What Are Liminal Spaces?Īccording to the "LiminalSpace" community on Reddit, a subforum where users share photos and images of liminal spaces, a liminal space represents "the time between the 'what was' and the 'next.' It is a place of transition, waiting, and not knowing." The Backrooms appears to take place in the early '90s. It begins to the stalk the cameraman room by room as he attempts to navigate a maze of hallways, stairs and liminal spaces that seem to lead nowhere. Suddenly, a horrifying creature making an even more horrifying sound (think: a warped, nightmare version of the '90s AOL dial-up tone) appears. The Backrooms is about a cameraman who, after tripping and presumably getting knocked unconscious while working on what seems to be an independent film project, wakes up in a bizarre, seemingly inescapable and deserted building.Ĭonfronted with endless corridors, empty rooms and hallways mostly illuminated by sickly yellow corporate lighting, the cameraman wanders aimlessly until he comes across a strange graffitied message on a wall: "Don't move. That to me is truly the worst anxiety to ever experience," another wrote. Not being able to know what’s lurking on the other side, waiting for you. "The scariest thing about this is rounding the corners.
“This was the first time in literal months that I was actually scared of something on the internet,” one viewer commented on YouTube after watching the short. Unsettling and cryptic, The Backrooms has mystified horror lovers on the internet who are eager for original content that isn't a legacy horror franchise remake or sequel, or an entry in The Conjuring universe.
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