Written by Will Soodik
Directed by Kane Parsons
Clark: "For starters, they can't feel anything. Can you imagine how good that must feel? I mean, there's no thoughts, no pain, no ego. No fear. They simply... exist. Like furniture."
Not so long ago, there was an episode of American Horror Stories that tackled this very idea with middling results. This movie of course would deal with those ideas on a more ambitious scale.
Focusing on a furniture store owner named Clark (Chiwetel Ejiofor), this movie delved into the creepy pasta with good effect. Clark's life was established as being rathef terrible if his therapy sessions with Mary (Renate Reinsve) were anything to go by.
He seemed dissatisfied with his job and resentful of his unseen wife for leaving him. When it came to his wife, he was really miffed at her for blaming him for everything and for the fact that she wouldn't help with the bills and so on. Clark however would take solace in the strangest way possible.
Sticking with the creepy pasta itself, Clark's world got a lot more interesting when he realised there was another world within the walls of his furniture store. He even enlisted his staff member Kst (Lukita Maxwell) and her boyfriend, Bobby (Finn Bennett) to help explore this world but that turned out to be a rather bad idea.
Along with another world in the walls, there was also an unknown entity that had no problem killing anyone that disturbed it. On top of that, the more time that Clark spent in the other world, the more his grip on reality began to crack.
That's made all the more apparent in the third act when he held Mary (who was going through her own trauma) hostage and made her pretend to be his wife. Throw in the arrival of Async scientist, Phil (Mark Duplass) and this movie took something of an interesting turn.
- There's been a lot of commentary on the age of the director. I didn't even know he was a YouTuber prior to this movie's release.
- Mary's issues included her mother and a childhood home that was being demolished.
- Avan Jogia appeared at the start of the movie as an Async employee. It's a very blink and miss cameo.
- Chronology: Async have been around since 1990 but Clark's story seemed more recent.
Backrooms took the creepy pasta meme and delivered a very engaging science fiction horror. Skillfully directed by Kane Parsons with two strong central performances, it's fair to say the hype for this one would be justified.
Rating: 8 out of 10
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