Backrooms
6/1/202621 min
The new horror movie Backrooms is about some of the creepiest places imaginable: the nondescript, beige-carpeted rooms that populate countless office spaces and discount furniture warehouses. The film stars Chiwetel Ejiofor as the manager of a pirate-themed furniture store, who, as he discusses with his therapist (Renate Reinsve), discovers a secret labyrinth of backrooms – each with a strange and unsettling design. Directed by Kane Parsons, based on his “creepypasta”-inspired web series, the movie doesn’t have a plot so much as a deeply unnerving sense of place.
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[upbeat music] Backrooms is a horror movie about some of the creepiest places imaginable, the nondescript beige carpeted rooms that populate countless office spaces and discount furniture warehouses. If you've ever worked in a rundown office park or shopped for a cheap mattress, the vibe will be instantly familiar. Dingy, claustrophobic, maybe with cheerful music piped through tinny speakers, and always with the unsettling flickering hum of fluorescent lights. That setting forms the central concept of Backrooms, which doesn't have a plot so much as a deeply unnerving sense of place. It's a surreal and unsettling bit of horror based on a popular YouTube series. I'm Stephen Thompson. Today, we are talking about Backrooms on Pop Culture Happy Hour from NPR.
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