He's just worried about the power bill. It costs a lot to heat and light an infinite number of rooms.

there are yellow suits, I can get lost, there is something else

Surely several of those infinite rooms contain large nuclear power plants providing at least some of the infinite power required ..

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

and null zones connect to different parts of the world, and the DoE and Async are already on it

also a major fire hazard

Open for business as a hotel and make infinite revenue.

Barbarian had a joke with landlord getting excited about such "additional square footage".

Honestly, perfect place for datacentres. Unlimited water in the pool area, electric sockets are likely live, unlimited space, no noise pollution, just have to put a data cable though the threshold.

I'm pretty sure the backrooms if they were real, they wouldn't be a horror thing, it would be full of people mapping it and living there. there would be a small organised millitia to neutralize dangerous stilllives. Plenty of hydroponic agriculture.

It would be interesting to see cities in the backrooms, where being there is just a normal thing... Nevermind, it already exists, it's called the Toronto Path

With infinite lawsuits

Didn't watch the movie, huh?

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

I whispered to my friends that Justin Long would have been ecstatic

Well, there was something similar: Kowloon Walled City

A truly fascinating place.

I guess the backrooms would be quite similar.

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.

thats Async's vision
ASpace

i think the randomly appearing and disapearing chairs and stuff might mean a datacenter would need a lot of maintenance

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.

Including the magic door annex, rent now comes to $∞.99 per month. Plus tax.

Genuine question: what's the verdict on the movie? I am very tempted to go watch Obsession for a second time, but am also wondering about checking this one out. Is it better or worse or equally good as Obsession?

Didn't watch obsession but backrooms is fun. Has a low-budget horror movie vibe which isnt really a bad thing. The horror itself isn't especially scary, but quite unsettling. The ending I thought was quite weak, it really obviously tries to set itself up for a sequel in quite an off-putting way

Haven't watched Obsession, but I loved the Backrooms. I've never seen my fiancé more horrified by a movie, and a friend that was with us had to step away for a bit.

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

There was also a lot more gore than I was expecting, because Kane typically keeps it light.

Easily one of my favorite movies this year.

there would be a small organised millitia to neutralize dangerous stilllives

Yes, but the still lifes aren't the only danger. There is still the time warps, instability of walls and flooring with the null zones, the bacteria.

And IMO contact with the backrooms clearly a induces a form of paranoid schizophrenia, as seen by some of Kane's work.

So it would be an inevitable disaster to use the backrooms for any useful purposes.

So is Backrooms an adaptation of House of Leaves?

Cause the premise seems very similar, and I'm wondering whether I should bother watching it/recommend HoL to people who liked it.

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

Fair enough, it's quite a bit of content to watch through

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.

Definitely some major similarities, but HoL has a lot more depth (no pun intended).

Obsession is literally lightyears better than backrooms

I saw obsession twice within a 24hr span, i saw backrooms and thought it was so ass

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

no, no, no, nO, NO, NO, NO, NO

I liked backrooms way more than obsession, it has some interesting themes, suspense and some unpredictability. For me obsession was just another default American horror movie where the characters make stupid decisions, but I guess they are both OK considering their budgets

Borges: infinite number of rooms you say?

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

Sounds like a great place to start your own storage facility.

Backrooms (the movie) is based on the backrooms(a collection of of internet fiction written by a lot of people in a shared setting with a shared premise), which was inspired by a lot of things because the concepts behind it were built up by a lot of people. House of Leaves probably had an influence because it’s decently well known but there is no direct relation. I’m sure if you dug through some forums, boards and subreddits you could find someone talking about a direct inspiration for a piece or two, but it’s not really a formalized set of works

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.

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.

It's fine unless they have weird names

no, but its inspired by it

its baeed on kanes backrooms, not the wiki one

its good

I've seen both, obsession and backrooms are incomparable. Obsession is a masterpiece of horror which really fucked me up. Backrooms is a fairly fun piece especially if you like the overall backrooms concept, nothing spectaculsr but if you have spare time it's worth a watch.

When it’s all you know…

I mean, people pine for living under awful dictators, too.

Easy just have each person move to the next room. What's that there's a bus with infinite^2 people on board no worries just send each person up stairs or down stairs depending on whether the see an up ramp of a down ramp first

backrooms is part of Kane's webseries
you'd likely not get it if you didnt watch the rest of it