlantis calling for us, because private cove sex with a woman sounds so natural.
>>218208241Zoomers are literally boomers now and they shit their pants over remakes of millennial video games.
>>218209485>the mother under the bed sceneSounds incredibly lame desu
>>218210277every comment is like "omgz this video traumatized me!">>218210342no
>>218210442moisture is the essence of wetness
>>218204586>slightly disconcerting that’s the point horror doesn’t have to be jump scares and gore backrooms will be 90 minutes of escalating discomfort and dread
>>218210511I like unexplainable sounds and the feeling of being watched but "monster chases u horror slop game" is gay.
>>218210519Yep, they think being chased in a horror slop video game is the scariest thing ever.
>>218208754this is cooler and easy on the eyes than the yellow backrooms. just the color would give me a headache after an hour.
>>218208754>start hearing noises>start seeing shadows out of corner of eye or did I?>tired and hungry should I go to sleep>am I really alone?>spongebob screamer jumpscare he starts chasing me>it's not spongebob it's freakybob!>my broccoli hair stands on end
>>218215179Dying of dehydration or starvation is scary. You can also imagine that because the whole backrooms shit doesn't really function by real world physics you might actually not be able to get thirsty or hungry and supernaturally kept alive for eternity in this empty complex with nothing in it. Or maybe something in it but that something is some eldritch shit that might subject you to some unknown fate worse than death. I don't know why is it so hard to understand all the shit that can potentially be scary in this setting.
>>218219726>Dying of dehydration or starvation is scary.It's also extremely fucking boring and takes days.
I distinctly remember one time as a kid being in a small room with relatively loud fluorescent lights buzzing in the background while I just sat there waiting for something. The walls were white with no windows and everything just felt artificial and deeply uncomfortable to little me. I feel like I'm the only one who actually understood the original post because everyone else just focuses on the noclipping out of reality aspect. That being said, it's not something that can be turned into a horror movie so it's going to be an uninspired cashgrab.
>>218210519The original /x/ post was most likely made by a millenial anon, and that features an implication of a monster. And having a monster doesn't necessarily devalue the scare factor if the creature doesn't just like stab and kill you but subjects you to some worse than death fate.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D0GmfBpBBfwkino
>>218219770What if the monster is realizing that it smells like fish real bad cuz some pranksters hid fish everywhere.
>>218219733Well that's why the stuff that expands on the setting in some narrative form usually adds more shit to it. The "Backrooms wiki" was retarded SCP autism, but the movie being made is more subtle and not just GIANT MOTH THAT SPITS ACID AND YOU FUCKING DIE + giant interlinking multipage ARG about a toxic relationship of two homosexual creatures from the Backrooms (that shit was actually on the now nuked Backrooms wiki, no joke).
>>218219726Another element is that the backrooms look like regular rooms (usually), so an exit seems reasonable to assume. Even of you get lost in a big building you'll find your way out within the hour. But in the backrooms the odds are you won't find any exit, probably not even if you were given 10 days to explore without starvation. You'll be constantly wondering where you are, where is the exit, where is everyone, how'd I end up here, etc. And eventually get too low on energy desperately seeking an exit that you'll die, still with those questions on your mind.
I also lack the mental faculties to understand why it would be scary to be suddenly dropped into an infinite randomly generated nonsense maze that looks like it should be man-made but somehow isn't. I also fail the breakfast test. #ProudMillennial #FuckZoomers
>>218220001unc crashin out!
>>218220001This movie is going to suck dick and you know it.
>>218204586Millennial and I don’t get the hubbub over the back rooms either. It’s just a bunch of rooms with yellow wallpaper. Who the fuck gonna be in there? Now, urban or suburban liminal spaces i get more so the creepiness of it. There could be crackheads behind any directory sign, booth, or mop bucket. And they are actually places that were once filled with life and are now symbols of the United States rotting away. What the fuck some empty rooms with some bland yellow wallpaper symbolize?
>>218220135I night walked in the suburbs for like 6 years straight without seeing a single person and then one night I saw a boomer walk across the street in new balances and tube socks at 3am and it startled me
>>218220135>places that were once filled with life and are now symbols of the United States rotting awayThis is a big genre for online photography sites. I've seen ones in Europe, US, Taiwan...and Japan just recently. Oddly Japan's are the least depressing, bc their greenery just take over anything not getting regular maintenance, and they do resemble the dilapidated places in the short-lived J-horror. Their bubble economy left a lot of these hotels, spas, businesses that couldn't be sustained yet with no buyers. https://haikyo.info/
>>218220551Japanese ghost towns are pretty sad. At least when you go into the houses and they're still full of the former residents' belongings but everything is on the floor and broken. The bugs are pretty annoying too.
>>218220551Have you heard of Thomassons, or Hyperart Thomassons, before? That is a fun branch of JP photography I became interested in that is semi-related to what you are talking about.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperart_ThomassonI like seeing abandoned buildings, especially malls. They remind me of the places in my dreams.
I have hope it wont be utterly dogshit, did enjoy youtube dudes story about mall didn’t watched back rooms
>>218220093It might, but I'm optimistic. He's shown a good grasp of storytelling with Backrooms and Oldest View. We'll see how that translates into a professional feature film.
This reminds of the Matt Smith Doctor Who episode the God Complex, don't reckon I'll be watching the Backrooms movie but that episode had a lot of similar stuff going on.
>>218220854I'm a millennial and I get the appeal of liminal spaces but I don't really see how it could be an entire movie... I could see liminal spaces being used as a setting for a movie or maybe just part of a movie but straight up "backrooms movie where you get chased by an SCP" sounds so fucking cringe it's just like a horrorslop kusoge. IDK if that's what this will be.
