Sometimes you can find
yourself in one of those shops whose dimensions appear to exceed the space the
building occupies. I’ve been in one or two such places and as you start to move
away from the hubbub of the entrance, browsing can become a solitary occupation
with no other customers around. The further you go, the stranger it can seem.
It is this sensation, magnified many times, that Backrooms creates
finding scares in such seemingly regular things as walls, rooms, doors and even
open space. The debut feature of twenty year old Kane Parsons is an impressively
unsettling movie to sit through, one that will make you think twice about
roaming off on your own. Like last year’s Weapons it creates an edgy
mood that makes the everyday terrifying.
