wait... wtf is the point of the backrooms if you can just... leave?
overrated pointless movie with shit characters
>>221770582The idea alluded to in the webseries is that the outdoor world is also an extension of the backrooms and that the same laws can apply, including "falling into" the backrooms.
>>221770636this. the hype threads didnt feel organic.
plot conveniencehow do you get other characters in if there's no clear entry point?
>>221770582Most people can't "just leave," most people fall in and there's no clear way out. Clark is just uniquely lucky that he found an entrance that he can simply exit from (and yes, that is largely just to tell the story, thank you >>221770775), and also uniquely unlucky to let his fascination with the place turn into obsession. If you watched the webseries, most people who fall in are rightfully terrified of the location and desperate to escape, they just never do. ASYNC are the only other people to have a stable doorway in and out of the Complex, and they had to build a whole thing to do it.
Why was there a fucking tall Napoleon monster
>>221770960none of that is in the movie
>>221770960fair enough desu, I thought it's an enter and never ever ever leave type thing
>>221771024It's in the short films that preceded the movie
>>221770960>Most people can't "just leave," most people fall in and there's no clear way out. Clark is just uniquely lucky that he found an entrance that he can simply exit from (and yes, that is largely just to tell the story, thank you >>221770775), and also uniquely unlucky to let his fascination with the place turn into obsession. If you watched the webseries, most people who fall in are rightfully terrified of the location and desperate to escape, they just never do. ASYNC are the only other people to have a stable doorway in and out of the Complex, and they had to build a whole thing to do it.So it's like falling into the land of the Fae except there are no fairies trying to steal your name. Zoomers repackaging the old and calling it new again. Fun thought along this line, boomers can't stand the thought of anything existing after their deaths and zoomers can't stand the thought of anything existing before their births.
What makes zoomers so terrified of big empty rooms? Psychologically speaking, what's going on there?
What happens when you take a monster out of the rooms?>>221771182It's a prime spot for something to hide in, when it's uncanny and unfamiliar ofc, unlike say your own empty house, but try going to a mall that's abandoned or smth like that, nothing creepier, they are places that are usually filled w people
>>221771182pic related, all you need to know
>>221771182Its like fearing the dark, its uncertain and there could be something hiding inside it
>>221771338Meh, forests have activity, animal noises etcbut imagine a forest with 0 animal noises, that'd be extremely unsettling, and it's a common tropethe man made nature of backrooms locations make them more uncanny and spooky, you know someone ought to have put em there yet where are they? Where is anyone?
>>221770636Actually decent characters, but the movie is sure overrated.
>>221770582The whole thing is such a shit concept. Nothing about it is remotely scary.
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>>221771475idk man the movie had some spooky scenesanalogue horror can be scary, check out that shit with the rolling giant in the mallhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g-ktmYbFVwIthis is one of hte creepiest things on youtube
>>221771243There's nothing creepy about an empty mall.
>>221771338>being afraid of a seemingly-infinite unnatural space is totally comparable to this neurotic case that's scared of trees
>>221771415>but imagine a forest with 0 animal noises, that'd be extremely unsettling, and it's a common tropeYou mean a normal forest? They're pretty quiet. The animals in the forest are trying not to bring attention to predators so they're quiet.
>>221771608watch that and reconsider>>221771551
>>221771643no faggot forests are filled w insect noisesI'm talking a 100% silent forest which is an ill omen on many occasions
>opening voiceover: "we are all stuck in an endless loop...some kind of LIMINAL space...">main character watching a TV ad: "Have you been feeling listless lately? Like you live in a room plastered with monotonous yellow wallpaper? Ask your doctor about ZORGDRIL">main character listening to the car radio: "You're listening to 98.7 KRQX, here to save you from the humdrum BACKROOMS of reality with that sweet seventies rock">Billboards, posters, flyers all shoving the same messageHOW ABOUT USING THE MEDIUM OF FILM TO CONVEY YOUR IDEAS YOU FUCKING HACK
>>221770999It's an ottoman pirate it's the backrooms reflection of Clark
>>221771551>>221771648Ok. I just skipped around it. Boring as shit.
babby's first non-euclidean dungeon crawl.
>>221771415>>221771614Listen zoomie troonie, an empty gm_construct is not scary and never has been scary, okay?
>>221771681Oh no peace and quiet. Terrifying stuff.
>>221770582Honestly I admire the movie's restraint of namedropping "Backrooms" because I really thought they were going to do it
>>221771752>I ruined a short horror story w buildup by skimming through itok retard, only video media u should skip around is porn
>>221771378>something hiding in a well-lit empty room
>>221771689i kept thinking>i'd rather them lay on the metaphors this thick, than not have them at alland holy fuck have my/our standards plummeted.
>>221771752>I was looking at my phone through half the movie
>>221771771Of course not, gm_construct is home nothing alien about itNow play fy_survivor or those other massive goldsrc maps with ambiance on an empty server in a dark room
>>221771802>>221771830Oh damn did I miss out on some bone chilling empty hallways??
>>221771789Nigga have you been outside?
>>221770745the real world is the backrooms now? that negates the whole idea that they exist outside of reality. every time this parsons retard tries to expand the lore it becomes worse
>>221771850Yes, I go hiking quite regularly actually. Somehow I've survived walking around in these forests that terrify you lol
>>221770960>>221770582>>221770745The doctor at the end also says there are doors opening up all around the world and they don't know why, so these perma doors are becoming common place.
>>221771848it's slow burn ambient horror mostly smth ur ass is too stupid to process apparently, u got filtered it's ok
>>221771908oh no no no you missed the subtext and subtlties of a room being empty! It's empty! Ah I'm slowly losing my mind!
>>221771883Dude said, "COMPLETE silence." As in, not even the ambient noise you'd hear in the woods that's comforting. No birds, no bugs, no babbling brooks. It's seriously like you're just trying to strawman any reason why the Backrooms, as a concept, could make for good horror.
