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Backrooms is a compelling film with a strong narrative, well-developed characters and an immersive atmosphere. The visuals are stunning and the music a masterpiece. The pacing is excellent and the overall entertainment value is high. It is a well-crafted and impressive film that explains a key aspect of the Backrooms lore.

I had fun! Me and two of my buddies went at like 8pm and had a very enjoyable experience!

Masterfully written and unforgivingly frightening—a testament to the talent of later generations.

Backrooms works best as a trippy alternative reality that reflects viewer anxieties of all kinds. The movie held me when it was weird and inscrutable, less so when it became a conventional horror movie. Mildly recommended. detroitcineaste

As someone who has heard of the back rooms but who doesn’t know a whole lot about it I walked into the back rooms expecting a decent movie but walked out wanting more from it and walked out thinking wow that was a interesting movie I really loved what Kane Parsons did with the film. The directing in this film is incredible. I would’ve never ever known it was directed by a 20 year year-old if I hadn’t been aware, this film is quite enjoyable even at its slowest moments they were very few moments where I knew what direction the film was taking and what I like about this film is that the direction that Kane Parsons takes it is very weird and it shows that he’s not afraid to take the film in a weird direction and the film really embraces that it’s a weird eerie disturbing film I also really love the mix of found footage and non-found footage the mix is what gave the film that really disturbing feeling when there’s found footage scenes. It feels eerie and you’re always curious what’s going to happening next and it really gives you this kind of loose heartfeeling when the film is non-found footage you always feel like something is going to come out from somewhere or it always feels like somethings watching which gives you a feeling that your heart is tight and all these elements work incredibly well for me i really have no problems or complaints I mean the film stays pretty strong from start to finish and doesn’t really weaken ever. In fact the film slowly grabs your attention more and more and the more the film progresses the more you enjoy it not only is the back rooms a solid adaptation of Internet, creepy pasta but it’s also a very deeply fascinating film

Is every year a good year for horror, now? Well, I am not complaining. Despite Backrooms & Hokum being solid entries, Obsession has clearly got my attention. But yes, do not give Backrooms a miss because of Obsession. If you love movies set in Liminal Spaces, then Backrooms is the perfect **** period in life when you are really frustrated with your life, and you don't take any effort to make amends, that is where you find Clark, an architect forced to work as a furniture salesman. He discovers a hidden space in the basement of his shop. A space that is never-ending. But this space may not be just another empty space. Kane Parsons joins Curry Barker as the two young horror filmmakers to deliver bonafide original stories in the same year. Backrooms started as a series on YouTube, that sort of gives you a brief intro into what you can expect in the feature length film. The feature film is an expanded version of his idea wherein the focus is on 2-3 characters getting lost in the space within the shop & getting hunted by an unknown entity. As with all movies on liminal spaces, Backrooms can get a bit repetitive - but at the same time, it is anxiety-inducing. That is the entire thing about liminal spaces, and Parsons gets that right. There is a lot of subtext in Backrooms as well. The performances are good. Chiwetel Ejiofor hasn't missed the mark even once. Awards favourite, Renate Reinsve continues to impress. Mark Duplass, Finn Bennett & Lukita Maxwell co-star. Backrooms is proof yet again of how brilliant our future filmmakers are. Do check it out if you haven't yet.

First-time director Kane Parsons leaves room for his creepy YouTube shorts to expand and level up, but not to lose touch with what made them so provocative to begin with. Just like its quick-hit predecessors, the Backrooms feature-length pairs a distinctly ‘90s aura, all faceless fluorescent buzz and sterile cubicle décor, with a glitchy, game-inspired tilt of the surreal. Impossibly-sized rooms with pointless corridors. Stairways to nowhere. Broken physics and a vague, unsettling sense of shambling life just around the corner. Like a headache in analog, this setting should provide unconscious winces and a strong, inexplicable urge to escape for anyone who served time as a twentieth-century office drone. Honestly, it might be one of the most effective horror settings ever for members of that crowd. I just wanted to get out of there. While the aesthetic is certainly Backrooms’s strongest asset, the scant, metaphorically-rich storytelling worked for me, too. Like most good mysteries, it shows enough to make us think without explaining enough to tell us *what* to think. I saw a lot of pressing modern topics behind the cover story here - notes about toxic masculinity, runaway ego, the empty American dream, surveillance states and artificial intelligence - but those are subtle, not plastered in bold type, and they’re rarely the focus. No, we’re primarily here to plumb the depths of this weirdly alluring underground labyrinth, but if you’re looking for something extra underneath the wallpaper, there’s plenty to find. Like an Eraserhead for the COVID generation, Backrooms bears powerful feelings, distressing visuals and an essential sense of familiarity that grounds the whole package somewhere adjacent to reality. It’s a skewed reality, like the outcome of feeding Silent Hill 2 and Paranormal Activity into a hallucinating machine, but a recognizable one. I’m eager to keep chasing this rabbit, to see how deep his hole really goes.

