Search results for Liminal Horror

‘Exit 8’ and liminal space horror: A low-budget movie trend shaped by Gen Z’s most traumatic formative years

The scariest movie you see this year might be set in a liminal space.  While studios like Disney and Warner Bros. Discovery are gearing up to release big-budget blockbusters thi...

Welcome to the ‘Backrooms’: We’re Officially In the Liminal Horror Era

Matt Konopka looks at the rise of the liminal horror genre and how films like Exit 8 and Backrooms have solidified the era in a big way.

5 Horror Movies Where the Setting Feels Like a Liminal Space

With the recent trailer release of Backrooms, we thought we’d look at some other films that could live in a Backrooms-type space. These films feature a reality that seems like it l...

Backrooms Is the Best Nightmare You’ll Ever Have

Liminal spaces are excellent for horror, but it's even better when the liminal space IS the horror. The post <em>Backrooms</em> Is the Best Nightmare You’ll Ever Have a...

6 Liminal Movies You Should Watch If You Love 'Backrooms'

We've been covering Kane Parson's rise since the beginning, back when he was a teenager uploading found-footage horror to YouTube using free software and borrowed cameras. The scal...

From Horror to Healing: The Neuroscience of Liminal Spaces

Afraid of what comes next? Liminal spaces like the eerie "Backrooms" reveal how the brain handles uncertainty and navigates transition.

Eerie Liminal Spaces That Will Give You the Goosebumps

The Backrooms, and other horror concepts that collapse under the slightest scrutiny

HORROR movie The Backrooms is being praised by critics for its clever liminal concept, but will audiences agree? Here are more terrifying ideas that don’t stand up to much scrutiny...

Liminal Spaces: The Best Backrooms Games To Play Before You See The Movie

The Backrooms--the iconic, yellow, liminal corridors that feel designed by unnerving dream logic--have gone from the subject of a 2019 forum post to a major movie adaptation in jus...

Liminal Yellow Hues and Suburban Unease Define New ‘Backrooms’ Images

A24 has shared three new stills from Kane Parsons‘ liminal horror Backrooms, which is poised to have one of the […]

‘Backrooms’ – New Teaser Takes Audience Deeper Into the Liminal Space

A new teaser for A24's 'Backrooms' has been released, taking audiences deeper into the terrifying liminal space.

5 Horror Movies Where You’re Trapped in Someone Else’s Reality

Ever spent the night at someone’s house, and their morning routines are so different than yours, you feel out of place? For instance, on Saturday, you like to sleep in, but they li...

'Backrooms' goes from internet meme to the big screen

What evil lurks in the drabbest of interiors? The meme-rooted “Backrooms” is the latest movie to pull its mounting horrors out of liminal spaces. “Exit 8,” released earlier…

4 best horror books to read if you love The Backrooms

While liminal spaces thrive in visual mediums, novelists have had their own success

How A24’s ‘Backrooms’ recreates the internet’s creepiest liminal space

There’s a place that you’ve never actually set foot in, but your subconscious recognizes it. It’s a maze of hallways full of yellowed wallpaper, dingy cream carpet, and fluorescent...

Halfway Through 2026, These Hidden Horror Gems Deserve Your Attention

The spring release window does something unkind to horror. Everything not named after a legacy franchise or produced by a studio big enough to buy a Super Bowl ad gets sorted into...

Horror Beat: BACKROOMS is nearly here, and it’s being hyped by yet another clever promo campaign

Compelling Surreal Horror

The most compelling and surreal horror books have stories full of the grotesque, the strange, and the bizarre.

The Fear of the Unknown: How Horror and Financial Markets Both Thrive on Uncertainty

Fear is rarely about what we can see. In horror, the most effective moments are built on what remains hidden, something implied but not fully revealed. A shadow that lingers too lo...

Interactive Fear: Why Horror Works Better When You Play It

Horror has always known how to get under the skin. A strange noise in the next room. A figure standing just a second too long in the background. A silence that feels wrong. In film...

EXCLUSIVE: Backrooms director and cast break down turning a viral webseries into one of A24’s most unsettling horror fil...

Kane Parsons, Chiwetel Ejiofor, and Renate Reinsve break down how A24’s Backrooms turns the viral liminal horror series into a haunting psychological film about isolation, liminal...

Zangyou Is a Liminal Psychological Horror Where You’re Trapped in a Japanese Office Building

Inspired by The Backrooms The post Zangyou Is a Liminal Psychological Horror Where You’re Trapped in a Japanese Office Building appeared first on Gamezebo.

Queerness and Visibility in Body Horror

The queer community is no stranger to horror. Life as we know it horrifies. Scarcely a minute goes by without gruesome news flashing across our close-held screens, casting stark li...

“This Town Is the Monster”: 6 Horror Novels Where the Setting Itself Is Evil

Everybody loves a haunted house story: The Haunting of Hill House, The Turn of the Screw, House of Leaves. But the haunted house story is only one example of a much vaster, darker...