Backrooms
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“The best part is, you can eat them”
Overview
Another film from the internet with a texture all its own, Backrooms is a claustrophobic nightmare that dips into the surreality of disused spaces. Clark (Chiwetel Ejiofor), is dealing with a traumatic divorce and has taken up residence in the marked-down furniture store he owns. He hires an electrician to find out why power bills are ridiculously high, and they discover a series of breaker switches unconnected to anything else on the property. With the reluctant assistance of his therapist Mary (Renate Reinsve), Clark attempts to unravel the mystery of the reality-warping backrooms.
“Sparse yet gripping”
“Imprisonment, memory distortion, and the private hell of mistaking isolation for refuge”
“Jump scares, squirm scares and tiny shiver scares”
Why See This Film
Get used to the phrase “based on the creepypasta of the same name” because these contemporary uncanny tales fill the same space as urban legends of yore— this is a COVID-isolated, fragmented version of the call coming from inside the house. Set within an endless looping non-Euclidean employee breakroom/storage space, The Backrooms eschews gore and grime for the quotidian horror of working in retail and maybe even dying there.
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