Não recomendo para quem não conhece a franquia, pois não vai entender algumas coisa. Efeitos visuais:7,5 Atuação:8,5 Ambientação:8,0 Cenários:10,0

Backrooms (18) is a psychological horror starring Chiwetel Ejiofor as Clark, aka as Captain Clark, the owner of a furniture warehouse of the same name, who frequently dresses up as a pirate to advertise his Ottoman Empire, aided by the video skills of Bobby, the boyfriend of his sole employee, Kat. Clark is persuaded by Mary (Renate Reinsve), his therapist, to role play the events of the night in which his wife threw him out of the house. Meanwhile, Clark calls in an electrician regarding the power outages in the warehouse. They discover an alternative power source has been added to the fuse box in the basement but for no obvious reason. One night, Clark who is sleeping at the store, discovers that there is a suite of rooms adjacent to the basement. The film is largely about his exploration of these rooms. It is difficult to describe this film. There are a few jump scares but no ghouls or demons, although that does not mean there is no danger in the rooms. For those who fear being lost in a labyrinth, this film plays on that but is also about human curiosity and our ability to let go of the familiar and move into the unknown. Is Clark mentally ill, the stress of his loneliness and a failing business, combining to unbalance him and do these bizarre, sometimes Escher-like rooms that seem to endlessly continue, exist only in his disturbed mind, or is this an alternative dimension to which his basement is merely an access point? Mary, the therapist, has had a difficult childhood and there are a number of scenes set in her former home, where she lived with her mother. That the house is about to be torn down for development seems to be trying to tell us something about belonging and change but this is never fully connected to Clark's experience to give us an explanation of what this film is about. Whilst the film is not boring, it is not particularly entertaining either and you will not be any the wiser about its meaning by the end. For those of you who like the weird and unusual, this is probably one to watch, for those who prefer a more conventional horror, go elsewhere.

An interesting film with many unanswered questions at the end. As someone who knew nothing about the background to this film, it clearly had many elements from many other films. I felt that the director was heavily leaning on others work, but that it held its own too! The two protagonists were great, and kept me watching to the end. Not even remotely scary though, just a bit weird. The yellow wallpaper was awful and memorable! I'd definitely watch it again.

Атмосфера, комбінація видів зйомок, ідей і виконань аномалій просто перфект. шкода що це лише фільм а не серіал. The atmosphere, the combination of filming types, ideas and performances of anomalies is just ****'s a pity that this is only a movie and not a series

Genuinely good, creepy and mind twisting. Led me down a path of exploring all the creepy pasta that preceded it, and it looks like they did their best to honor it while bringing it to Hollywood

A movie that could’ve played out really well, but it chose to be a lot of things except being a cohesive one. It’s disturbingly poor and boring as hell.

Disturbing and thought-provoking at the same time. Brilliant. See it for the experience.

7.5/10 I admired the technical aspects of the film more than its horror elements, especially the set design, which was incredibly well done and easily the standout for me, Chiwetel Ejiofor and Renate Reinsve also delivered good performances, i also have to give credit to A24 for giving and trusting Kane Parsons with the opportunity, they basically taking the risk, but i don't think they're going to regret it. Parsons is only a year older than me, and if more studios were willing to take chances on young talent the way A24 does, the future of young filmmaker would be bright, from a filmmaking perspective, i have a lot of respect for what he accomplished here. As for the Backrooms itself, the technical execution was far more compelling to me than the story or lore surrounding them, the mythology never fully grabbed my attention, perhaps because the film intentionally holds back a lot of information, the film seem confident that they'll explore those details further in the sequel. The horror and claustrophobic atmosphere were enjoyable to watch, though i found them more fun and intriguing than genuinely terrifying, the film still executes its scares reasonably well, even if it occasionally relies on some cheap jumpscares. Overall, Backrooms is a very impressive achievement for a 20-year-old filmmaker, its technical craftsmanship and filmmaking are genuinely strong, while the horror elements remain entertaining enough despite the lack of deeper explanations for its world and lore, even with some missing information, the film kept me engaged throughout its runtime, and that's more than enough for me to consider it a successful experience.

Genuinely great backrooms interpretation, I love the way Parsons created this liminal, empty, but also terrifying space.