I liked it :) I enjoyed the exploration, and the concept of iterative, matryoshka-esque degenerative rooms getting a little more wrong each time. It felt like a movie that was made with a solid amount of skill and a high degree of passion, and it was enjoyable to learn some of the “rules” of the backrooms. Some of the character development felt on the weaker side, and I think the run time could have been lengthened a little bit with some more scenes in both worlds, but no movie is perfect. It feels like (you) just don’t like movies, anons. What is the last movie you truly LOVED? When is the last time you felt excited by kino?
>>221771968u wouldn't get it bro
>>221771243>What happens when you take a monster out of the roomsThey did that at the end. You see the body of the Captain on a slab as she's being ushered out at the end.
>>221771975Complete silence? Now I'm going to shit my pants. Holy shit
kek this really is just the>a Lovecraftian cube...with FIVE sides?!?!shit from decades ago, isn't it?
>>221771981Nobody who comes here to make a thread about backrooms or obsession actually likes movies
>>221770636>overratedI'm willing to bet you have a skewed 1-10 rating and misunderstand rotten tomatoes ratings
>>221771825there are corners and tight bends everywhere, you can't see fully what's ahead of you and imagine traversing a labyrinth with the lurking fear that a minotaur is either around the next bend or following you
Good movie, overhated
>>221772065>don't think the empty rooms are scary?>well how about we put a monster in the empty room!Sounds like you're just scared of the monster.
>>221772110the idea of the monster is scarythe environment does all the work
>>221771338All redditards need to be murdered
>>221770582There's a reason they focused on a particular type of character that uses them as a form of escapism, not that it needs to be reiterated but the backrooms (in the context of the movie as it relates to the black guy) are basically a metaphor for wallowing in self-pity. It's why his doppelganger eats him when the therapist gives him a reality check
>>221772126the environment is an empty room lol
>>221772134>It's why his doppelganger eats him when the therapist gives him a reality checkso to be safe he has to keep wallowing?
>>221772134whoa that's so fucking deep
>>221772147Alright you're just baiting at this point stop trying to rationalize an irrational fear fag
>>221772153More or less, because as soon as his doppelganger senses he's changed it'll know he wants to escape>>221772169Never said it was deep, it's just what the movie hits you over the head with (to a fault) time and time again so it's surprising OP missed it
>>221772134he doesn't seem to wallow in self-pity, though. you can write a blubbering addict who'll beg, borrow, and steal, but they didn't do that. he seems pretty intelligent and self-aware, he's not denying his own shortcomings or anything? the crazy lady just SAYS he is.maybe a scene was missing...?
>>221772185BOO!
>>221772252shit wtf man
>>221772209>he's not denying his own shortcomings or anything?>I AM AN ARCHITECT DAMN IT!
>>221772209>he's not denying his own shortcomingsIn both roleplay sessions he blames his ex for literally everything that's gone wrong in his life, the only self-awareness he shows is his faux-introspective "I'm just wired this way" which in itself absolves him of all responsibility. This is like his defining character trait I have no idea why this is being debated over
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>>221770636This. It was complete shit. This movie is the new bad taste litmus test.
>>221772252fucking spoiler that shit man
>>221772276i mean he is just wired that way. that's rational and grown-up.i dunno, it seems easy to say a young director and 20something co-writer just lack life experience, but maybe it really is that straightforward. he outright hedges shit, like>inb4 you say i'm an alcoholic, yeah, i know i am.dude is absolutely fine, but the script treats it like he's not. and speaking as someone with a counselling degree, she fucking sucks as a therapist (gestaltfags pls go.)
>>221771182The fear is the idea of being trapped in there with no escape, the interest came from the fact that it's an unusual, but all too familiar idea for an otherworldly prison. When I saw the image back then, it reminded me of what funeral homes feel like.
>>221772350the movie was a decent flick you whiny fags
>>221772500It further solidified my suspicion the director is a cryptojew.
>>221772448>she fucking sucks as a therapistI agree and I have this problem with therapists in most films desu, not to mention she's only given the bare essentials to give her an "arc" and barely feels like a developed character. Not that the black guy is that much more interesting despite him being given all the screentime, it feels very screenplay 101 stuff where the characters are written to serve a purpose or put across an idea but barely feel like organic three-dimensional humans
I finished this movie and got a really weird noise coming from somewhereIt was my neighbors dog outside my window
>>221772674you're in a truman show and we're actors
>>221771981>When is the last time you felt excited by kino?Last month.
>>221770582>wait... wtf is the point of the backrooms if you can just... leave?In the backrooms: Anxiety being in the 'back rooms' Outside of the backrooms: Anxiety knowing that the backrooms exist
>>221772000i thought that lab was built in the backrooms.
>>221772252Classic internet meme from the 'before times'.
this whole fucking concept is just a shallow, aesthetically masturbatory version of the red room/black lodge from twin peaks. its insane what people praise as novel nowadays. is it just lack of exposure to anything beyond whats at the absolute tip or what?
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>>221770775That's easily solved by making it like quicksand. I.e. You can get in but you can't get out. The whole idea originally was that you just glitched into an "off the map" artifact like in a video game. It could easily be solved by having other people go looking for the first person. Honestly, the easiest way would probably be to have someone have already been in there that the MC encounters, making them the fish out of water audience surrogate, and then have the MC's love interest go looking for them and accidentally glitch into it later, as well. Then, you have a satisfactory number of people in the Backrooms and don't have to go through the trouble of coming up with convuluted ways to get multiple people into there. Bonus points if at the end the girl live interest somehow glitches back to the real world but then every so often she opens a door and it leads to the Backrooms, forcing her to have to close and reopen it to change it back. Like she's living in a corrupted save file or something.
