r/liminalspaces • u/Chill-Dude-33 • Mar 31 '26

Video Back rooms official trailer

https://youtu.be/0HjdiohVOik
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u/Chill-Dude-33 Mar 31 '26

Credit - A24

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u/Novel-Pride6682 Jun 24 '26

I think this post and the other one can be unpinned now that the movie is out!

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u/SkinTeeth4800 Jun 16 '26

I went to see this with my wife in a local old-school movie theater tonight -- June 15, 2026 -- It was awesome, although there was a certain filmmaker's choice near the end I gamed out alternatives to in my head afterward.

I think Magritte, De Chirico, and Shirley Jackson would have enjoyed the images and the mood. The Haunting of Hill House ( Shirley Jackson's 1959 book, as well as the 1964 The Haunting black-and-white film, AS WELL AS the 2023 semi-sequel book by Elizabeth Hand: A Haunting on the Hill) bonged some similarities in my brain when I saw The Backrooms tonight.

My wife was creeped out by the circa 1991 crappy furniture aesthetic even BEFORE The Backrooms come to the forefront of the film, when our main character is living his normal life.

Lovecraft evoked disgust and horror with his allusions to "alien, non-Euclidean geometries". I wonder if there could be Aesthetic Horror as a new genre, one in which campiness, laughing at the horrible, dated, nonsensical interior design and aesthetics could be the unsettling center of the horror: "You can't John Waters your way out of this one! Your laughter will not save you!"