{"id":36595,"date":"2022-01-21T15:41:50","date_gmt":"2022-01-21T20:41:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/?p=36595"},"modified":"2022-01-21T15:41:50","modified_gmt":"2022-01-21T20:41:50","slug":"back-rooms-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/2022\/01\/21\/back-rooms-2021\/","title":{"rendered":"Back Rooms (2021)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>\u201cBack Rooms\u201d was born from the digital age, among the 4Chan and Creepypasta realms. It\u2019s a pocket within our world that is completely cut off from the rest of what we could rationally consider reality. It is a series of endless rooms and hallways that stretch for a nigh infinite space, all of which are typically a noxious yellow, completely void of any life, and filled with the annoying, deafening hum of florescent lights. I\u2019m only vaguely familiar with the meme of the Back Rooms, but it\u2019s been widely circulated and explored much in the vein of other digital legends like the Slenderman and Sirenhead.<\/p>\n

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\u201cBack Rooms\u201d is a found footage short that centers on a cameraman who, while working on an independent film project with his friends, trips, falls and wakes up in a bizarre, seemingly inhospitable, and deserted building. In front of endless corridors, empty rooms and hallways, which are mostly illuminated by sickly yellow lights, he wanders aimlessly, room to room, corridor to corridor until he comes across a strange graffiti message on a wall reading: \u201cDon\u2019t move… stay still.\u201d<\/p>\n

Directed by Kane Parsons (also a VFX artist), \u201cBack Rooms\u201d is a truly scary and genuinely unnerving piece of short horror that literally kept me shielding my eyes over and over. Within the span of nine minutes, Parsons drops us in to this utterly impossible, but horrifying dimension, offering complete silence save for the hum of the Back Rooms and the anxious breathing of the camera man. What makes \u201cBack Rooms\u201d so utterly scary is that it taps in to the concept of \u201cLiminal Space,\u201d an environment bereft of life, or motion that feels like a void completely separate from our own world.<\/p>\n

\u201cBack Rooms\u201d plays on that inherent fascination and fear voids and empty spaces, and perfectly realizes the \u201cBack Rooms\u201d Creepypasta. Parsons is a brilliant director who realizes a terrifying world our protagonist is seemingly trapped in. It\u2019s literally fodder our nightmares are composed of. Paired with the grainy VHS aesthetic, and lack of horror score, \u201cBack Rooms\u201d is a fantastic horror film that thrives on deriving terror from the unknown. I can\u2019t wait to see what Kane Parsons can do with a feature format.<\/p>\n

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