>>221772126Eh, it reminds me of a story my Uncle told me about my Dad when he took him fishing as a kid in the 80's. My Dad was doing that kid thing where he was talking about kid things and asked him "Wouldn't it be scary if Freddy (Kruger) jumped out of the water?"Then after thinking about it he guy himself all worked up and scared. My Uncle thought it was silly because he's an old dog that grew up poor in the 50's & 60's so be just thought of movies as silly stories and was like: "Well, obviously that's not going to happen. You need to stop thinking about fantasies and live in reality." I wouldn't say that movies or anything aren't cool, but there's definitely a reality check moment there where you have to realize a lot of people spend a majority of their time interacting with and consuming fiction rather than the real world and that can lead to a skewed perception. Obviously a giant mishappen monster isn't going to come out from around the corner, those things don't exist and there's nothing scary about an office room or a mall because it's just a business structure someone built for some reason and must be in use otherwise it would be in disrepair and the lights and water wouldn't work.
>>221772185The irrational fear is supposed to be getting trapped somewhere that you can't leave and not being able to make the most of it because there's someone dangerous that's trapped with you, with nothing being scarier, but that kind of thing only really works in a brief caption rather then as a full functional story, especially a visual based one
>>221773100Backrooms is really the ultimate culmination of chan culture of you think about it. In a way, it's always been here. Though I will say I feel like a missing part of it is that grimy almost third world feel that opens itself to allowing something messed up to happen. It's like how in Texas Chainsaw Massacre they're just at a little house in Texas that a local family lives in but the family are inbree cannibal freaks who can only be that way because they live in the middle of nowhere or like a LiveLeak video where it's just a regular workplace but since it's a poor developing nation something horrible is going to happen.
>>221771182Flourecent lights, wallpaper, carpeted floors, they were all made to make you more comfortable on your working enviroment. You also had paintings on the walls, cozy sits, big wooden tables. All that is complete cozyness.Zoomer don't want that. Because it signals, that everything else given, you have to do your job now.Zoomers want mental cozyness. For a working enviroment to feel comfortable they need a yoga area, a dinning area, place to stretch their legs, a coffeshop nearby, place for a brunch, a pool table.Because they don't work, they do shit work, they go to adult daycare because their jobs are made up. So in their work enviroment they need to FEEL like they are doing a lot of different small things (because they are doing nothing).The backrooms is a complete place without them, it doesn't need them and they can't "do" anything there.If you take a backroom, strip HALF the carpet floor, put on 20 yoga mats on the side, a coffee machine on the other side, and a bar with nothing but stools at the end, they won't fear it. Because they'll have meaningless things to "do"
>>221771643>You mean a normal forest? They're pretty quiet.Not really
>>221770582Captain Clark's life sucks and then all of a sudden he has to deal with the death of his 2 employees, he's not exactly thrilled about returning to the surface and facing the music.
why did pirate clark eat clark anyway?also pirate clark clearly bled, but those other entities didn't bleed even when clark literally took a piece out of them to eatwhat do they taste like?
>>221771415That's because it would be unusual, while for an office it's not unusual to hear pretty much nothing but the buzzing of lights or the sound of computers running. The office building I work in is pretty much the backrooms most of the time.
>>221770582niggas be curious
>>221774058the pirate bleeding threw me off.
>>221770582No one left
>>221770999Captain Clark is the mascot of the furniture store, remember the whole scene where he's filming the commercial and stumbling around with that stupid cheap costume and fake peg-leg, then the chair breaks as soon as he sits on it and he gets all pissed off?The monster was a reflection of Clark's own frustration and anger. He wanted to be a succesful architect, but because of his cunt wife he was stuck playing a Pirate Clown which was like hell to him. That's why the monster took that shape, and was initially "friendly" to him
>>221774058>what do they taste like?Crisco and string
>>221774058It ate him because he wanted to let the woman leave. >also pirate clark clearly bled, but those other entities didn't bleed even when clark literally took a piece out of them to eatSeems like actual monsters that are born from people who fall into the backrooms physically are a bit different, they're more flesh and blood. The furniture-people are just copies-of-copies of people it "remembers" - Clark's wife specifically, and he even says about the other 2 guys "somewhere there's a guy out there who looks like this, I guess" I bet they taste like marshmallow fluff
>>221772867God, they don't even bother animating this shit anymore. It's just sliding stills and two frame loops in stagnant environments. They should make a liminal horror out of this garbage.
>>221771182Zoomers live in an age of constant digital stimulation. This has rewired their brains to require constant engagement. Slow, quiet activities have become dull and even painful to bear because these activities don't flood their brains with a constant stream of dopamine like fast paced activities do, resulting in a natural loss of attention spans, which is why things like Tiktok have become so popular with them, it's short and quick stimulation. An empty room is terrifying to Generation Z because it's the absolute antithesis of everything they've become to depend on, as there isn't anything in an empty room to keep them engaged and constantly stimulated. It's like rehab to a drug addict.
bad luck to kill a sea bird
>faggot marvel and blumhouse fan nerds trying to bleed reddit blood out of a nice solid smooth rock that's nice to touch and look at with nothing to complain aboutCool thread, guys. Keep it up
>>221771770>non-euclidean?
>>221775652If the backrooms were truly randomly segmented, they would be non-euclidean.
I'm 32 and this is the first movie I've ever gone to the theaters alone to see a movie. Didn't even do that for Joker in 2019.Wanted to see it with my ex, but she didn't reply to my text.I would've seen it with my new girl, but she refuses to see horror movies.So I was running out of time and finally went to see it myself.Painting the guy being betabux for his wife to go back to school, as the bad guy, is really gay, but other than that it was a solid movie.I kinda want a sequel, but that would probably ruin it.Also wish they had kept the stick man from the original lore (I don't really give a fuck about the lore or YouTube videos and thought they ruined the original concept).8/10 overall.
>>221775525you can see this in the "extended" versions of the backrooms fan wikis and shit the very first thing they did was add things like food items that function like a video game, "random loot", FRIENDLY entities, and even entire "levels" that are basically just places where people can live comfortably and hang out>errmmm here's my OC backrooms level it's Level 17 and it's a big hotel that's always got lots of food and the entities are room service people so it's actually pretty chill to stay on this level....BUT IT'S STILL SCARY!
