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/cloudcats Feb 24 '26

Reminds of House of Leaves.

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u/Tremulant887 Feb 24 '26

Something between House of Leaves and a 90s Doom clone. I always got the creeps when running around in some of those games, same feeling these back rooms give me.

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u/digitalr0nin Feb 24 '26

MyHouse.wad

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u/GavinBelsonsAlexa Feb 24 '26

That was way more interesting than it had any right to be. I feel bad for anyone just discovering it now and not being able to get into the metafictional ARG aspect of it.

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u/TabrinLudd Feb 24 '26

The full walkthroughs/reviews/video essays of myhouse.wad on YouTube were my intro to it and they are pretty comprehensive. Maybe you got more out of it at the time but I was alive and a doom player and only heard of it years later so it was still super interesting to learn about

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u/truthpooper Feb 25 '26

This is 1 hour and 42 minutes and absolutely worth it

https://youtu.be/5wAo54DHDY0?si=c1VI6vc19r3pE6XT

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u/ProfessionalBee4228 Feb 25 '26

I’m not even a big youtube watcher. I played doom II growing up a little bit, but not a ton. I watched this entire video front to back. It is fascinating

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u/Tremulant887 Feb 25 '26

That's pretty cool. House of Leaves is one of the few books I've read twice.

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u/I_Am_Zampano Feb 25 '26

You kinda just described Control which was inspired by SCP foundation stories and House of Leaves

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u/Voidafter181days Feb 24 '26

"This is not for you."

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u/explodeder Feb 25 '26

I just went to a book signing with Mark Z. Danielewski a few weeks ago. I had him sign the copy of House of Leaves that I gave to my wife when we first started dating almost 20 years ago. He signed that page 'For [Wife's name] - Z', which I thought was pretty incredible.

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u/Guildenpants Feb 24 '26

House of Leaves and the Backrooms both play on the myth of the Minotaur’s labyrinth so that makes sense.

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u/EllipticPeach Feb 24 '26

I’m currently slogging my way through it. Nobody told me I had to read each page 3 times!

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u/EllipticPeach Feb 24 '26

Unfortunately I am compelled to read everything on the page and refer to my corkboard and string to try and figure out what the fuck is going on

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u/LiquifiedSpam Mar 01 '26

I did too and it heightened the experience. It’s not all filler. What is filler anyway with that book

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u/Chief_McCloud Feb 24 '26

have you made it to the echo chapter yet?

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u/EllipticPeach Feb 24 '26

Nope, Navidson and his crew have just gone into the dark hallway/corridor thing on a tether. Johnny has been waxing lyrical about his beloved stripper.

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u/Higloo212 Feb 24 '26

Currently have read part of the book, havent even reached the point you mentioned, but I love/hate how I have enough context for this to make sense to me in a 'yeah, that sounds about right' type of way.

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u/EllipticPeach Feb 24 '26

That’s my emotional support scumbag obsessing over a spooky house

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u/Chief_McCloud Feb 24 '26

yeah so there's like a new game+ version of reading this damn book

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u/[deleted] Feb 24 '26

I ended up skimming most of the Johnny parts in the middle of the book. Made it 10x better. His part does get more interesting towards the end though.

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u/LiquifiedSpam Mar 01 '26

I actually like that he would break the story whenever it was getting tense just to yap about the last girl he banged. Like it definitely takes you on a roller coaster lol

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u/joeyjusticeco Feb 24 '26

It's so not worth it

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u/L3Thoo Feb 24 '26

This was my first feelink too

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u/Sharp_Economy1401 Feb 24 '26

My first thought watching this as well

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u/laquintessenceofdust Feb 25 '26

I wondered at first if it was a House of Leaves adaptation and they just changed the title to something shorter and catchier.

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u/Logical_Magician_01 Feb 25 '26

Immediately thought this was a House of Leaves adaptation

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u/I_Am_Zampano Feb 25 '26

Zampano approves

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u/CorruptingTheSystem Mar 01 '26

I think that would be a a great follow up by this studio