The Backrooms (+ Wiki) - Level 80085: The Kiwi Farms

[Starman John]

>Kane Parsons being interviewed on a mainstream american TV show
>Jimmy Fallon pulls up a printed 4chan post of the OG Backrooms image and text
What the fuck has the world come to?

 

[BrainSand63]

The movie has some issues, more towards the end of it all, but as someone who is rarely scared by horror movies anymore there were 3-4 scenes that legitimately had me squirming from how tense and freaky they were. The scene with the ramp especially is absolutely perfect, some of the most effective horror I’ve seen in years.

 

[anliteralidiot]

I liked that I could see Kane Pixel's fingerprints in it. It didn't feel like the studio just took it over, and he was just a face bringing in the views and good-will. I was always thinking of The Oldest View, and how he handled the camera and direction in that, and when I saw the name Reverchon on a sign at the end... It felt like nice nod to that.

It's funny, because my husband gets creeped out by masks and stuff, and this didn't bother him. I'm usually never freaked out by masks, and I didn't want to look at that fucking pirate.

 

[GungusDingaling]

It was I’m thinking of ending things but mid. 5/10, story was aight but it was visually stimulating. It was extremely ugly when they went into the backrooms from the wall.

 

[MeltyTW]

Spoiler

I love the subtle implication that the backrooms could be a sort of platonic realm that we are a reflection of, that the way it "preserves" objects or people could in fact just be a more pure encapsulation of the subject's being or potentially the original. Still life are implied to remember up to the point they were spawned from so from their pov they very much not still. You might perceive them as such but a still life of yourself of the moment you entered or could be said to have entered "remembers" perceiving that as well. Those moments as you remember them are gone but they are preserved in the backrooms.

 

[Rudy Coleman]

I haven't seen the film or even care about any of the backrooms stuff, but I'm gonna make a spinoff called "The Chirp." IYKYK

im so fucking glad jordan peel didnt make this movie because it would have been about white people or gentrification

 

[Rome's rightful successor]

Am I the only one who felt the movie was unintentionally saying how you shouldn't trust black people?

 

[wtfNeedSignUp]

Watched it with my brother, it was overall meh and very boring. Unlike Iron Lung which was smart enough to have the entire film inside the sub, 2/3 of the film is in the real world, haphazardly trying to build the characters, but it fails in it. The black main guy is supposed to come off as "never my fault" type of person but you never really see it come into effect, and if anything it feels mean spirited as he does have a shit life without anything he can do to improve it, but fuck him I guess. The Jewish psychiatrist supposedly wants to save him because she feels she failed her mother, but why? What links both of them she feels obligated to walk into a rape dungeon?

So the film meanders a lot until the few good segments in the halfway points when shit starts happening, and while I like the visuals near the end, it didn't really create a lot of tension with the big monster being a giant retarded goofy pirate.

The ending with the organization felt pointless, like they were going to execute or jail the psychiatrist, why? It's not like she can do anything besides looking like a mad woman.

Edit: The psychiatrist segments were ridiculous in retrospect, even lowballing it that's 60$ a week/month for a guy that literally can barely keeps the lights on in his store. And it ends up with her saying she doesn't know how to help him after all the money she took.

 

[Godchu]

70s-style blaxploitation parody of the Backrooms. call it the Blackrooms

Clark is a crackhead felon living in an abandoned strip mall. Mary is his parole officer

'I'm not saying I don't believe you, but I need proof, nigga"

 

[Lizard Machine Bugs]

Pretty good movie, solid 7/10. It felt like a longer episode of the Youtube series for better or worse, could have afforded to be a bit longer, honestly it felt a bit fast paced. I like how the therapy scene was repeated three times: the first in Mary's office, then with Clark and his fucked up fake wife in his fake house where he tries to 'win', then Mary again with the scientist across from her, he tries to be normal but starts displaying the same obsession Clark did. I liked Mary's face acting in that last scene.

 

[he who has thus come/gone]

I would give it a solid B. I think it would have been a B+/A- if there were a few tweaks. The black guy goes crazy without enough explanation. It needed about 5 to 10 minutes explaining how he became so capable and insane within what could be at most a week irl. Is time different there? How does he know about the fucked up version of himself and why do the other things react to it? If that were explained, it would have been better.

Otherwise, just as good as anything Hollywood normally puts out and I support fucking with Hollywood.

 

[Jemn Oopi]

Login-walled story with 420,000 words: Two Gay Furries Kissing in the Backrooms

tl;dr:

• An autistic programmer is transformed into a red fox furry (he is not a furry and experiences some distress at the change), a bubbly life-insurance-NEET fanfic writer is transformed into a blue cat furry (it is literally his "fursona" and he is ecstatic at the change), and both are teleported to the backrooms, where they meet and become friends.
• At the end of book 1, the cat confesses his crush on the fox, and romance ensues.
• At the end of book 2, the fox starts fucking the cat in the ass.
• At the end of book 3, they "get engaged".
• At the end of book 4, they "get married".
• So far, the story has just been random fluff while the protagonists explore (though, early on, the autistic fox did try some experiments to figure out what was happening), and there has not been any tension (the characters do not need to eat or drink, and they do not appear to be aging even though the autist has made five years of entries in his autistic diary). However, in book 5 tension finally rears its head, as it becomes apparent that the backrooms are responding to the protagonists' actions in a way that implies sapience.
• At the end of book 5, the protagonists encounter an entity that appears to be in control of the backrooms. The autist inadvertently antagonizes it by using an autistic mental failsafe technique to trick it into revealing that it can read the protagonists' minds. The entity abandons them, and the backrooms' previous warm climate and consistent day/night cycle are replaced by freezing cold and pitch darkness.
• At the end of book 6 (after what the autistic fox estimates as literally a decade of wandering in the dark--he hides this from the cat), the protagonists are overtaken by deadly glitched-out architecture that is spreading like a cancer, and have no choice but to pray that the entity return and save them. The entity does so, on condition that they stop plotting against it, continue exploring the backrooms, and give it ideas for new architecture.