One Thing I Like About Backrooms

Here’s a tip for everyone: if you ever find yourself at the threshold of an inter-dimensional portal, where it seems like solid matter can pass through other solid matter, don’t stick your hand in there. No matter how tentatively. You don’t know what’s going to happen to it. Especially if you’re in a furniture store! Just stick a lamp or a coat rack in there or something. I’m not just mentioning that for yuks, either. I’ve only ever seen one of Kane Parsons’s original Backrooms shorts, so I’m definitely not an expert. But there was so much that he did in that zero-budget short as a teenager that simply works better than a lot of the stuff in the feature film. Part of that is just having the main character fall through the world into the creepy Backrooms with no explanation or warning. The feature’s instigating event is a little bit like that, as the protagonist (Chiwetel Ejiofor as a furniture store owner named Clark) stumbles into the Backrooms accidentally. But every single time…