>>221771182the rooms are scary exactly because they are not empty
>>221775726>Painting the guy being betabux for his wife to go back to school, as the bad guy, is really gayso it just went completely over your head that Clark was clearly lying and telling a biased side of events to his therapist? The copy-woman that represented his wife fled in terror the moment the Pirate was coming.Clark very obviously had deep anger issues and beat the shit out of his wife regularly. The climax of the movie is him realizing that he's just wired wrong, but he's OK with that, and doesn't want to change. He says he belongs in the Backrooms. This is calling back to when he originally asked his therapist "do you think some people just deserve to be alone?">they painted him as the bad guy!He was a bad guyHe knew he was a bad guy
>>221775726i'm the opposite, ever since hearing about Kane doing this movie it felt like kind of a sellout move and basically like he would inevitably dump the years of already established pseudo-lore from the youtube videos
>>221775758>The copy-woman that represented his wife fled in terror the moment the Pirate was coming.le badwrongman beats his le good beautiful wife trope....so heckin original!
>>221775525The horror of the original backrooms concept is that it's nothing, forever. It's the Buddhist Nirvana. If you're white, it's terrifying because it is the end of constant action, which is life. If you're brown or yellow, it's comforting, because the constant action of life causes you suffering. If you're black or red, you don't know what it is.
>>221775726>I kinda want a sequel, but that would probably ruin it.100% there will be a sequel, the movie did better than Star Wars Obviously for a sequel you do the Alien > Aliens formula where in the 2nd one it's a whole team of ASYNC guys exploring as a team, now that we've established the setting
>>221775814If you were kane parsons you'd make your millions of dollars tooDon't even act like you'd try to be some artisticly pure guy and say "no, this basic bitch horror movie based on a creepypasta is too sacred...I will NOT be making millions of dollars off of it!"please
>>221775814Same thing I felt. Success is cool and all but he's completely botched the whole series and movie, as even his YT series started having serious cracks because he kept changing his mind and retconning shit, releasing small boring bites of plot in each video or over explaining things.I don't think he understands mystery. The reason so much shit is scary or intriguing is because of the mystery, and things become boring when everything gets explained.
>>221775758were the midget and the fat guy his gay butt buddies that he was having sex with on the sly?
>>221775976no they were just randoshe says it himself during the dinner scene, that somewhere in the real world there must be dudes who look like that and for whatever reason the backrooms "remembered" them and so they're just there
What if you were trapped in a place... except you weren't actually trapped and could just leave at any time?
>>221775560
>>221772010>retard suddenly goes deaf>"Complete silence? Now I'm going to shit my pants. Holy shit">walks into traffic
There were sometimes random entrances into the backrooms. Thats how the bird got in. It's like you didn't even see found footage 2.
>>221773326>Bonus points if at the end the girl live interest somehow glitches back to the real world but then every so often she opens a door and it leads to the Backrooms, forcing her to have to close and reopen it to change it back. Like she's living in a corrupted save file or something.Kino
>>221770636But enough about Obsession.
>>221770636This and all the replies show what a contrarian board this jeet infested shithole is
>>221771083>repackaging the old and calling it new againTHATS ALL MEDIA EVER, ITS ALL BASED ON PRINCIPLES AND ASPECTS THAT WERE WELL DONE IN OTHER WORKSORIGINALITY OR THE LACK THERE OF DOES NOT DETERMINE QUALITY AND IF YOU MAKE ELEMENTS THEIR BROADEST INTERPRETATION POSSIBLE THAN NO SHIT THERE ARE SIMILARITIES YOU TWAT
just finishedGLAD they put in this areaalso just want to say being a drunken pirate is BASED
>>221770636but enough about your life
>>221775652Made up math B.S. that's become synonymous with spoopy
>height: 5'6How did this short king manage to get himself an asian baddie?
>>221777506chad jawline and /fit/plus that dude studies film or something. he's got SKILLS. girls only want boyfriends who have great skills
>"I am a fucking architect!"Imagine the plans that Clark had for Mary
>>221777638kek
>gets locked in her home by her mother>gets locked in the backrooms by Clark>gets locked in a cell by AsyncMary can't catch a break
I feel like there was not enough footage of people being lost, maybe thats on purpose to not things boring but the girl enters the backrooms, immediately kidnapped by the black guy, then she's running away from the pirate, and then immediately she is out and trapped by that company
>>221775726I went alone too. I snuck in the theater to see it after watching Obsession. Since I didn't have a ticket I had to sit in the front row.
>>221777681at least she admitted her issue, keeps trying to fix problems though she knows she can't fix them, ends up locked up in the process. guess after all she "likes it in there" just like Clark did
>>221777739tis the unfortunate side effect of boiling down free-form jootoob video kino of various and unregulated length into a clean cut big budget studio movie produced to be consoomed™ by the masses
>>221777768Kek
>>221775726Clark was beating his wife, no wonder you've got no game if you missed the obvious subtext
it's like haunted house movies, the characters only get in trouble because they are too curious and retarded for their own good
Funny how the discourse on Backrooms seems to steer itself in many directions while Obsession discourse is the same inane bullshit over and over again no matter what
Clark was kinda a bitch for sending Bobby down the chute instead of going himself. Should've cut the rope or start removing Bobby's belt.Also as soon as he showed them it and they believed him, they should've walked back and prepare. I would've gone to Home Depot and bought tape, knives, a sledge hammer, markers, more rope, etc.He had money troubles. I would have gone to the local news with Bobby and Sarah. Tried to make a profit out of it by bringing a reporter down there.
>>221777955It's fairly obvious that Clark has already lost it at that point and is using those two as bait. He knew the spot he was leading them to. He brought the rope, but didn't bring nearly enough and told him to keep going further. He wanted to check out what was moving around down there.
>>221770582Kane Parsons, 20 year old, was a retard who missed the whole point
>>221777955>>221778037yeah he was well in the process of losing it at least. just went back and watched that scene where he talks to Mary then goes straight over to pick up the couple. all he has set up at that point is the blue tape door same it's kind of implied it was either the same day or he'd been up all night or maybe up for days. may or may not have known it was HIM at that point
>>221770582Does he make an appearance in this movie?