A film that goes nowhere. It tries to be The Shining, Silent Hill, Stranger Things, Cube, and a found footage film all at once, full of pointless subplots, and the few things it does resolve are rushed. I'm giving it a 4 for some interesting sets.

One of the worst films I have ever seen and I like cheesy 'stupid' horrors. It was so boring. I almost fell asleep a few times. My partner has a different taste in movies and he thought it was awful also. Absolutely brutal.

Atmosphere and environment were well done. Chiwetel Ejiofor's acting was fantastic, and overall I had a good time and scare. People who are mad are just nerds, or people who like jumpscares way too much.

es genuinamente una de las peliculas mas aterradoras de la decada sin necesitar ecenas demaciado grotescas, Las escenas estilo found fotage fueron de las mejores e incluso las normales son increibles, La revelacion de las entidades es posiblemente la escena mas aterradora y se mantiene asi por casi el resto de la pelicula Si te gusto el corto original o calquiera de los videos de la serie de kane, entonces vas a amar esta pelicula

Ну типа фильм такое для фанатов бекрумса норм зайдет но кто не шарит за фандом не знаю понравится ли, в начале скучновато но сам сюжет хорошо придумали, под конец фильм начал раскрываться и стал немного веселее, но не очень, сомнительный фильм только для любителей либо фанатов бекрумса

Historia poco trabajada, escenas de relleno que no aportan a la historia y actuación exótica en el mal sentido. En realidad no explican muchas cosas y la encuentro pobre

After watching the whole movie I understood absolute nothing. But that emptiness drove me crazy into the lore that i analyzed and this is how Backrooms suppost to be. I like the whole portration of the Still Life. When Clark picks up cameras - Still Life copies him. When he eats Still Life corpse's - Still Life also eats him. Just looking into details makes it so good

Style over substance - After about an hour, it was clear that nothing was going to be revealed or explained enough to make it rational. I like artistic films just as much as the next guy but this film seemed like it was deliberately being vague, with no pay off. There were moments early on where it felt like it was building up to a classic horror - but it seemed to coast all the way till the end.

10/10 que filme bom da misericórdia, isso na minha opinião em questão de terror de verdade dá uma surra na maioria dos terror atuais como o telefone preto 2 e principalmente fnaf que teve um terror muito fraco, sem contar que ele não explica diretamente algumas coisas ele deixa o telespectador tentar entender e decifrar e isso é muito bom, apesar de ter algumas coisas que eles explicam ainda teve gente que não entendeu, triste que essa gente que não entendeu e criticou o filme por isso deve estar com o cérebro derretido pela internet.

Muy buena película, realmente vale la pena verla, pero el problema es que gente que no conoce los backrooms se confunde porque explicaron muy poco, en verdad tenían que agregar más explicaciones para gente nueva, pero para mi que conozco los backrooms desde el 2019 me encanto llore al verla por lo hermoso que fue entender un poco de referencia y más, gracias A24 por hacer tan hermosa película

Reading the negative reviews, you can tell those people don't understand anything to do with this movie. I'd like to point out how you're not supposed to understand the movie fully, that's the entire point of the backrooms; you aren't supposed to understand anything about, its about exploring an unknown place that feels weirdly familiar. But that doesn't mean you're not allowed to make theories, that's what's good about the backrooms and the movie. I've seen so many theories about the still-lifes and everything and I think that it's great how everyone wants to think more of this wonderful movie. Another thing with the critic reviews, this is a PSYCHOLOGICAL horror not a slasher, its going to be about mental health and not give you a million jump scares (speaking of which - that bird scared the **** outta me lol) Wonderful movie though, love how Kane Pixels designed the backrooms of his own universe of it instead of following the boring slop of level 67 bacteria entity, if that was the case; nobody would like it except 8 year old **** players and the story would be genuine ****.

Absolute garbage compared to the original videos. Not good at all. Too much unnecessary bull crap that doesn’t matter. The monster was stupid and not scary at all compared to the originals. It’s like reading a really good book and then seeing the movie and it ****. I figured the movie wouldn’t be as good as the original videos but it was way worse than I thought. Boring and stupid. I’m just in shock at how bad it was. If Kane had more say in the movie I guarantee it would’ve been better. I’m assuming he didn’t have a lot of say in the movie. I just can’t believe how bad it was. The monster wasn’t anything at all like the original videos were. They were mysterious and scary in the originals. The monster in the movie was so obvious and just not scary at all. Also the ending was so abrupt and predictable. I seriously just cannot get past how bad it was.

