I saw Backrooms over the weekend and enjoyed it. I do love that an incredibly young creator is being given the opportunity to make the jump from online video to the big screen, but if you’ve listened to any interviews with Backrooms creator/director Kane Parsons you understand that he was more than ready for that leap.
As far as transitioning an online series to the big screen, this is a genuine success. I know nothing of the online mythology (which is apparently deep) but Parsons made the right choice to focus on the space and experience over building a cinematic universe (yet).
To an older brain like mine the plot comes across as a mish-mash of books like House Of Leaves and Horrorstör, so while the premise didn’t seem particularly “new” to me, seeing those kinds of spaces brought to life was a bit thrilling. Perhaps the oddest thing was seeing the alternate spaces created by Backrooms and finding them less scary and more cool than I probably should’ve.
To those still interested but on the fence because they keep hearing how scary Backrooms is; it’s less scary than you think, there is almost no visual violence, and I personally found the he overall vibe more meditative than stressful. I’d catch this in a theater while you can, but I also think it will work well on the smaller screen since size and scale are less important than snackable spaces in Parsons’s visual approach.
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