Reviews of Backrooms

Backrooms has an unsettling premise, and there are moments where the atmosphere works, but it never sustained that tension for me. The empty spaces and strange surroundings are creepy at first, then gradually become repetitive. Too much of the movie feels like waiting for something more interesting to happen. I don’t mind a horror movie taking its time, but the buildup needs a satisfying payoff. Here, I found the atmosphere more effective than the story, and neither was enough to keep me invested throughout. A few eerie moments, but overall a disappointing use of a promising concept.

GenerationofSwineTMDB1.0 / 10

This is another problem with Hollywood, was it Reddit or Creepy Pasta that did it first? I know the Why Files did a decent job with it. They all told scary stories and left the end open.... so Hollywood saw that it was a fan favorite story and they turned it into a movie, but the story didn't have a clear ending, and Hollywood doesn't know how to write, so in the end you get a story that goes nowhere because it was based on an unresolved creepy conspiracy theory that didn't have a clear ending. I wouldn't have minded an ending of some kind, even if it was ambiguous or a cliff hanger. That would have been nice. And then the other failing. Listen Hollywood, if you're not going to try and scare us when you're making a horror movie, at least give us tits and gore like you used to. Watching people run through an endless maze with no resolution or point is less exciting than watching a hamster do it for a treat, at least the hamster gets a resolution. If you're not going to give us scares and plots then give us tits and carnage candy and turn it into a slasher.