>>221778133kekprobably why he moved on to making Longest View a while ago and why it's better
>>221778172*Oldest View
>>221777888have a checked you poor bastard
>>221778143it's a weird trilogy ngl...
so it's safe to say they're gonna make a movie of this too
>>221778205QRD on Front Room? kino or capeshit?>>221778214hopefully not, respect this pseudo-documentary bittersweet halcyon masterpiece and let it be at peace
>>221778192bless you>>221778143imagine what the backrooms would look like if they tried to copy this guy's mind
>>221770960i thought this was common sense but i guess /v/ is retarded. It still makes for a less than ideal premise. Being trapped would amplify the movie, instead it trivializes it. But i suppose thats the effect of le character study movie.
>>221778214>so it's safe to say they're gonna make a movie of this tooKane still hasn't followed up on the random ass picture of that Sumeria Ziggurat, hasn't he?
>>221771182that those rooms aren't empty
>>221770582The movie got ruined when they switched to the psychologist character that don't know how to act. This should've been all about Chiwetel Ejiofor exploring with his staff members.
>>221779130so it's about squatters?
>>221779335unironically best theme for a horror movie with boomers as target audience
>>221770960I thought they missed a sure bet by not having Clarke fall through another invisible portal in the floor at some point just to drive home that there are near infinite ways to die in there. Nobody ever said there can’t be portals in the floors and ceilings.
>>221779230Ironically she's probably one of the best actresses working today, genuinely an incredible actress. Backrooms is comfortably the worst movie she has ever been in. Stunt casting.Watch pic rel if you want to see what she can really do.
I don't think the concept of Backrooms was ever meant to be 'scary'. It was invented by late millennials early zoomers and was only ever meant to be a cool concept.The horror element only got picked up and iterated on.If Backrooms actually existed as a pocket dimension you could enter and leave at will people would love it, I think a good chunk of the world's population would settle in it and carve out chunks of it to serve as their home and homeless people and vagrants would occupy most of it.Of course the initial concept was about accidentally noclipping behind reality and being unable to leave. It's just the same concept that Richard Matheson wrote about in Little Girl Lost in 1953 that was later adapted for The Twilight Zone. But with a millennial spin that was meant to invoke nostalgia for those '70s and '80s malls and department stores that were being shuttered an lament for the post-'90s economic decline.
>>221779230I found her accent endearing. I don't think the film would've worked as well if they had hired an American woman for the female lead.
>>221779432She's so fucking hot.She's basically the real deal that people here meme Rebecca Ferguson and Dakota Johnson out to be.
>>221779432damn I saw this movie a couple of years back, how did I not recognize her in Backrooms.BTW I saw it with the original voice acting, do all Norwegians speak that softly or was it a stylistic choice?
>>221779481I'm an old fart in his 30s and I associate it with those dreams where you go through never ending labyrinths of usual stores and buildings that are somehow connected. Though mine usually have normal people around and the only weird thing is why they're connected and never seem to end. It also reminds me of AIslop creating something that looks familiar but still incredibly off. Backrooms is a place made by otherworldly entity which doesn't understand human lives and environment and poorly recreates it to lure people in, that malicious uncanny feel is what makes it disturbing. Honestly the whole zoomer shitposting is so boring and uninspired, come up with something more creative holy shit.
>>221771643how have you never been to a forest
>>221777463all math is made up
>>221779560>Backrooms is a place made by otherworldly entityman you had me until this wannabe lovecraft garbage, the less you explain the backrooms the better.you said it reminds you of your dreams, do you also try to rationalize your dreams while they happen?
>>221772010tough guy here has never heard of solitary confinement
if I post a video on YouTube of my own awesome idea for a movie, would it be stolen if they wanted to make it or would I be contacted?
>>221775525The backrooms are creepy because it is an infinite maze with no way out, where at any moment you can encounter some horrific abomination that kills you in a painful way. This is then juxtaposed with a very mundane looking environment that is familiar but also odd enough to cause unease. >>221775729Thats typical of every online community. The SCP foundation for instance is a cool concept with a few neat creatures and piles upon piles of trash.
>>221779958only if you get yourself a subreddit because hollywood is searching for writers from reddit
>>221770582not seen this movie but isn't this just a remake of a twilight zone episode they did where the guy/little girl goes through the wall and gets trapped?
>>221780084not really, the only similarity is the guy's daughter goes through an invisible door and is trapped in the wall backrooms is more about the actual place you get trapped intwilight zone didn't invent the idea of falling into another world
>>221776710D-did you just insult obsession???
>>221780130ok i havent seen the film. but remember the creepypasta. >twilight zone didn't invent the idea of falling into another worldi sometimes feel the twilight zone invented everything kek
>>221780152you'd be surprised by how many stories and ideas that feel modern have actually existed for a long time in some form in ancient mythology. But when it comes to falling into another wolrd the oldest tale that I can come up with is Dante getting lost in the woods and ending up in hell, maybe there are also celtic legends about blokes ending up in the fae realm
>>221780257yeah i know lots are retellings of stuff from ancient mythology, i meant visually there are lots of modern and less modern media (tv/film) that directly shot for shot just take from the twilight zone. for tv it really paved the path for modern tv not for the themes or stories themselves but the way they are presented
>>221779560I'm nearing 40 and I see the aesthetic (not the concept which is clearly based on weird tales and science fiction pulps) clearly as an amalgamation of early digital space (video games, internet and internet culture, some children's tv shows), nostalgia for now abandoned '70s, '80s, '90s midwestern Americana aesthetic when the designs were more ambitious, embellished, and a little gaudy, and the liminal space feeling you get when you were a child on holiday staying at a hotel and wandering the halls with entire floors seemingly empty or at holiday inn motels or makeshift airport lounges when you were waiting for a layover in the '90s.Backrooms' aesthetic is fully rooted in the millennial generation.Early digital space:To be clear this refers specifically to the first 3D-rendered spaces that came in the early '90s to early '00s, not the older text or 2D adventure games.Games like MystOld digital 3D wallpapersWindows '95 3D Maze Screensaver:>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oRL5durPleIEarly fps maps with no players in them (fy_pool_day by Squall from 2001 and NIPPER ones come to mind, later Portal but there were earlier pre-CS and pre-NPC ones, maybe Quake custom maps)Early internet c.~1994Children's tv shows:Are You Afraid of the Dark S01E13 The Tale of the Pinball Wizard, S04E09 The Tale of the Ghastly GrinnerThis movie is basically a feature length AYAOTD episodeAnd liminal architecture you can find all over.>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iLJNSD3H5sgNot just from the past but new stuff too like:Holiday Inn Express London Heathrow T4 courtyardLantern of Chagrin Valley, Ohio:>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b_793ymDDI0
>>221780282oh my bad, yeah Twilight Zone has been a deeply influential show for all modern horror cinema
>>221780130>twilight zone didn't invent the idea of falling into another worldYeah, undertale did that.
