As a vigorous supporter of all things Liminal Horror you'd think I'd have already watched the original 2022 YouTube phenom Backrooms from creator Kane Parsons -- you can watch it here -- but somehow (i.e. I'm terribly un-hip) I missed it. And now A24 has turned the thing into a feature film that's out on May 29th, and you can watch the teaser trailer down below. I haven't watched the teaser yet because I haven't watched the original short -- so I ask y'all: should I go watch the original short? Or should I just wait for the feature? Any thoughts? I realize that none of you have seen the feature yet so who knows if it's just a big budgeted retread of the short's scares. But I'm leaning towards watching the short ASAP since I assume this new version has been made with the original's fans in mind as its base audience. Anyway with a cast that includes two of my favorite working actors, Chiwetel Ejiofor and Renate Reinsve, there's no way I'm not all up in this thing. Here's the teaser (and up top is the oddly hypnotic poster, a version of which which you can buy on A24's site right now):
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Kane has a whole series of Backrooms vids on YouTube, some are more interesting than others. If you want to pivot and watch something he did that's liminal but not Backrooms-specific, his "Oldest View" series is excellent.
Rad, thanks for that info. When I fall behind on something like this I usually try to bury my head in the sand until the movie's out but I went ahead and watched the first Backrooms last night and I found it very effective! I will put a pin in that though now and go watch this other series.
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