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i heard that when it was shut down. despite how inhospitable it looked, many didn't want to leave. they liked living in such a tight community. It didn't seem dystopian to them.

I'm obviously only going be the movie lore, I have not consumed the entire backroom corpus

We can study it and use it? what if we get multiple server racks and clip them all into each other, triple the compute power on the same space, although cooling would be the limiting factor.

its baeed on kanes backrooms, not the wiki one

Check out this incel, so obsessed with Nikki he had to see here twice in the same day.

That's a wild 24 hours!

My impression is that Backrooms is a more unique concept and it's focus may be more on telling this weird, complex story about people and governments being exposed to an inexplicable phenomena, where Obsession is an intimate story that focuses on the complexities of relationships in a modern context.

So, I mean, maybe it was unfair of me to ask if one is as good as the other as they try to do very differenet things. Probably should have asked if they have a similar entertainment value. Because as a sucker for psychological and interpersonal horror, I don't expect that I will connect in the same way with Backrooms as I did with Obsession, but I hope it's at least a fun ride that would be worth a movie ticket. :D

As long as Backrooms isn't as terrible as The Happening, then I'm good. It's almost been 20 years and I'm still low key mad that I spent money on a ticket for that POS movie. The fact that it became an internet meme years later, didn't help my regret and disdain. XD to think, back then, you expected every movie to be of a certain standard of quality as a movie goer. If the happening was released today it would be considered a masterpiece on Netflix, lol.

Fair warning though, the protagonist does get verbally agressive/abusive/physically abusive.

I should hope so, since it's a horror movie xD

But cool. I'll check it out. I know a bit about Kane Pixel and his style through Wendigoon and I'm sure he made something freaky with the concept. I blank on the lead actor's name, but I really liked him in 12 years a slave and its cool to see him in a movie like this one!

You should really consider seeing Obsession as well, my friend. It is currently threatening to kick The Wailing out of my personal number 1 spot for favourite horror movie of all time. The bedroom scene is one of the most viscerally terrifying scenes I have ever seen. I'm a big fan of horror and while I do scare relatively easily, I rarely carry the fear with me after the credits.

Obsession kept me awake for two straight days because of that fucking bedroom scene. Total masterpiece of a scene, and the movie is very, very close to being flawless. Maybe don't bring fiancé if she isn't good with horror, though, because this one embeds itself into your nervous system for a little while after seeing it. Not only is it scary, it's also funny as hell and deeply tragic and quite the conversation starter.

Thank you. If I understood wendigoon correctly, the movie is basically the prequel to the entire YouTube series, which I thought was pretty neat, but sucks that he didn't stick the landing. Bit of a bummer.

I think Kane is super good at making spaces feel threatening. I still remember that one he made about the giant on wheels, that chases a guy through a mall and it's borderline ridiculous how such a silly concept can be this scary, haha.

I look forward to checking it out.

Highly recommend Obsession as well, my friend. That film is terrifying and the ending is horrific in the best way possible.

Oh, I couldn't disagree more on your interpretation on obsession. Bear is not stupid and he doesn't make his decisions out of stupidity. Everything that happens after the dinner scene, he knows exactly what's going on and he doesn't care. That is why it becomes so scary on so many levels.

I'm still curious about Backrooms and it is totally fair to not like Obsession as much as Backrooms, but the way you talk about it, it seems like you wither missed the point of Obsession or you didn't pay attention to the story.

Oh I've heard this one. What if it's already full of infinite people and infinitely more arrive?

With infinite lawsuits

in the lore, the source is unknown but we know that the lights and power grid are designed for indefinite use, in lighting and tile survey

and if theres the null zones, the sun, etc

Seriously. What happens if you set fire to the backrooms? Or are they just entirely made of material incapable of propagating fire?