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farmlesbians

it’s talking heads kermit friday

teo

Please don't go somewhere where I cant follow

Eileen Myles, “Peanut Butter.” I Must Be Living Twice: New and Selected Poems 1975 - 2014

My Love, Don't Cross That River (2013) dir. Jin Mo-young

Han Kang, “White Hair.” The White Book (translated by Deborah Smith)

Marguerite Duras, The Lover (translated by Barbara Bray)

#webweaving

girltomripley

I'LL BE HOME SOON ; Backrooms x The Haunting of Hill House

Backrooms (2026) dir. Kane Parsons ; Shirley Jackson: A Rather Haunted Life ; The Shining (1980) dir. Stanley Kubrick ; The Haunting (1963) dir. Robert Wise ; The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson ; The Haunted Mind of Shirley Jackson by Zoë Heller

#webweaving #hauntings

th0rns

December 18, 2009

#places

bobbole

Keith Haring, Altarpiece: The Life of Christ

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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

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green-grinning-glitter-ghosts

Was really interested going into this movie because as someone who isn’t very up to speed on any backrooms lore besides the og post I like the backrooms best when there are no monsters, but the environment itself makes you feel unsafe. You’re paranoid and panicking but then you get out and realize that there was nothing to be afraid of, nothing was even there to chase you in the first place it was just your mind tricking itself.

So I think it’s so interesting that this movie did both- there is a monster but it’s You. It’s a monster you made up it’s a physical manifestation of your fear. It hurts people because you hurt people. You’re unsafe because you created the environment and that means your fear is out to get you.

swatstop

my first thought when going in was “i really hope it isn’t too much focus on the entities and more focus on the ambience of the environment” but the way they utilize monsters is so good and much better than some big creature with no meaning behind it

having the monsters have connections to the characters is one of my favorite things the movie did

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bowhaus

More backrooms

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hoodiehorizon

Me the first half of The Backrooms: "oh I get it. He's a down on his luck failed architect and even more failed furniture store owner who's trying to better himself. He'll probably be fascinated with the furniture/architecture of the backrooms and start selling the items there for money + notoriety. And eventually he'll go deeper and deeper to get more and more items until he gets trapped and encounters The Horrors. A classic tale of hubris :) "

Me the second half of the backrooms: