Backrooms Watch A Long

Adam fell out of his chair, so, SUCCESS! I'm personally content with the ambiguous ending. It's the nature of the Backrooms, and there are plenty more stories left to tell. Incidentally, that recording in different languages was the welcome messages attached to the Voyager spacecraft. The English message in there is 'hello from the children of planet Earth.' I recognized it from the first episode of season 2 of The X-Files!

Okay last comment 😅 Mostly because my kid would kill me if I didn’t. Especially since she came down while I was mid-watch-along and was very excited. This set was built practically. It was 30,000 (33,000?) square feet. The cast and crew actually kept getting lost. The whole thing is a commentary on not only mental illness and grief, but also AI and how it is regressively copying itself into uncanny valley oblivion, removing all soul and true memory — and how some folks will embrace it vs eject it. It speaks to how we should embrace and address our individuality, but also are responsible for it. You aren’t at fault for your mental illness, but you are responsible for managing it. You are able to also control and direct that management and creativity into something real instead of a shallow copy of something else. And this kid who directed and created this is twenty years old. TWENTY.

I promise I won’t destroy this comment section with my entire diatribe (edit: I lied) but — Clark just went into the space and you asked how long it took the creator to come up with this shade of yellow… the answer is: however long Kane took! When he released the first Backrooms video, he was sixteen years old. He created the entirety of the Backrooms part himself in Blender, alone. He did some live action video with his buddies and then made the rest in blender. Everything on YouTube was done in blender or his own live action and practical effects. He did the music, the writing, he did the research on the time period to get everything just right to be the late ‘80s up to 1990. I highly suggest going to his channel and watching the full playlist of the videos that lead up to the movie. There is lore and it is super impactful after watching the movie. He did most of the writing on the movie and directed it, as well as produced it. He’s anti-AI and is avid on artistry and filmmaking. This kid is someone to watch out for. (Also lol you just made the Willy Wonka reference that we all also made)

This is my 18yo’s favorite movie. It’s very important to her. It’s also one that has become very important to me as a person whose brother lost himself to schizophrenia and who has struggled with depression and disassociation. It’s also just super duper amazing! The fact that this film was directed by a 20yo is also INCREDIBLE. My kiddo had me watch all of the YouTube videos after we came back from the film and I am SO impressed by Kane Parsons having started this at age 16. He is so very talented and I am looking forward to seeing where he goes from here! It’s clear this is getting a sequel and I am so fascinated to see where it moves forward in this lore. Haven’t started the actual watch along yet, but having just come off my second watch (we watched it as a family [18yo and husband and I, not littles] yesterday), I will say that you get a whoooole other layer when you see it a second time. Mentally and just in general from clues and elements in the background. So good

this movie definitely feels like a nightmare like when you watch it its intense but the minute its over I can't remember why I was ever scared but still that unease remains. Good job movie

I had my own "backrooms" experience like 15 years ago. I had to work nights at an elementery school for a summer while they updated the security system it took a few months working 12hrs a night and was creepy as hell.

I never knew about the comedy backroom reference. Really interesting. This movie was legit in the theater!

Yeah I agree that the ending didn't feel very conclusive. Really enjoyed the concept though and look forward to more.

loved it, and happy you guys got exactly what set this movie apart from obsession despite the comparisons people make. theyre both wonderful films, but they are so different i think they arent comparable. also! i believe kane parsons is going to release the extra bit of footage the 'everything must go' directors cut had for this on his channel soon, if you guys are interested!

This isn't gonna mean anything to anyone who isn't familiar with Kane's work, but I caught the "Reverchon" easter egg while rewatching this, and idk how they'd ever do it but I'd love to see The Oldest View get this kind of treatment, I've liked Kane's backrooms youtube stuff, but TOV is easily his best youtube thing imo.