✅ It is, one could quip, a movie made of badly remembered horror tropes.
✅ The furniture store’s lived-in make-believe showroom provides the most unsettling half-reality to start with.
✅ It’s the backrooms of the mind where the horrors live, an infinite hellscape that is also a real space akin to Tarkovsky’s zone.
Exploring The Stanley Parable’s (back)rooms already freaked me out, and the movie’s terrific audiovisual design hits the spot.
Backrooms by Kane Parsons, 2026.
Watched at the Bambi theater on July 6, 2026, in its original language.