Very interesting take on backrooms idea and liminality. I was not sure what to expect going in, but that was not it. I'm happy to be surprised. A must watch for those who don't 'need' monsters in their backrooms.

Boring AF. I got so bored I had to leave early. This guy isn't good enough for theater.

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Can be more stressful and more scary but lore accurate, it was a good movie but fore an horror movie that could be more interesting

Backrooms is a really cool, slow burn horror movie that goes off the rails in the final act. There are sequences that bring to mind the best of The Shining, The Blair Witch Project, and the Cube trilogy. Chiwetel Ejiofor and Renate Reinsve went all in. The monsters could have been scarier. I was expecting H.R. Giger and I got Terry Gilliam.

"As you walk through life, the untrained mind accumulates loops, habits, behaviours to keep you drifting and in circles. Creating the same problem, reaching for the same solutions over and over again. What I did, one that kept me safe, when I was a child, you know, I learned to push people away before they could hurt me. And now, as an adult, still stuck right where I started. Alone."

No respect for the non Kane pixels version of the backrooms, it didn’t have a lot of thing I would have liked it to

As somebody with a minor phobia of going out-of-bounds in video games, this movie exploits it mercilessly. Set in a time before "noclip" meant anything, they crafted a surprisingly deep and logical theme for the horror, for people trapped in the past. It's even easy to follow without seeing the YT series!

I know people don't get it about the backrooms as a fun you should watch youtube what backrooms come from the origin But the Backrooms lore is often about something deeper than that. In the Kane Pixels version, the story centers on Async Research Institute and its attempt to open a gateway to another dimension. The scientists believe they have made a revolutionary discovery -possibly a space with nearly unlimited room for storage, research, or future development. The horror comes from what happens next: • They discover a place they don't understand. The dimension doesn't behave like normal reality. People can become lost. Strange phenomena occur. The more they explore, the more dangerous and mysterious it becomes

I was familiar with the concept of the Backrooms from games and Kane Parson's shorts on the topic, so of course I had to see this. I knew of the many interpretations of the Backrooms that could be used to tell this story, and while I don't think I would have gone with Parson's interpretation of this movie, I will say it was okay. While the story seemed somewhat mediocre and left a lot to be desired, and I don't think all the characters were done right or fairly, the movie shines for what is the main attraction: the backrooms. The use of them, and their showcasing of liminal space, is done masterfully. It is very obvious the cinematographers appreciated the concept, and enjoyed their work. You see their use of space everywhere and some of my favorite scenes were not even in the backrooms, but in the real world where simple places were given the same liminal treatment. And in this, perhaps there is a message between our world and world of the backrooms in more ways than what the movie explicitly lets known. And it is mysteries and scenes like that that make this film more of an art film, than a theatrical narrative. And it is good for that purpose.

Me gustó mucho la cinematografía, la banda sonora y la atmósfera que construye la película. Las actuaciones son buenas y logra atraparte, pero el desarrollo y la ejecución no me parecieron los más adecuados. Omite demasiadas cosas importantes para comprender mejor la historia y termina dejando demasiado trabajo al espectador.

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Me gustó, me hizo reír bastante. Los jumpscares no estuvieron mal. Es muy interesante, me gustaría que saliese otra película.

Such a mid movie. You can tell it was done by a 20 year old because there wasn't much to the story. Just a few good scares, but the movie just ends without any context. It could've been so much better, and explored so much more concepts.

Such a smart film and well crafter experience. The tension and anticipation was on point. The characters work very well and the visuals elevate this film in a lot of ways. The camera angles are well thought, the deeper contrast between different scenes provides great visual storytelling (you'll understand if you watch it). Got me hooked from the first minute. And, if I were to give it one last praise, is that it succeeds in both telling a good story and also flashing out and delving into the deeper narrative undertones in a balanced way.

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VERY good! Does exactly what you expect and want. I don't usually watch horror movies, but this one had me on the edge of my seat and then cringing. You can hear the audience murmur "no no no, don't go any further!" The wrap-up changes pace and tone to bring the film to a swift conclusion and that's where it struggles, but doesn't truly stumble. It will leave you wanting more and asking a lot of questions, so that's a win.

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"Hey, I got a cool idea - there's all these mysterious rooms behind the walls of real rooms, like backrooms or something" "Cool idea... how did they get there?" "I dunno" "Why are they there?" "I dunno" "What are they?" "I dunno"

Backrooms is a good and scary film by youtuber Kane Pixels as his first feature film that's scare doesn't rely on jumpscares but rather liminal spaces and the feeling that you're alone when you really aren't.

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