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I feel I differ from the general consensus on the Backrooms movie. I didn't like it. It was beautifully shot and captured the essence of the rooms with the set so well, but I left feeling like that's the only thing it did well. The plot felt very disjointed to me, like two different movies stitched together in the middle. I think the theme it was trying to communicate was a great one to explore with the Backrooms, it ultimately fell flat for me because of how it almost felt like the movie was just jumping around. I also didn't find it scary or uncomfortable like I hear a lot of people saying. The horror is heavily dependent on the eerie vibes of the Backrooms which I'm sure worked very well for others, but it just didn't land with me. Otherwise I'd say there's one or two tense sequences that I didn't find very frightening either. If anything, I found myself bored.

Overall, the plot and characters didn't really "click" with me for a lack of a better way to phrase it and I left the theatre disappointed. The pacing was interesting at certain moments too, though fine when considering the whole thing.

While I personally didn't enjoy this, I can somewhat understand how someone else could. It is incredibly faithful and effective in its visuals, even if other elements didn't work for me. If you're interested in watching this film, I'd encourage you to watch it, but I wouldn't recommend it to anyone without interest in it beforehand. For a director so young, however, it is a great start and I'd be interested in seeing his future work.

1.5/5. Okay movie, not for me.

Well-written, thanks. Should be interesting to see what happens with the director after this.

i just saw the backrooms today and was kind underwhelmed. The set/atmosphere/aesthetics of it were definitely fantastic but i actually found it to be kind of an average-to-fine shaky-cam style horror in a beautifully captured space. It very lightly touched on some ideas i thought were really interesting but didn't carry them through. But the backrooms is the kind of thing that everyone is going to look at differently so there was no way of pleasing everyone. Some the backrooms tropes it leaned on are some of the ones i find least compelling, so I just wasn't the audience. Arguably their success in portraying the rooms themselves is going to be one of the biggest points of appeal, and they achieved that to be sure.

Thank you

hii!! i watched backrooms yesterday and it was really REALLY good!! a fantastic quiet horror!!

most of my concerns about the tropes of interpreting the backrooms were addressed and handled PERFECTLY. there are some interpretations that bore/annoy me and this hit the exact core of what the backrooms Should be and Is

the sound design and music was incredible, it was so well put together, i love it so much and it genuinely shook me it’s one of the scariest movies ive ever watched

Thanks!