Backrooms review: Kane Parsons' feature debut is a potent sci-fi horror experiment in fear and perception
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Davide Abbatescianni
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A review of the sci-fi horror film "Backrooms," the feature debut of 20-year-old director Kane Parsons (known online as Kane Pixels). The film originated from a creepy 4chan image and has evolved into a theatrical release that explores fear through ordinary, unsettling spaces. The review praises the film as an unusually potent experiment in fear and perception, highlighting how Parsons transforms mundane objects and environments into sources of dread.
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Twitter / XBackrooms review: Kane Parsons' feature debut is a potent sci-fi horror experiment in fear and perceptionnewscientist.comKey quotes
· 3 pulledThere is something uniquely disturbing about a room that seems to have no reason to exist.
A shadow, a carpeted hallway, a buzzing fluorescent light: all become evidence that reality has lost its bearings.
Backrooms is an unusually potent big-screen experiment in fear and perception.
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