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Genuine question: what’s the verdict on the movie? I am very tempted to go watch Obsession for a second time, but am also wondering about checking this one out. Is it better or worse or equally good as Obsession?
I liked backrooms way more than obsession, it has some interesting themes, suspense and some unpredictability. For me obsession was just another default American horror movie where the characters make stupid decisions, but I guess they are both OK considering their budgets
Oh, I couldn’t disagree more on your interpretation on obsession. Bear is not stupid and he doesn’t make his decisions out of stupidity. Everything that happens after the dinner scene, he knows exactly what’s going on and he doesn’t care. That is why it becomes so scary on so many levels.
I’m still curious about Backrooms and it is totally fair to not like Obsession as much as Backrooms, but the way you talk about it, it seems like you wither missed the point of Obsession or you didn’t pay attention to the story.
Haven’t watched Obsession, but I loved the Backrooms. I’ve never seen my fiancé more horrified by a movie, and a friend that was with us had to step away for a bit.
Fair warning though, the protagonist does get verbally agressive/abusive/physically abusive.
There was also a lot more gore than I was expecting, because Kane typically keeps it light.
Easily one of my favorite movies this year.
Obsession is literally lightyears better than backrooms
I saw obsession twice within a 24hr span, i saw backrooms and thought it was so ass
Check out this incel, so obsessed with Nikki he had to see here twice in the same day.
no, no, no, nO, NO, NO, NO, NO
its good
I’ve seen both, obsession and backrooms are incomparable. Obsession is a masterpiece of horror which really fucked me up. Backrooms is a fairly fun piece especially if you like the overall backrooms concept, nothing spectaculsr but if you have spare time it’s worth a watch.
Didn’t watch obsession but backrooms is fun. Has a low-budget horror movie vibe which isnt really a bad thing. The horror itself isn’t especially scary, but quite unsettling. The ending I thought was quite weak, it really obviously tries to set itself up for a sequel in quite an off-putting way
Thank you. If I understood wendigoon correctly, the movie is basically the prequel to the entire YouTube series, which I thought was pretty neat, but sucks that he didn’t stick the landing. Bit of a bummer.
I think Kane is super good at making spaces feel threatening. I still remember that one he made about the giant on wheels, that chases a guy through a mall and it’s borderline ridiculous how such a silly concept can be this scary, haha.
I look forward to checking it out.
Highly recommend Obsession as well, my friend. That film is terrifying and the ending is horrific in the best way possible.
He’s just worried about the power bill. It costs a lot to heat and light an infinite number of rooms.
Surely several of those infinite rooms contain large nuclear power plants providing at least some of the infinite power required …
in the lore, the source is unknown but we know that the lights and power grid are designed for indefinite use, in lighting and tile survey
and if theres the null zones, the sun, etc
also a major fire hazard
Seriously. What happens if you set fire to the backrooms? Or are they just entirely made of material incapable of propagating fire?
Open for business as a hotel and make infinite revenue.
With infinite lawsuits
Oh I’ve heard this one. What if it’s already full of infinite people and infinitely more arrive?
It’s fine unless they have weird names
there are yellow suits, I can get lost, there is something else
and null zones connect to different parts of the world, and the DoE and Async are already on it
Barbarian had a joke with landlord getting excited about such “additional square footage”.
I whispered to my friends that Justin Long would have been ecstatic
Honestly, perfect place for datacentres. Unlimited water in the pool area, electric sockets are likely live, unlimited space, no noise pollution, just have to put a data cable though the threshold.
I’m pretty sure the backrooms if they were real, they wouldn’t be a horror thing, it would be full of people mapping it and living there. there would be a small organised millitia to neutralize dangerous stilllives. Plenty of hydroponic agriculture.
It would be interesting to see cities in the backrooms, where being there is just a normal thing… Nevermind, it already exists, it’s called the Toronto Path
i think the randomly appearing and disapearing chairs and stuff might mean a datacenter would need a lot of maintenance
We can study it and use it? what if we get multiple server racks and clip them all into each other, triple the compute power on the same space, although cooling would be the limiting factor.
there would be a small organised millitia to neutralize dangerous stilllives
Yes, but the still lifes aren’t the only danger. There is still the time warps, instability of walls and flooring with the null zones, the bacteria.
And IMO contact with the backrooms clearly a induces a form of paranoid schizophrenia, as seen by some of Kane’s work.
So it would be an inevitable disaster to use the backrooms for any useful purposes.
I’m obviously only going be the movie lore, I have not consumed the entire backroom corpus
Fair enough, it’s quite a bit of content to watch through
thats Async’s vision ASpace
Well, there was something similar: Kowloon Walled City
A truly fascinating place.
I guess the backrooms would be quite similar.
i heard that when it was shut down. despite how inhospitable it looked, many didn’t want to leave. they liked living in such a tight community. It didn’t seem dystopian to them.
Didn’t watch the movie, huh?
Fuckin landlords when they watch backrooms
Including the magic door annex, rent now comes to $∞.99 per month. Plus tax.
Sounds like a great place to start your own storage facility.
So is Backrooms an adaptation of House of Leaves?
Cause the premise seems very similar, and I’m wondering whether I should bother watching it/recommend HoL to people who liked it.
Backrooms (the movie) is based on the backrooms(a collection of of internet fiction written by a lot of people in a shared setting with a shared premise), which was inspired by a lot of things because the concepts behind it were built up by a lot of people. House of Leaves probably had an influence because it’s decently well known but there is no direct relation. I’m sure if you dug through some forums, boards and subreddits you could find someone talking about a direct inspiration for a piece or two, but it’s not really a formalized set of works
