Never Ending Movie Carnival
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Backrooms review: Menacingly Metaphorical and Ominously Obscure!
By the time the film ended, I was conflicted with a barrage of questions I accumulated through its runtime – you must be wondering why I am writing about its end at the start. Well, its allegorical. Backrooms is fashioned as an unending and bizarre odyssey – much like the mysterious dimensions that Clark (Chiwitel Ejifor) plunges himself into, beyond reality.
Director Kane Parsons, expands his own found footage You tube horror series into a feature him that also stars Norwegian actress Renate Reinsve as Clark’s shrink who tries to help him from the metaphorical darkness in the extra-dimensional liminal spaces of the large, interconnected spaces.
Backrooms raises several questions – about reality and vs fantasy, the symbolism of the monsters and also on the veracity of the shadowy corporate, the Async researchers. Despite the baffling nature of its narrative, it keeps you intrigued with a supremely gripping performance of Chiwitel. The first hour of the film solely belongs to him. He holds you in a solo-act scene that lasts for several minutes.
It’s certainly not everybody’s piece of cake, but the film is commendable for its inventive plot, tense atmospherics in the labyrinthine spaces and sound design, and spawns a new breed of content creators turned filmmakers helming the horror genre.
Rating: 3.5 stars out of 5
Ahwaan Padhee, is an IT Techie/Business Consultant by profession and a film critic/cinephile by passion, is also associated with Radio Playback as well, loves writing and conducting movie quizzes. More By Ahwaan Padhee