Pookiedookie

anyone who thinks can eat a spoonful of cinnamon ~20~

[shouts-into-the-void]

It doesn't matter whether Nikki liked Bear back, actually. That's the entire point of the movie, that it doesn't matter—Bear never cared about how Nikki felt, just about the fact that he wanted her.

[rawrxd061]

[lasagnaforem]

The amount of detail that went into Backrooms(2026) is so phenomenal.

Kane Pixels has been making found footage style films for half a decade and has been slowly improving his scare techniques and everything he learned transfers very well into the movie!

Instead of using a lot of jumpscares, the film embraces what it is: horror in the empty spaces. The buzz of the lights and the dark corners in your vision. There are a lot of cool tricks used in the film to terrify the audience without killing their tension (like revealing a monster through a jumpscares would)

Overall, the spooks are very rewarding and it's clear a lot of thought went into this movie

[ultrawhalnar]

Anyway i love how the movie uses this very abstract out-there horror premise to represent the human tendency to get stuck on something and obsess over it and become trapped in a never-ending cycle and to resist change so hard that you still change anyway but in a way that degrades and warps and destroys you and the fallibility of human memory and how every time you recall something it gets a little less accurate which means the more you obsess over something the further entrenched in it you become the more you choose to live here the worse it gets the less you understand it until your perspective on the objective reality of it is completely destroyed. The backrooms are a brain the whole thing is a brain. The horror is the human brain. CAN ANYBODY HEAR MEEEEE

[thingsarentgood]

Everyone in Mary's life was trying to keep her stagnant and obeying. Her mother wouldn't let her leave the house by her own strict rules, Clark wouldn't let her leave the kitchen until she said what he wanted her to, the async scientists wouldn't let her go because of the information she could provide. Her whole life was basically just being stuck in the backrooms of everyone else's creation.

[stormbreath]

I really did like the ending of the Backrooms 2026, actually. The twist that the Backrooms is a space that you can physically exit but a part of you mentally will always be trapped in is a great subversion and really effectively inverts the concept. The main scientist character looks directly into the camera and reveals he is still caught in the same nostalgia trap that Clark was, stuck in a repetitive motion and going nowhere. Mary got out but she's still in there. You can leave but you can never escape

[starvariety]

i really love the motif of windows in Backrooms. mary’s book being called “the window within”. the curtains in her office always being drawn. the shot of her behind glass in her own home during the gathering at her house. clark looking through the window into his own house. him being unable to see kat through the glass she can see him through. the window in mary’s mother’s house. the windows in the hospital her mother is brought to that only look out to another building. the drawing that mary finds of captain clark reaching someone up towards a window. the fale window in clark’s “home” in the backrooms that just looks out to more of the same empty space. the window in the interrogation room that’s too high to see out of (and thus to determine if it’s real). the fact that the backrooms lacks any windows to a true “outside space”, and how terrifying that makes it. there is no window within. or, at least, not one that any of them can find

[brightside-brigade]

"I like it in here"

Okay. But its going to consume you.

"We don't have to change"

Okay. But it's going to consume you.

Eventually you have to leave. Eventually you have to run. And its painful and it's so much harder than staying in the comfort of what you know. In that house that stopped being a home years ago. Living memories you've replayed so many times over and over that the details are warping and becoming hollowed out corpses.

And it will consume you when you least expect it. You'll rot right there along with the building foundations and distort right along with your memories.

You'll have to run eventually, even if that's not how you're wired.

The window was never locked.

[thingsarentgood]

Clark saying the creatures don't feel anything and then later in the same scene the woman anomaly is seen attempting to run away from the pirate, seemingly in fear. Something something devaluation of life seen as different than him.

[unowneyenon]

I come home from backrooms. I open the backrooms tag. It is 20 pictures of the same white guy who was onscreen for ten minutes or less. I cannot find any of the main characters. I close the backrooms tag.

[shizukateal]

like, seriously? the stoner guy???? like, ok. Remmick thirst always carries an implication of racism, because every person of color in sinners is 10x hotter than him, so if he's your pick then that inevitably raises some eyebrows. But at the very least you can craft a pretext, however flimsy, about the eroticism of vampires, and some vague homerotic subtext with sammie, and the tragic hypocresy of his backstory yadda yadda. This? This is a new low on the "you people would fuck a fence if it was white" circle of hell.

[lasagnaforem]

Backrooms (2026) - Kane Parsons, A24

[the-babble-fish]

backrooms movie but its just clark going through and unplugging shit to save on his electricity bill

[miosinee]

mary kline backrooms my beloved

[nessa007]

do y’all understand just how insane this is???? 🤯

via filmdreams

[scottishaccentsareawesome]

AND THAT’S JAMES A. JANISSE FROM”DEAD MEAT” IN THE MIDDLE!

I looooove the Dead Meat YouTube channel. James loves horror, so that’s probably a highlight of his year right there….😁

[ofmermaidstories]

i love x reader. 🥹 i think it’s so fun and creative. it’s not a perfect genre by any means, but even with its faults i think the pleasure of ending up on adventure after adventure after adventure with your favourite characters as you, the reader, are continuously reinvented and reimagined over and over again, is worth celebrating and protecting—and most importantly, creating for. 💅🏽📚✨

[yumenosakiacademy]

"Wisdom or power... I rather think I'd like to keep both. As long as I pay the right price... Creating that loophole shouldn't be too hard, right?"

[saucefunk]

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