Film Review – Backrooms

“Backrooms” originated on the internet, with a young fanbase taking a simple photo of an empty commercial space and expanding it into a whole universe of “creepypasta.” Filmmaker Kane Parsons managed to popularize it, exploring the dead zone through multiple YouTube videos which amassed a large viewership. Parsons graduates to big screen moviemaking with a new pass at his original online creation, with “Backrooms” giving the helmer a budget and actors to figure out how to restart the engine of the concept, which now has studio backing. There’s a striking visual world to explore in the film, as Parsons gets imaginative when generating a claustrophobic realm of mazes and monsters. Storytelling isn’t quite as compelling in the offering, which revels in enigmatic developments without inviting viewers to help piece together what becomes a not too terribly interesting puzzle of madness and trauma. Read the rest at Blu-ray.com