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Liminal Horror Is the Only Subgenre That Actually Gets Worse the More You Think About It

Congratulations. You’ve just remembered that hallways exist. That’s liminal horror in a nutshell. It doesn’t need a monster. It doesn’t need a jump scare. It doesn’t need a single...

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.

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...

Loved ‘Backrooms’? Try These 10 Liminal Horror Films!

Kane Parsons’ Backrooms has pushed liminal horror into the mainstream, but there are many other impressive examples out there to […]

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...

‘Backrooms’ is horror for a self-justifying age

“Backrooms” came out of internet lore to take down “The Mandalorian.” Perhaps audiences are turning on Disney. The film is now a smash hit theatrical release, but its story began o...

More Movies That Feature Liminal Spaces

From residential developments suspended in empty suburban sprawl to surreal, dreamcore callbacks to childhood, lose yourself in the most unsettling liminal spaces featured on film....

Eerie Liminal Spaces That Will Give You the Goosebumps

Eerily nostalgic liminal spaces become destinations in Korea's crowdsourced 'Backrooms Map'

Horror movie "Backrooms" opened in Korea May 27, drawing in nearly 400,000 admissions in its opening week and quickly rising to the No. 2 spot in the box office amid heavy competit...

Obsession/Backrooms: The Horror of Ideas Instead of Monsters

For decades, horror films relied on familiar threats. Audiences expected haunted houses, serial killers, supernatural entities, or creatures lurking in The post Obsession/Backrooms...

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...

5 Upcoming Movies That Could Be the Next ‘Obsession’ or ‘Backrooms’: Horror’s New Wave Is Coming for Your Sleep

The cultural moment that ‘Backrooms’ created has made one thing unmistakably clear: audiences are hungry for horror with atmosphere, mythology, and the kind of slow dread that ling...

The Door Was Never Just a Door: The Folklore Behind Horror’s Most Dangerous Thresholds

Horror trained us to fear the wrong parts of the house. We learned to dread the basement, the attic, the hallway with one working bulb, the door at the end that stays shut for a re...

6 Design Tricks That Make a Space Feel Like the Backrooms

I don’t know about you, but this weekend I’ll be celebrating the Fourth of July with the Backrooms extended rerelease in theaters. Backrooms: Everything Must Go Edition adds 15 min...

Backrooms and Liminal Spaces

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Backrooms: The unsettling reason this horror film resonates with so many people right now

The film is an adaptation of a popular internet horror concept and urban legend

From ‘Slender Man’ to the ‘Backrooms’, Internet Horror Has Come a Long Way

Gen Z and millennial filmmakers are using creepypastas and internet lore as inspiration for the next wave of horror storytelling.

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...

Horror Beat: BACKROOMS bores and astounds in equal measure

Unseen Liminality Walkthrough

Unseen Liminality is an unusual bit of Roblox horror, in that it actually got me once or twice. I’ve put some hours into this Kane Pixels’ Backrooms-themed horror title recently, a...

Sci-fi horror film Backrooms is a triumph for its 20-year-old director

With its origins in a creepy image posted on 4chan, Backrooms is an unusually potent big-screen experiment in fear and perception, says Davide Abbatescianni

15 Horror Movies Where the ‘Scare’ Hits a Little Too Close to Home

Stories of ghosts, demons, and all kinds of supernatural horrors have their own sense of dread. When used well, they are incredibly effective, although we can always take comfort i...

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...