>>218204586>Can someone explain how this is a horror movie?its a bad dream you cant wake up from
>>218221168I will just go to sleep then.
>>218221148There isn't that much chasing in his YouTube videos, and being chased by a monster isn't the point.
>>218221224thats the thing though, you going to sleep will make you think everything's gonna get better when you wakeit doesnt get better
>>218221148In Kane Pixel's Backrooms videos I can easily see an hour and a half movie.>20 minutes establishing the setting, Async, backrooms creation, concept, etc.>20 to 30 minutes focused on first exploring the backrooms, establishing characters>10 minutes of drama (project is going to be shut down, entity appeared while exploring, etc.)>20 minutes of more exploration, character moments>10 minutes of tension/chase sequence>10 minutes of conclusion, possible set-up for future videos
>>218212418>FNAFUnc game
>>218204586Ok
>>218212418This third worlders shit, clinging on to one media and shitting on the kids for liking kid stuff
>>218221253>art imitates life>>218221303yeah that sounds like a shitty youtube video not a movie
Lmao. This thread is just baboons screeching into the wind.
>>218221421Well the movie is a continuation of his youtube video series. I don't think its much of a stretch to combine several of his videos and make a 90 minute movie out of it. Have you seen them? I don't mean a backrooms videos (there are tons of horrible ones out there), I mean specifically the Kane Pixel backrooms videos. It'll hopefully be like those.I hope the movie's good like his videos are. I'm more worried about the studio not giving him creative freedom like he should be getting. Hopefully the studio is smart enough not to do that.
>>218221503I found it rather cordial
>>218221513No I'm not familiar with him. I will check it out.
>>218221531NTA but his first Backrooms video is like what you'd expect a Backrooms video to be. It's after that he starts working on something more substantial. The Oldest View is also interesting though overly long.
>>218208754>>218211705>tfw never had sex in a poolSo much wasted time...
nigga u gay if you EVER thought ANY horror movie was literally 'scary'. you're supposed to suspend disbelief and maybe get intoxicated and let the atmosphere of the flick do its worst, which is be spoopy at best and jump scare you while disarmed at worst. that said, theres a certain legitimate 'horror' element to backrooms that genuinely qualify it being its own genre. theres something ominous about the combination of new/pristine/vacant/empty that gives it a feel of both inviting and worth exploring but also 'who the fuck designed (especially the LACK of features) this place and for what, that simultaneously makes it feel like a trap. that said, the fact that it could be something thats located in any building in your neighborhood (ffs i literally work somewhere that has a literal vacant backroom/office that go in and out of regularly and it creeps me out) adds a certain level of tangible proximity the same way that very real crime statistics put you on edge at a least a little in certain settings. its a genuinely interesting direction for the horror genre in the modern era where we know monsters are real.
>>218216768but liminal spaces are not even a gen z invention lmao, the gen xers already had this concept, they are the poor man's version of that 90s manga called blame! which has a better concept and story overall
>>218208494>>he said while watching tranime at 40Yeah, so what?Are you gay?
>>218208494anime sucks but its better than skibidi 67
>>218204586>It's slightly disconcerting at worst.it's a subtle horror rather than spoon-fed slasher faggotry. The big question is whether it'll find it's mark with audiences. My guess is no.
>>218219741>That being said, it's not something that can be turned into a horror movieYou just lack imagination since it's already been done before and without any monsters>>218219770Monsters are a lazy crutch for people with a very narrow view of what horror can be or what they personally consider to be "scary"
>>218219741flourescent lights were so fucking shitty and unnatural looking they were definitely liminal >>218222920anon canceled monsters
>>218204586Zoomers are so over socialized and over simulated that an empty, quiet building is the most terrifying thing they can think of.
>>218223046You can leave an empty building or wait for people to show up. You can't leave the backrooms and it's really unlikely you'll meet anyone else.
>>218204586It's about trying to place yourself in that situation. Imagine suddenly waking up in an environment that you know nothing about. Just endless halls, no context to anything, complete isolation, strange noises, nowhere to run. An endless maze to traverse and then suddenly you get attacked for no reason by some obscure object with, again, no real way to escape. All you can possibly do is delay the inevitable.It's a simple concept really and I'm curious to see how they can stretch it to a full movie, but I fail to see how you can't fibd the horror in this
>>218208754I got the reference
Regardless of how adaptable a concept like the backrooms is for film, get prepared for this movie to set off a trend of Hollywood adapting these internet “analog horror” concepts into movies. Which really started with Skinamrink.
>>218204775Kill yourself faggot
any word that ends with -oomer should be a bannadbe offense
The concept is creepy becuase you read it on 4chan and your imagination ran wild. What zoomers need is a good short horror story and not a full length hollywood production.
>>218223290I really like the idea of Skinamarink and the entire hazy child nightmarish atmosphere they were going for. I just wish they opted for a bit more storytelling because they went WAY overboard the the static shots. 90% of the movie truly nothing was happening.The 'look under the bed' scene was the absolute highlight and the rest is disposable.
>>218223046>Zoomers are so over socializedfalse
>>218207244it's supposed to be eerie and unsettling and nostalgic not terrifying
did zoomers like the blair witch project? it seems like it has almost everything that they are claiming to want in their horror
>another backrooms thread turned into generational shitflinging
>>218224850I mean there's a reason the Blair Witch Project is one of the most successful films of all time
>>218204586They remind me of the /comfy/ threads of 2015-2018. Not scary at all. C O M F YOMFY
I find most backrooms and liminal spaces comforting rather than explicitly scary, assuming I visit or leave at any time and wasn’t trapped there with some monster. Man I wish I could lucid dream regularly
>>218221513>Well the movie is a continuation of his youtube video series.from what I can see that isn't the case.
