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Official Discussion - Backrooms [SPOILERS] Movie thread (piefed.social)
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Summary

After a therapist's patient disappears into a dimension beyond reality, she must venture into the unknown to save him.

Director
Kane Parsons

Writer
Will Woodik, Kane Parsons

Cast

  • Chiwetel Ejiofor
  • Renate Reinsve
  • Mark Duplass
  • Finn Bennett
  • Lukita Maxwell

Rotten Tomatoes: 88%

Metacritic: 76

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[–] 6 points 5 months ago

Just got out of it. I believe I enjoyed it. It definitely felt like it's own thing, while still being very recognizable to anyone who knows the "source material" if you can call it that.

I think it also was able to avoid most of the baggage the whole backrooms/liminal space memes have at this point. That being said...

SpoilerI think I was enjoying the film way more before it became a mental health allegory. I don't know where else they could have taken the story, but I really enjoyed how much the backrooms "clashed" with reality.

Making it a less "real" space made it kind of predictable. But I admit it's a nitpick.

I am very torn on the pirate monster. On one hand, I'm happy there was something there so "creepypasta". I immediately thought of Candle Cove, and Channel Zero, which I think is a good thing.

But on the other hand, it is a giant spooky pirate.

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    [–] 2 points 4 months ago

    It was fine, I would have liked it to lean more into the weirder side of the liminal spaces, and I was expecting it would focus more on the organisation exploring the backrooms. Overall I don't regret seeing it at the theatre but it was pretty mid.

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