The "real world"/"outside" shots were deliberately backrooms-like, right?Every scene looked off a bit, and I was wondering if it were due to low budget, or deliberate.
>>221779958The whole idea of the backrooms originates from >>>/x/, and there were no mentions of it in the post credits.Sorry chud, your idea will be stolen, and you will be happy.
>>221780442>so are you a pirate, or a sultan, or what?
>>221780351>Backrooms' aesthetic is fully rooted in the millennial generation.To be clear when I say this I don't mean the aesthetic alone, millennials didn't design those aesthetics which originates from the '40s post-Great Depression and post-WWII boom.I mean the viewing of that aesthetic as a little sad, a little spooky, and a little lonely since they saw and lived in those environments through a child eyes/mind.
>>221771182zoomzooms are scared of having to be in reality without something upping their dopamine every three secs. Hence walking through an empty area, which would be relaxing to any generation before the internet, is le heckin' scaryThe monsters are just extra cause they've been brainwashed to think extended faces are scarytldr zoomers are dumb
>>221780483i'm a sultan.. of SWINGDIDIDIDIDIDIIDID IDIDIDIDIDUUUUU
>>221779432>>221779230I didnt realize it was her and i noticed her American accent felt off, with a north eastern euro twang and then i checked the credits. I dont know why the writer felt the main chars needed to be adults doing adult things. Should have been about a ragtag group of teenagers who explore the backrooms and start dying. What the fuck were they thinking with this boring psychology shit
>>221780351>>221779560>>221779481Its literally just a single post on 4chan /x/, thats what the backrooms is. Becuase its internet folklore it can turn into anything
>>221781861Yea but the first 'lore' addendum to backrooms is literally about noclipping, a Doom/Quake/CS command for phasing through walls.It's video game coded with Gen X and Millennialisms.
>>221782037to add to that, when you noclip in a video game out of bounds into background building models the interiors are weird and lifeless like the backrooms.
AWWWWW HELL NAWWWWW DEM ROOOMS LAWWWWDY LAWWWD
>>221772153Or leave the backrooms
Why do people act like being afraid of backrooms is a zoomer thing when boomers were terrified of a hotel?
>>221778143yeah he's the wheelchair&lamp guy
>>221776710the latams and jeets are about to tear you to shreds bro
>>221782673>when boomers were terrified of a hotel?We were afraid of nigger cooks, not hotels.
>>221780442>>221780483I felt so bad for his businessnot a single customer all movie
I just want an SCP kino directed by rel-people:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xVx2jyDPinw
>>221783615but think of the savingshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hbpUcjUxKP8
>>221783876kinoid buy his ottomans
>>221777955I would've got a gun. Pop a cap in any entities ass
>backrooms>its front and centerI dont get it.
>>221783918and weapons actually do work so there's no reason not to just solo the whole backrooms with a well armed squad
>>221780664Check out Guitar George. He knows all the chords.
>>221783942the backrooms will simply create more puppets though
>>221783975right but you'd still want to carry a weapon so you can defend yourself while you're in there
Scp for zoomers.
>>221783989>you pass by the copy machine which immediately starts printing out excel spreadsheets. >this startles you>you turn around and get jump scared by crimblo bimbo>he is a giant furry animal that is like the stuffed animal you had as a kid, but with razor sharp teeth>this will be very marketable to children.
>>221770582>>221770636Imagine getting your OC Donut Steel creepypasta from /x/ getting a Hollywood movie. This is the whole reason of the Backrooms. Zoomers made it happen, basedlennials couldn't.
>>221771689that didn't happen tho
>>221784046There was a slender man movie too dum dum.
>>221783989SCP is SCP for zoomers
>>221779505Ferguson is a fantastic (and very beautiful, of course) actress herself who needs a better agent.Johnson.... fuck no.
>>221770636This
did the monster living in the stinky clothing room turn into the pirate? the way it's described it sounds like a new thing but in that case where'd the other thing go?
>>221785147that was still the pirate
>>221784046All things considered, this turned out pretty goodI hope we get more movies like this now, it was obviously a box office success, and not just generic slop
>>221777862Once again, the "betabux bad" narrative.Another reason I will never provide for a woman. They hate you for doing it.
>>221775726>new girl>ask my ex to go see a movie with mewtf is wrong with you? is this an unc thing? i'm a young buck of 27 and if you do this your gf will assume you're a cheating hung up retard
>>221776710Based. FUCK Obsession, I'll NEVER see that shit flick. Backrooms is dope though.
>>221783043you made a mistake in the word cock
just watch both backrooms and obsession they're both decent flicks, what else are u gonna watch niggas? there's nothing to watch these days movies wise
>>221773326>everything is now videogame inspiredlame
>>221774359wow so deep saar
I thought it got corny and plummeted at the end, the moment he choke holds her the movie crashed down into lame territory.I think I would've liked it better if she actually just rescued him and they both got out.Instead I got a really unsatisfying gay ending that wasn't a twist to me whatsoever, I dunno what it was trying to do, it was redundant, they already made the point with his pirate avatar and they already revealed the ending with the found footage in the beginning... Wut...
What I thought the movie was about turned out to be scarier than what it was actually about.
