What Art History Can Reveal About the ‘Backrooms’ Aesthetic
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"Backrooms" is a low-budget project that hits a nerve. A yellowed internet photo creates a horror film that has already seen more than 20 million people. Now it also runs in our cinema. From B. Schwinde [more]]>
Millions of fans celebrated "Backrooms" as a web phenomenon. Now it became a horror movie with stars like Chiwetel Ejiofor and Renate Reinsve. The result is a cinematic disaster.
A director just 21 years old, a ridiculous budget, Chiwetel Ejiofor and Renate Reinsve in the lead... This film inspired by a famous urban internet legend captivated us from end to end.
In theaters this Wednesday, "Backrooms" is the work of Kane Parsons, a 20-year-old prodigy youtuber. On the other side of a hidden door, the owner of a furniture store discovers a maze as mysterious as it is distressing. Verdict? A malignant psychological horror film that stimulates the spectator's imagination and confronts him with his own fears. - A magisterial and agonizing essay: our opinion on "Backrooms", the first film by the yotuber Kane…
Without being fully convincing, especially because of its rhythm, Backrooms, in theaters this Wednesday, attacks on standardisation, material but also mental, with malice. This film is above all the symbol of a new era for horror cinema, plucking in the pool of creators from the internet.
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