‘Backrooms’ Review: Horror That’s Anything But Stock

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Backroomsis the stuff of pure nightmares. It may originate with an internet creepypasta — onethat blossomedfrom a singlepicture of anempty HobbyTown in Oshkosh, Wisconsin — but the reason this particular legend resonated and spread was its connection to recurring dreams many of us share.

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They go like this: You are somewhere familiar (maybe your childhood home,maybe your office) that’s shifted into something strange and uncanny. The layout isn’t right. Doors lead to nowhere, rooms exist where there shouldn’t be any. Worst of all, there doesn’t seem to be a way out. No matter which way you turn, you only wind upventuringfurther into the maze.

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Kane Parsons’ impressive debut featureBackrooms, adapted from his popular series of YouTube shorts,deploys that universal fearto heighten a relatable and suitablytroubling story about modern loneliness. Itstwo protagonistsare as metaphorically trappedin unsatisfyingprofessional and personal lives as they are physically lostwithin the endless liminal space they discover beneath a dumpy furniture store.

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Its infinite expanse contains room after room filled with junk and odd detritus. Each one is covered in drab carpet and acoustic ceiling tiles, and soaked in the same sickly yellow light andinsect-like buzz of fluorescent lights. The connection between the characters’ fragile mental states and theiraimless journeys through thisunearthly placeare not exactly subtle. Nightmares rarely are.

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This one begins, likeParsons’earlier YouTube shorts, with grainy low-res VHS found footage,apparently recorded by a scientist in 1990 as heventures througha disturbingly drab and eerily unendingspace. Thenthe scene shifts to introduce the two main characters:Clark (Chiwetel Ejiofor), the owner of the aforementioned furniture store, and Mary (Renate Reinsve), his therapist. Clark recently separated from his wife, andhe is not handlingtheir new living arrangementswell. In role play sessions in Mary’s office, hescreams about how he abandoned his own dreams of becoming an architect in order to put her through college, which is how he wound up in retail hell, piloting the sinking ship at Cap’n Clark’s Ottoman Empire in a nondescript suburban strip mall.

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Even beforeClark finds the backrooms lurking beneath his shabby store, he is clearly not okay. With nowhere else to go, he’s taken toliving at Cap’n Clark’s, fallingasleep on floor models while watching late-night informercials. He listens to self-help books about how peopleget trapped in “loops” and “patterns,”then sounds increasingly desperate to escape one in his therapy sessions with Mary. (The “Everything Must Go!” signs hanging throughout Cap’n Clark’s feel like they’re there to torture a man who can never leavea job he hates.) Then, while trying to locate the source of a recurringelectrical issue in the store,Clark stumbles across the wall that containsthe invisibleportal to the backrooms.

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Clark recruits a few of his employees to help him explore the space; one brings along a VHS camcorder to document their findings.That leads to another sequence that mimics the found footage aesthetics ofParsons’earlier shorts, a smart choice that ensures fans of the“Backrooms” viral videos will get more of what they liked out of this glossyA24-backed big-screen production. This scene’s muddy analog 4:3 aesthetic also enhances the pervasiveairof dread as Clark and his allies roam through the backrooms,encounteringspooky sights we can never quite make out, like stacks of old furniture, piles of discarded clothes, and a twinkling Christmas tree surrounded by mannequins (or are those corpses??) sunken into the floor.

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Only 20 years old, Parsons looks like a major director in the making. It’s not just that he’s adept at wringing sustained discomfort out of little more than darkened hallways, flickering overhead lights, distant ominous noises, andhalf-seen creatures — although, to be clear, he’s veryadept at that. Over the course of a brisk 110-minute feature,he keeps finding new unsettling images toperpetually destabilizeour sense of reality. Somehow,his movie about this endless series of repeating rooms never feels repetitive.

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He also draws very committed and at times surprisingly moving performances from Ejiofor andReinsve, whose turns as theprofoundly broken Clark and MaryturnsBackrooms intosomething far more meaningful than a big-screen blowup ofa calling-card horror short.This guy’s not just a special effects traffic cop. He’s got some serious dramatic chops, and an eye for framing an indelible horror image. I can’t wait to see what hedoes next.

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He does end the film on a slightly anticlimactic note, something that might beinevitable when trying to pin down a conclusion to a story built out of a literally infinite placethat’s part of an elaboratemythology. Still, Parsons wisely leaves enough ambiguity about the backrooms’ origins andrules to allow viewers to interpret Clark and Mary’s questfor themselves. (Parsons also gives himself plenty of room to make sequels if he so chooses.) He teases just enough answers to hold everything together without over-explaining what the charactersfind in this subterranean world.

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It is fitting that the backrooms concept emerged from the internet, since the backrooms themselves are a perfect metaphor for the internet: A labyrinth filled with bizarre and disturbing imagery and ideas that often makelittle sense,populated by twisted monsters looking todestroy your body and soul. Once you fall into this labyrinth, it’s very easy to get lost, and to lose touch with your true identity from before you crossed into its limitless spaces.Backroomsmay be set in 1990, but it’s about the horror of now.

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RATING: 8/10

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From slow-burn, arthouse horror films that bored viewers to campy cult classics some moviegoers just didn’t get at first, here are 10 great horror movies audiences were wrong about at first.

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Audiences just didn’t get Karyn Kusama’s Jennifer’s Body when it hit theaters in 2009. The movie follows a teenage girl named Jennifer who turns into a demonic succubus after a violent botched ritual, as well as her best friend Needy who is horrified when she discovers Jennifer is literally eating their male classmates to survive. Those expecting a sexy slasher were instead treated to a campy horror comedy underscored by sharp social commentary, and unfortunately it seemed to go over many viewers’ heads at the time. A poor marketing campaign targeting young men didn’t help either, but thankfully, the film has earned cult status in the years since it was released, with a new appreciation for its ahead-of-its-time feminist themes and tongue-in-cheek late 2000s pop culture.

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