• eestileib@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    1 hour ago

    So is Backrooms an adaptation of House of Leaves?

    Cause the premise seems very similar, and I’m wondering whether I should bother watching it/recommend HoL to people who liked it.

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    2 hours ago

    Genuine question: what’s the verdict on the movie? I am very tempted to go watch Obsession for a second time, but am also wondering about checking this one out. Is it better or worse or equally good as Obsession?

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      Haven’t watched Obsession, but I loved the Backrooms. I’ve never seen my fiancé more horrified by a movie, and a friend that was with us had to step away for a bit.

      Fair warning though, the protagonist does get verbally agressive/abusive/physically abusive.

      There was also a lot more gore than I was expecting, because Kane typically keeps it light.

      Easily one of my favorite movies this year.

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      Didn’t watch obsession but backrooms is fun. Has a low-budget horror movie vibe which isnt really a bad thing. The horror itself isn’t especially scary, but quite unsettling. The ending I thought was quite weak, it really obviously tries to set itself up for a sequel in quite an off-putting way

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    16 hours ago

    Honestly, perfect place for datacentres. Unlimited water in the pool area, electric sockets are likely live, unlimited space, no noise pollution, just have to put a data cable though the threshold.

    I’m pretty sure the backrooms if they were real, they wouldn’t be a horror thing, it would be full of people mapping it and living there. there would be a small organised millitia to neutralize dangerous stilllives. Plenty of hydroponic agriculture.

    It would be interesting to see cities in the backrooms, where being there is just a normal thing… Nevermind, it already exists, it’s called the Toronto Path

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      there would be a small organised millitia to neutralize dangerous stilllives

      Yes, but the still lifes aren’t the only danger. There is still the time warps, instability of walls and flooring with the null zones, the bacteria.

      And IMO contact with the backrooms clearly a induces a form of paranoid schizophrenia, as seen by some of Kane’s work.

      So it would be an inevitable disaster to use the backrooms for any useful purposes.

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      4 hours ago

      i think the randomly appearing and disapearing chairs and stuff might mean a datacenter would need a lot of maintenance

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        We can study it and use it? what if we get multiple server racks and clip them all into each other, triple the compute power on the same space, although cooling would be the limiting factor.

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        8 hours ago

        i heard that when it was shut down. despite how inhospitable it looked, many didn’t want to leave. they liked living in such a tight community. It didn’t seem dystopian to them.

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    20 hours ago

    He’s just worried about the power bill. It costs a lot to heat and light an infinite number of rooms.

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    17 hours ago

    Barbarian had a joke with landlord getting excited about such “additional square footage”.