• eestileib@lemmy.blahaj.zone
    4·
    9 hours 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.

  • Nangijala@feddit.dkEnglish
    2·
    10 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?

    • some pirate@lemmy.dbzer0.com
      1·
      45 minutes ago

      I liked backrooms way more than obsession, it has some interesting themes, suspense and some unpredictability. For me obsession was just another default American horror movie where the characters make stupid decisions, but I guess they are both OK considering their budgets

    • Olgratin_Magmatoe@slrpnk.netEnglish
      2·
      9 hours ago

      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.

      • Nangijala@feddit.dkEnglish
        1·
        4 hours ago

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

        I should hope so, since it’s a horror movie xD

        But cool. I’ll check it out. I know a bit about Kane Pixel and his style through Wendigoon and I’m sure he made something freaky with the concept. I blank on the lead actor’s name, but I really liked him in 12 years a slave and its cool to see him in a movie like this one!

        You should really consider seeing Obsession as well, my friend. It is currently threatening to kick The Wailing out of my personal number 1 spot for favourite horror movie of all time. The bedroom scene is one of the most viscerally terrifying scenes I have ever seen. I’m a big fan of horror and while I do scare relatively easily, I rarely carry the fear with me after the credits.

        Obsession kept me awake for two straight days because of that fucking bedroom scene. Total masterpiece of a scene, and the movie is very, very close to being flawless. Maybe don’t bring fiancé if she isn’t good with horror, though, because this one embeds itself into your nervous system for a little while after seeing it. Not only is it scary, it’s also funny as hell and deeply tragic and quite the conversation starter.

    • davetortoise@reddthat.com
      2·
      10 hours ago

      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

      • Nangijala@feddit.dkEnglish
        1·
        4 hours ago

        Thank you. If I understood wendigoon correctly, the movie is basically the prequel to the entire YouTube series, which I thought was pretty neat, but sucks that he didn’t stick the landing. Bit of a bummer.

        I think Kane is super good at making spaces feel threatening. I still remember that one he made about the giant on wheels, that chases a guy through a mall and it’s borderline ridiculous how such a silly concept can be this scary, haha.

        I look forward to checking it out.

        Highly recommend Obsession as well, my friend. That film is terrifying and the ending is horrific in the best way possible.

  • 🍉 DrRedOctopus 🐙🍉@lemmy.world
    57·
    23 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

    • Olgratin_Magmatoe@slrpnk.netEnglish
      6·
      9 hours ago

      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.

    • festnt@sh.itjust.works
      4·
      12 hours ago

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

      • 🍉 DrRedOctopus 🐙🍉@lemmy.world
        1·
        11 hours ago

        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.

      • 🍉 DrRedOctopus 🐙🍉@lemmy.world
        9·
        15 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.

  • Yaky@slrpnk.netEnglish
    23·
    1 day ago

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