Backrooms: The Terror of Getting Lost in the Void
What begins with a strange door appearing out of nowhere in the basement of a furniture store quickly becomes a free-fall descent into absolute madness. If you have ever been left alone in an empty office or the back hallways of a shopping mall and felt a chill down your spine, this film is going to play with your mind in a very cruel way. To understand its roots, there is a concept by anthropologist Marc Augé that perfectly defines what happens in this film: non-places . Augé defined the transit spaces of supermodernity this way—places of transit that lack identity or history, such as an airport waiting room, a generic hotel room, or a subway station. Backrooms is the ultimate consecration of this concept brought to horror cinema. It is the primal fear of existing in a space that, by definition, denies your human existence. We are talking about architectural horror in its purest form. If the Overlook Hotel in The Shining disoriented us with its impossible layout, and works like Hous...