>>221785462I didn't tell her I was doing it. Also the new girl hasn't asked me to be her gf or be exclusive and never refers to me as her boyfriend, she doesn't even call me "baby" or "sweetheart" she still calls me by my first name, the only time she calls me "baby" is during sex. My ex wasn't even attracted to me and got the ick because I was unemployed for a couple months so I could study and go back to college, despite having plenty of money she still got the ick, and didn't even reply when I texted her. Don't even know if my current gf is fucking other guys, because we never agreed to be bf/gf or whatever. It's a "situationship" as zoomers call it, and I don't want to commit to her because I lied to her about being a racist chud when she asked about my politics, so itll never work longterm.
>>221776710Both movies are allowed to be overrated shit, anon.
>>221785776what did you think it was about
>>221785818fair enough I guessone of the reasons why I'm incel, i'm european and neetbucks maxxing for months now while pretending to look for work, its true women don't really like that
>>221785844I thought the monster was a spider that weaved a web out of reality itself so the whole place was a trap you fall into to get eaten.
>>221777506I didn't realize this took place in 1990 but you don't see any smartphones in the movie. kino.
>>221777506asians crave BWC by default you have to be deformed to not get an asian baddie as a wasp
>>221785856She dumped me cause her 4/10 friend was dating a guy with an apartment on main street and she was sleeping there while the two of them were on vacation.Probably wondered why her friend's bf was doing a better job taking care of her than her actual bf KEKShe made more money than me when I was working though so the relationship was always doomed
>>221775846>Backrooms but with highly trained OperatorsFund it.
>>221782037Pulling up to the backrooms with the Graviton Beam Emitter
>>221777506>how did that 6/10 male score this 4/10 female
>>221777506it was the 90s, height wasn't an obsession like it is now amongst women back then
>>221772054>misunderstand rotten tomatoes ratingswhat?
>>221777681every time the camera panned down to show her feet in those loafers or whatever my dick twitched she has nice feet. interesting also that norwegians usually have brown eyes and hair from what i normally see. their most scandi trait is their height
i think the backrooms are comfy but i don't like the need to add a monster, just have the idea that something else is in there with you
>>221774058>film includes lore written by retards on scp>"WHY DOESNT IT MAKE SENSE!?!?!"it's a mess of a film with a thousand plotholes.
I have just watched the movieIt was.. forgettable. When you have already been familiar with the concept of backrooms, the movie adds nothing new, and doesn't take 'ownership' of the universe so to sayunless they're gonna make sequels, with more 'explanations' but this might ruin it too, this can be compared to The Cubeso the movie is just one of the many depictions of the backrooms, in this one they make it so the backrooms are connected to people's memories, but it's not really explored too much imho
>>221787032thisI'm way uglier than him and I have an asian gf as hot as that.
>>221770999The big guy was Dark Bernard, the evil manifestation of Bernard's hatred of his wife. Did you even watch the film?
>>221770582Do normies know this comes from the evil nazi website known as 4Chan? And specifically the /x/ board full of antisemitic conspiracy therorists?
>>221771830This movie is for zommers yet you don't have the attention span to watch it, curious
>>221770582It was a bad movie
>>221770582That immediately ruined the whole concept. I can't believe director zoom would go that route after spending years making backrooms videos where the people are explicitly stranded there.>>221770636True sadly
>>221789902at least he killed good and dead so now it can rest.... hopefully. course the nuhollyjoos will obviously want a sequel. he was pretty obviously done with it for the past couple years so this was a fitting postscript i guess.
>>221783986What weapons are you carrying?
Why didn't the black guy just adopt a cool gimmick to sell more furniture?
>>221771863>>221770745I think, the "real world" was the first layer of backrooms and there is a real real world.Look at the sky in every outdoor shot. Look at the streets, all too perfect. Look at the people and how they behave.Look how few of them are there.
>>221788179He did not.>>221771182This was the horror of Lovecraft netherworldly architectures. It's old a.f.
>>221770582They should have leaned more into the discount SCP version, this was pretentious
>>221773047You guys are so midwits, it's astonishing.
Why did he not just simply gather up and sell the furniture found in the backrooms at discount prices to put his competitors out of business? It’s literally free inventory
>>221770999that guy is Clark's pyramid head
It was not badThey should make more movies with stolen ideas from internetThe subreddit /nosleep is extremely underrated
>>221780442Yes, thank you.Imo it was the first layer, we never saw reality.
>>221771338I've been looking for this pic for a while now. Thanks for posting it, anon!
>>221776812nothing new under the sun, that's in the bible.
>>221790573people were saying the real world portions of the movie were boring but they're shot in a genuinely odd, dreamlike way which made me wonder how much of those segments were real
>>221776783>anyone who disagrees with me is a jeet or a botgonna have a tough life, kid
>>221777506why was she the only one with a realistic reaction to the backrooms? maybe it has to do with baggage or something.
>>221789607>Do normies know this comes from the evil nazi website known as 4Chan? And specifically the /x/ board full of antisemitic conspiracy therorists?kek, thisI loved when I mentioned this movie and my friends said "is that the one that comes from Reddit?"Fucking faggots honestly. I'm glad they don't know and paid for the movie unknowing that it was originally seeded by LE EBIL 4CHANZ
>>221779691haha no, all the basic stuff is uncreated, that's why it keeps getting discovered.
>>221771182>>221771338>>221773792>>221775525>>221780642Have you retards not heard of the concept of uncanny valley?>>221786502There's a good Youtube video I found a while back that's based around this very subject. Found it far more entertaining than the Backrooms movie ngl.
Just finished watching. 3/5 at best. Not sure what all the hype was about.
>>221790668V/H/S: SCP soon
>>221770582why does kane parson follow opensource ai if he's against using it?
>>221770636fpbpbut i will give them that alot of the shots are very well done. story completely fails apart at the end. obsession was better than this
>>221775652>see house that's 20ft x 20ft>go inside>it's 50ft x 50ft on the insidethats all it means, mathenese for "nonsense"
>>221785925but it is a trap that Black Man fell into and he got eaten
>>221779727The otherwordly part is accurate. No, backrooms are too surreal to understand while you're in them. You're just accepting that it's real the same as your mind does when it's in a suggestible state like sleep.
