Backrooms

Characters trapped inside transitional lives and spaces that remembers that specific version but never the correct one. Backrooms as a film is very interesting, i would argue to people who say this concept doesn't work as a film that it does. In fact i would say liminal spaces are the single best piece of horror you could use in film as a medium. Film is something that obviously requires space but what happens when that space is stretched and shaped into something beyond reality?

Childhood trauma and divorce are probably the two best beginner choices for this world and idea because they're both entirely transitional but ones that are difficult to process and get out off. I've seen no one really talk about this despite how obvious it is but the backrooms itself is so clearly an extension to both clark and Mary. Even the scientists are an extension really, we all are stuck in liminal spaces most of the time and the backrooms captures that very concept.

Kane parson still obviously needs to build his craft but this is still very impressive. To draw comparisons, curry baker's obsession was something I liked but its so obviously stuck in shitty lighting and cinematography that adheres to the modern convention of elevates horror. Cinematography that is stuck in the middle, the central and obviously, the backrooms has central shots but its far more interesting its lighting and cinematography. Sure, Kane had a bigger budget but with a smaller budget, shouldn't you come up with unique ways to make your film?

Obviously this film is gonna be divisive overall but generally, I think this film has a lot more to talk about and to offer then something like obsession.

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