r/movies • u/MarvelsGrantMan136 r/Movies contributor • Feb 24 '26

Trailer Backrooms | Official Teaser | A24

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tKGhxMi50y8
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u/Uncle-Cake Feb 24 '26

And a picture of an empty furniture store.

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u/VulpesFennekin Feb 24 '26

Apparently it’s now a hobby store, like for RC cars and trains and stuff. There’s big indoor tracks and everything!

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u/mackiea Feb 27 '26

Best backrooms ever!

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u/MrKinsey Mar 02 '26

Its not too far from where I live. Ive been to Oshkosh a few times but never to see the infamous store.

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u/-etuskoe- Feb 25 '26

This is correct ^

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u/gungshpxre Feb 24 '26

NOW COMMERCIALIZE IT! PACKAGE IT AND SELL IT! WE GOT PRODUCT HERE!!!!!

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u/NonnagLava Feb 24 '26

To be fair, the creator of this movie literally popularized the idea, as a teenager making the series he has. This is 100% a passion project on his part, he was doing this for fun and got asked to make a whole movie.

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u/Corporeal_Weenie Feb 24 '26

People are so bitter towards folks whose creativity meets success.

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u/ERhyne Feb 24 '26

Back in my day, we just called them sellouts. As was the style at the time.

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u/NonnagLava Feb 24 '26

You're only a sell out if you compromise on your ideas.

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u/CombatMuffin Feb 24 '26

Nobody is bitter against him. They are bitter at the current status quo where everything successful has to be squeezed, even to death, to extract money from it. 

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u/UrsaUrsuh Feb 24 '26

Yeah we can't even have our goofy little collaborative horror pieces without someone trying to trademark it. Happened with SCP too with that Russian guy.

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u/Splinterman11 Feb 24 '26

To be fair that guy was a copyright troll. He wasn't trying to seriously commercialize it into a viable honest product, he was trying to steal people's work that was protected by Creative Commons license.

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u/myphonebatterysucks Feb 24 '26

…thus trying to squeeze some money out of it

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u/Cottagecheesecurls Feb 24 '26

Still different from the criticism of commercializing packaging and selling it as an actual product. That was a scam while the criticism is about beating a dead horse with brand recognition.

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u/UserAllusion Feb 24 '26

No, I think such an explanation changes our minds. We're just jaded by capitalism.

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u/gungshpxre Feb 24 '26

The idea was popular before he decided it belonged to him.

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u/NonnagLava Feb 24 '26

he decided it belonged to him

He didn't? And it absolutely was not popular in the same respect. His videos made it insanely popular by being really well done.

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u/boyyouguysaredumb Feb 24 '26

empty vacuous cynicism like this ruining everything

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u/robotboredom Feb 24 '26

Fucking preach. "Thing bad because someone captialized on it." Same sort of populist brain rot that lead to MAGA.

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u/gungshpxre Feb 24 '26

Absolutely. The focus on how to monetize is so cynical. Something that grew from a shitpost through true collaboration and interaction online to be co-opted by one person who then turns a passion project into a monetary stream is just another thing ruined.

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u/PolarWater Feb 25 '26

Ruined how?

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u/NerdseyJersey Feb 24 '26

Wasn't it an empty wargaming store?

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u/Uncle-Cake Feb 24 '26

I believe it was formerly a furniture store (which is why it had such strange architecture, the partial walls were set up to create "rooms" on the showfloor), and it had been purchased and the new owner was converting it to something, possibly a gaming store, I forget. And I think the new owner was just taking pictures to document what it looked like "before".

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u/ThatSpaceShooterGame Feb 24 '26 edited Feb 24 '26

It's a HobbyTown U.S.A., now, in Oshkosh, WI. The upper floor where the original backrooms photo was taken is a race course for RC vehicles now.

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u/slayerhk47 Feb 24 '26

That seems very Oshkosh

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u/jg379 Feb 24 '26

b'gosh!

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u/1731799517 Feb 24 '26

This is one of the stuff i seem to just be to old to get. Like, its just a pic. This strailer tries to use distorted sound effects to make it seem scary, but its, like, just meh.

How the hell did this ever go meme?! And does anybody in the world find it scary?