Backrooms

Haven't seen it yet but hoping to soon. Glad you liked it. Ignore the bots that will tell you that you didn't really like it or that you are intellectually inferior for liking it.

I went in blind with no expectations and was very impressed. It's the best horror movie I've seen in a long time, even if it's not particularly scary.

Exactly my thoughts. Good setup but the last act is some of the dumbest stuff I've ever watched

Yea, I am a little shocked by how loved this movie is.

To each their own, but it was a disjointed, boring mess with no real plot and a subpar finish and monster, IMO.

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Nothing was tied together. The psychiatry aspect was really irrelevant to the plot, as was the psychiatrist’s backstory.

The monster’s origin was non-existent, which is fine, but the dopplegangers’ formation and existence has no relation to the monster and why the monster looks the way it does is just random.

It just feels like there is about 30% missing from the movie.

I will say, the "monster" at the end was a bit silly looking.

It reminded me of the puppet in this video

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Nothing was tied together. The psychiatry aspect was really irrelevant to the plot, as was the psychiatrist’s backstory.

The monster’s origin was non-existent, which is fine, but the dopplegangers’ formation and existence has no relation to the monster and why the monster looks the way it does is just random.

It just feels like there is about 30% missing from the movie.

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The therapy angle was integral to the plot. I took the Backrooms to be a metaphor for unresolved trauma and the way it warps the psyche as we replay those traumas over and over. This was spelled out in that scene in the therapist's childhood living room where the POV keeps sinking down through the floor into another version of the same room, but each time everything is slightly different.

The monster is a distorted pirate version of Clark because Clark doing local commercials in a wacky pirate suit to sell furniture is his worst fear come true. He wanted to be an architect but he lost the house in the divorce and now he's stuck embarrassing himself on TV to keep the furniture store that he's living in afloat. His worst fear is becoming nothing more than the idiot he plays in the commercials. Him as the pirate is his trauma and indignation manifest.

As to why Clark's doppelganger is so much different than the others, it's probably because he's been working, living, and sleeping so close to the portal in his store. His very fresh trauma and resentment have been seeping into the Backrooms and thus, his doppelganger is a monster who mirrors him at his own personal rock bottom (a bitter man living in a furniture store, debasing himself on TV in a pirate suit).