Grildon Tundy
Member
IMDB has a "Parents Guide" page for movies. Here's the one for Backrooms:
Sex & Nudity:
None- Violence & Gore:
Moderate - Profanity:
Moderate - Alcohol, Drugs & Smoking:
Mild - Frightening & Intense Scenes:
Severe
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Fbh
Gold Member
Yeah I feel the same.
I remember everyone hyping up Weapons last year and I found it very mid. The first half was a bit more interesting, but the second one and the reveal of the mystery was pretty bad IMO. Talk to me was pretty bad too IMO, but I did like Bring Her Back
poodaddy
Gold Member
Saw this with my wife and daughter yesterday.
How to start....well, I'm gonna be honest and say I fell asleep four times in the theater. I'm not saying that makes it a bad film, but it is absolutely boring as fuck....that being said, I was tired yesterday, so take that with a grain of salt. Things don't move at a clip, and like most modern films, the editors were clearly on vacation as there's about thirty minutes of film that needed to be left on the cutting room floor and had absolutely no business making it to the theatrical cut. I don't know why modern directors think all photography should make it to the final cut, but I digress.
Speaking of the photography, let's touch on that. In a film as thin on plot as this, cinematography and set design has to take up the reigns, and boy do they succeed here. Brilliantly framed shots throughout, and the set design was an absolute marvel of minimalism, and quite a lot was done with quite little here. Fantastic practical effects throughout, blessedly light on cg of any sort, and the minimalist score worked to the film's advantage I think.
Acting was excellent across the board except for the Asian actress and the white guy playing the store employees; they were mediocre but, thankfully, are quickly dispatched and have no relevance beyond their initial introductions and one scene thereafter.
Plot, if you can say there is one, is absolute nonsense of the lowest order and not even worth discussing. This post probably has more thought put into it than the film's scenario and writing, it's that awful.
In summary, this gets a strong 3/5 from me. I've never partaken of the source material, so I'm rating it purely as a standalone film, and I think a 3 is a good score, (I believe in using the entire rating scale), and I absolutely think this is worth a watch.....at home.....with a cup of coffee....and perhaps a remote around in case you need to fast forward through some of the absolute tosh that the director decided to keep in. This is wasted in theaters completely, do not see it in theaters folks.
For what it's worth, my daughter loves all that meme crap and plays the backrooms games and all that with her friends, and she gave it a 4.5/5, so if you're into that source material, it does seem to elevate the experience.
How to start....well, I'm gonna be honest and say I fell asleep four times in the theater. I'm not saying that makes it a bad film, but it is absolutely boring as fuck....that being said, I was tired yesterday, so take that with a grain of salt. Things don't move at a clip, and like most modern films, the editors were clearly on vacation as there's about thirty minutes of film that needed to be left on the cutting room floor and had absolutely no business making it to the theatrical cut. I don't know why modern directors think all photography should make it to the final cut, but I digress.
Speaking of the photography, let's touch on that. In a film as thin on plot as this, cinematography and set design has to take up the reigns, and boy do they succeed here. Brilliantly framed shots throughout, and the set design was an absolute marvel of minimalism, and quite a lot was done with quite little here. Fantastic practical effects throughout, blessedly light on cg of any sort, and the minimalist score worked to the film's advantage I think.
Acting was excellent across the board except for the Asian actress and the white guy playing the store employees; they were mediocre but, thankfully, are quickly dispatched and have no relevance beyond their initial introductions and one scene thereafter.
Plot, if you can say there is one, is absolute nonsense of the lowest order and not even worth discussing. This post probably has more thought put into it than the film's scenario and writing, it's that awful.
In summary, this gets a strong 3/5 from me. I've never partaken of the source material, so I'm rating it purely as a standalone film, and I think a 3 is a good score, (I believe in using the entire rating scale), and I absolutely think this is worth a watch.....at home.....with a cup of coffee....and perhaps a remote around in case you need to fast forward through some of the absolute tosh that the director decided to keep in. This is wasted in theaters completely, do not see it in theaters folks.
For what it's worth, my daughter loves all that meme crap and plays the backrooms games and all that with her friends, and she gave it a 4.5/5, so if you're into that source material, it does seem to elevate the experience.
poodaddy
Gold Member
If you'll excuse the spoiler.....
A guy gets his shoulder bitten deeply into by a massive practical effects monster version of himself, (played by a Romanian basketball player wearing a mask), and screams in agony and is then slammed against a wall and table until he dies. It is a brutal kill by any metric. Scared my fourteen year old daughter pretty good, and she loves horror stuff, for what that's worth.
If that's not a big deal, then you're good to go as that's the most violent bit.
Robot Carnival
Member
just came out of the theater after finishing this. as someone who has seen all the YouTube version of Kane Parsons Backrooms, I'm very happy with this movie. is it perfect? absolutely not. but it's a great extension of Parson's creation and it gave both a good taste of things for folks who are new to this series and enough goodies for those who are already familiar with the source material to be happy. it captured that unsettling but not quite horror yet feeling very well and I love that about it. with the way it ended, I hope the box office is good enough so they can make a sequel or another entry into this.
Reizo Ryuu
Member
it was alright