What's the film equivalent?
>>221290774pretentious metafiction? picrel
The Kevin bacon horror film had a similar plot but they went nowhere with it. Backrooms was cool and succeeded.
Lake Mungo, Skinamarink, there was another but I've forgotten it
I read an interview a while ago where the author said he was watching weird eastern European films while working on the text. Stuff like Saragossa Manuscript, Visitor to a Museum, Solaris, etc. Those kinds of films aren't directly related to HoL in terms of plot, but the sense of overwhelming confusion and the dissolution of reality is a common theme.
>>221290774Backrooms
>>221290791>From the director of Her even though it predate Her by a decade That's a dumb way to advertise it.
>>221290774This house has people in it.Haunting on hill house.Requiem for a dream.Skinamarink.Gloryhole secrets: savannahs 3rd visit.
>>221290774Dark City?
>>221290774Obviously found footage.
Never here 2017 captures the foreboding and uncertainty of what lies in front of you.
>>221291211>but the sense of overwhelming confusion and the dissolution of reality is a common theme.Why are they like this? I watched at a young age, because it was on tv, some weirdass film about Yugoslavia, or not or whatever the fuck it turned into as in film some drunk guy even says>They is no more Yugoslavia!!and shoot people or whatever.The whole thing is like a fever dream to me, coupled with the fact that I'm half remembering shit from decades ago.
>>221290791>picks his only entertaining movie Why not name synecdoche new york
>>221290774I was just thinking of this the other day. If you ignore the book within a book part and focus on the found footage of the house investigation it could make a really good psychological horror or aesthetic horror movie. You could probably include the top level mc and the book stuff too, but it might confuse audiencesIf you wanted to go hog and be based though the trick would be finding a way to translate the ergodic literature / exotic layout part of HOL into movie form. No clue how you'd do that
>>221293984that's basically what they did with backrooms, made a watered down version of the navidson record
>>221294025>backroomsIs that any good? I figured it was just another moneygrab adaptation
>>221293246You may be thinking of director Emir Kusturica's 1995 classic 'Пoдзeмљe,' aka 'Underground,' aka 'Podzemlje'. And yes, it's exactly the kind of bizarre nightmare that might have influenced House of Leaves.
>>221290774You know exactly what the answer is, which is why you're posting this now. Don't try to be cute or clever, you ain't.
>>221294454They basically have nothing in common.House of Leaves isn't about a literal maze, but a metaphysical one that appears in different forms and manifests into any information relating to that maze. Record a video of yourself exploring it? The video will be edited to reflect events in it. When someone dies in the video, you will experience a death in real-life. It's a self-perpetuating pattern, not the real-life equivalent of an out of bounds area. It's also, unironically, traumaslop, and one of the earliest examples of traumaslop actually.
