Episode Description
This week we review and discuss Backrooms, a science fiction horror movie directed by Kane Parsons and starring Chiwetel Ejiofor, Renate Reinsve and Mark Duplass, about Clark, a furniture store owner, and Mary, his therapist, discover a dimension of seemingly endless liminal spaces accessed through the basement of the store.
We discuss the impact the backrooms had on us as a concept, what it means for movies that a movie studio gave a 20 year old first time director full creative control over an original concept, whether the backrooms are scary in the first place and whether the movie succeeds in realising the horror of liminal spaces and building on the original idea effectively and whether explaining the backrooms aided or diminished the horror, how liminal horror compares to its cousin cosmic horror and to real world horrors such as global warming and pandemics, and much more.
Check out our other reviews and clips on all major platforms here:
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00:00 Intro
00:18 Movie Recommendations (Fuze, Don't Trust The B--- in Apartment 23)
06:58 Synopsis & Overall Impressions
11:58 Spoiler Discussion
54:38 Conclusion & Ratings
We discuss the impact the backrooms had on us as a concept, what it means for movies that a movie studio gave a 20 year old first time director full creative control over an original concept, whether the backrooms are scary in the first place and whether the movie succeeds in realising the horror of liminal spaces and building on the original idea effectively and whether explaining the backrooms aided or diminished the horror, how liminal horror compares to its cousin cosmic horror and to real world horrors such as global warming and pandemics, and much more.
Check out our other reviews and clips on all major platforms here:
https://linktr.ee/EyeOfTheStormMoviePodcast
00:00 Intro
00:18 Movie Recommendations (Fuze, Don't Trust The B--- in Apartment 23)
06:58 Synopsis & Overall Impressions
11:58 Spoiler Discussion
54:38 Conclusion & Ratings