>>221789607there's a clip of Kane in an interview where he was shown the screencap of the original 4chan post and he mumbled "which I'm not on btw" and at first it was cringe but then I remembered this site actually sucks cock and it's embarrassing to be on here so it's understandable
>>221771689Dude the downies in this board will believe this and parrot it all week.
>>221771182>What makes zoomers so terrified of big empty rooms?they grew up extremely socially isolated and they think minecraft is a horror game... I was playing doom 2 and quake when I was a baby...
>>221771338>>221771182>>221796954big empty spaces are right wing extremism
In the lore it’s supposed to be some type of parasite thing of bacteria. Kinda hard to leave when clipped out of reality
>>221785586that's just it though, it's not deepit's very surface level and easily explainedyou should feel retarded if you didn't immediately understand it
>>221770582He did pay for the house, U know.
>>221798786this N--ice gentleman of African-American origin WORKS and PAYS for what he has
The third act of this movie really falls apart. Bobby and Kat die way too quick and the therapist is not nearly likeable enough to take over the role of the rootable protag. The dinner scene is extremely out of place with the kind of horror that the backrooms is, like the head in the fridge c'mon man what the fuck is that blumhouse-ass shit. It's not bad for a debut film but I think this movie could have easily been a 9/10 if they had just done a few more drafts of the screenplay.
>>221800632>The dinner scene is extremely out of place with the kind of horror that the backrooms is, like the head in the fridge c'mon man what the fuck is that blumhouse-ass shit.Agree with the rest of your post but most of all this. That was where the movie honestly lost me. I would have much preferred the monster was The Bacteria or the trumpet-head motherfuckers or something like that. Or better yet you never actually see it at all, just in the shadows.
Somewhere there was a guy in a wheelchair with 4 legs and a lamp?
>>221800973must have been a disabled midget carnie looking for lighting for his circus tent
I thought it was quite good especially for the these days uncommon virtue of nothing in the movie outstaying its welcome.Everything movies at a decent pace and there's a really good sense of flow from one idea and concept to another.A typical modern day movie for instance would spend 80% of the running time on the therapy sessions with the backrooms just being explored minimally or there would be some obnoxious characters blathering on about some shit unrelated to the main plot.In this movie the focus is on the backrooms and everything else is kept to a bare minimum to drive the plot forward.Probably the tightest and leanest script I've seen in a long while.
Where does Freddy fazbear fit into this?
>>221771338>plebbit>agender>so averse to nature and peace that it makes them weapKill that thing.
Why did the pirate keep saying Shalom?
>>221770960
>>221770636Preachy as fuck too
>>221780442That early polygonlike mountain is trippy
>>221779481>The horror element only got picked up and iterated on.The horror element was tacked on when video game developers wanted to adapt the concept of The Backrooms into video games, but thought a walking simulator was too boring of gameplay, so they added some random Slender-tier crap to make it spookier. And then retards tried to insist liminal spaces themselves are supposed to be a phobia. Not really. It was always just supposed to be paranormal fantasy, maybe tragedy if you are trapped forever.>>221780351>Are You Afraid of the Dark S01E13 The Tale of the Pinball Wizard, S04E09Underrated kino taste, I'm glad I'm not the only one that appreciated that episode and the 90s mall after hours vibes.
>>221795602Which vid nigga?
>>221786502https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bICJsHUCVOUdone with GTA mods btw
It was a simple movie for the general audience. I liked it. Im sure the sequel will be crazier.
>>221782550Sounds like something a clueless person that never played video games would say.
>>2217784193 characters did get trapped though. Only Clarke lived long enough to comprehend the part he was in. Yes they could've backed out at a certain point but 3 of them very quickly wound up lost. Clark himself almost got lost. I dont really think its that big of an issue. You run from something or get taken just a few rooms away from where you remember and you can be hopelessly lost. Mary didnt even find the exit.
>>221770582shit forced "psychological" plotline with empty characters.Should've been an Async exploration plotline, like in the youtube videos but I guess A24 doesn't have the balls to do things the experimental way with fewer dialogue.They had to hire a nepo-baby mid writter to cram in some cookie cutter verbose in there.
>>221790070Two Deaglers
>>221771182It's not supposed to be the big room that's scary. It's the fact that the big room could be hiding a scary monster and you don't know how to get out of the big room.
>>221770582>wtf is the point of the backrooms if you can just... leave?The idea of returning back... to the rooms
It feels like the script was ran through a committee to make sure it gets enough of those "elevated horror' points as possible. Did you know the monster is the man character's ego and wow, it ends up eating him! Do you get it? The woman had a crazy controlling mom but then she asserts herself and beats the monster to death with a rock! Do you get it?And this is coupled with the most boring setting whose unique feature is that it's MEANT to be boring and basically only got popular when zoomies started making up Lore™ about how you could meet Fraddy Fazbear or John Pork or Tung Tung Tunak Tun in there.Hope you didn't shit yourself watching the Netflix Napoleon chase the woman through random rooms!
>>221775729>My level is number 69>It's a 5 stars hotel on a paradise tropical island>The entities are 10/10 women who can take any form you want and who will do whatever you want>they will even resist if you want, for rape-play, their joys is to serve>Also they're all gourmet that can make food spawn out of nowhere but it's alway healthy>And the air is filled with a magic that make you achieve your perfect body without even doing sport>And they have ac, homecinema, gamings pc in every bed room
>>221770582That retarded zoomer invalidated the whole premise of the original concept
I didn't finish this shit. So instead of calling the police or fucking Ghostbusters the black dude hires some potheads to film this shit and then he literally lowers the guy into a trap and then they pull him up, the somehow forget to untie him and then somehow they're both pulled in there. Wtf is this shit. Like why? They should've at least been a little bit realistic about it.
>>221805095Why the fuck would you call the police lol. You find this awesome thing thats never been discovered before and you want to immediately ruin it by involving the government?