A24 is adapting the recent liminal spaces backrooms trend to which Skinimark is indebted into a feature length titled, well, The Backrooms. Liminal spaces and analog horror are fun enough late at night, headphones on, bowl a-blazing, but so far translating online horror trends and shorts to the big screen are lacking, looking at Slender Man/Marble Hornets and Lights Out specifically. I often wonder how many projects in development are directly inspired by SCP Foundation Series. I bet tons.

rsmurphy wrote: Mon Feb 06, 2023 1:07 pm A24 is adapting the recent liminal spaces backrooms trend to which Skinimark is indebted into a feature length titled, well, The Backrooms.

As depressing, and predictable a sentence as you could ever read.

A_Man_Who_Tries wrote: Mon Feb 06, 2023 3:30 pm As depressing,and predictable a sentence as you could ever read.

IDK...in the right hands this whole backroom/liminal space trend can be expanded into larger themes, and if any company could do it I'd rather it be A24 than Blumhouse. The idea of existing in a space that hasn't or had already materialized but is vanishing is pretty cool (and already explored by Stephen King in The Langoliers if I'm keeping it real).

What has been will be again, just with different producers.

I had to travel almost fifteen miles to watch The Outwaters due to its limited theatrical release, and as a fan of the much maligned found footage genre I'm happy I did. If you find found footage annoying you're going to hate it. The first half is fairly rote but it looks nice, good cinematography, bright and sunny; but by the third act the viewer is immersed in almost total darkness with nothing but the sounds of a cosmic hell to work your imagination. It also gets pretty gruesome. I'm not doing a great job of describing it, but will say that I felt more uneasy on my way home than in the theater. Big ups for sound design and the slithering Lovecraftian invertebrates.

Re-watched Barbarian because it has subtly been calling to me, and just no. Great set-up but the rest leans too much on dumb decisions and falls inside of massive plot holes. I do not like it. Loved the humor tho! Shut it off with something like ten minutes remaining. Maybe 5.

Smile > Barbarian

I just watched The Offering. Interesting to see a Kabbalah-themed horror.

Enys Men (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt11698800/)

Being put out by Neon, looks to be a bit of throwback of English folk horror. I am always interested in films actually shot on 16mm.

Owen wrote: Thu Feb 16, 2023 10:34 am Enys Men (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt11698800/)

Being put out by Neon, looks to be a bit of throwback of English folk horror. I am always interested in films actually shot on 16mm.

Saw this a while back and enjoyed it.

Krev wrote: Tue Feb 14, 2023 8:53 pm I just watched The Offering. Interesting to see a Kabbalah-themed horror.

Shame that it had to rely on a wave of jump scares instead of coasting on the creep factor it uses when not repeatedly shouting "boo" at you. I liked The Vigil a bit more, but not by much. Semi-related there's a Polish horror film from 2015 called Demon which deals with a dybbuk. Way different in tone and scares, but enjoyable and funny.

Demon was GREAT.

Not sure if they've been mentioned in this thread already, but Kill List (2011), the complete filmography of Jean Rollin, and November (2017) are all worth checking out imo.