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Backrooms is a runaway indie horror sensation, but it is also a fascinating smoothie of influences. In this episode, we're cataloguing every touchstone from Stranger Things and Skinamarink to Blair Witch and The Yellow Wallpaper in an effort to understand why this movie is so phenomenally effective. We also take a closer look at the relationship between set design and creature design, the art of subgenre crossovers, and restrained horror endings.

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00:00 Stranger Things 01:30 Skinamarink 03:13 As Above So Below & Hell House 08:37 Terror vs. Boredom 11:33 Genre Hopping 15:49 Iron Lung 16:41 Performances / Writing / Directing 19:26 Creature Design 23:20 Set Design (as Creature Design) 25:12 The Blair Witch Project 27:00 Paranormal Activity 29:49 Goldilocks Endings 32:43 The Yellow Wallpaper 34:27 Closing Thoughts