Backrooms is the best horror movie since Weapons

Here's why yellow wallpaper and florescent lighting is about to become the new face of horror Horror fans who aren’t already well-versed in the viral “Backrooms” creepypasta may have a hard time understanding, at first glance, why a bunch of empty rooms with yellow wallpaper and fluorescent lighting are inherently creepy enough to drive an entire movie. They may also wonder why A24 initially chose to market that movie, Backrooms, with a teaser that simply pans down floor by floor through a series of those rooms. Kane Parsons’ Backrooms answers those questions efficiently, and with a tremendous shudder. The expansion of Parsons’ series of YouTube shorts (the most popular of which has been viewed more than 78 million times) is deeply unnerving. Better yet, it’s haunting. In a spectacle-based film environment where it’s easy to forget most of the movies we watch before we’ve even left the theater, Backrooms leaves lingering shivers and ongoing anxieties. It’s smart, “elevated” horror for the tired-of-slashers crowd, but it has plenty of slasher shocks as well. The best recent comparison is Zach Cregger’s Weapons, another deeply frightening movie also built around excavating the uncann