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Episode 47: Backrooms
Backrooms is a horror film directed by Kane Parsons and written by Will Soodik. It is based on the web series created by Parsons in which individuals accidentally find themselves within the liminal backrooms, an infinite maze of familiar spaces laid out in increasingly illogical ways. It stars Chiwetel Ejiofor as Clark, a divorced furniture store owner who becomes trapped in the backrooms connected to his store's basement floor with his employee Kat, played by Lukita Maxwell, and her boyfriend Bobby, played by Finn Bennett. The film also stars Renate Reinsve as Dr.Mary Kline, Mark Duplass as Phil, and Robert Bobroczki as [spoiler].
Timestamps:
- (0:01:17) Slender Man
- (0:34:31) We're All Going to the World's Fair
- (0:53:46) Ringu
- (1:07:59) Backrooms
- (1:49:32) Spoilers
- (2:15:47) Next week: Scary Movie
Works Cited:
- Architecture: The Cult Following of Liminal Space–Musée Magazine (Karl Emil Koch, 2020)
- Backrooms (Kane Parsons, 2026)
- The Backrooms (Kane Pixel, 2019-2025)
- A Few Great Pumpkins X, Fourth Night: Ringu (Michael Koresky, 2015)
- How 'Backrooms' Blew The Doors Off The Box Office With $118M WW Opening, Best Ever For A24 (Anthony D'Allesandro, 2026)
- I Saw the TV Glow (Jane Schoenbrun, 2023)
- The Pleasant Head Trip of Liminal Spaces (Madelyne Xiao, 2021)
- Punch-Drunk Love Mattress Man Commercial
- Ringu (Hideo Nakata, 1998)
- The Ring (Gore Verbinski, 2002)
- A Self-Induced Hallucination (Jane Schoenbrun, 2018)
- Slender Man (Sylvain White, 2018)
- Slender Man Review: A Terrible Movie About the Internet's Best Monster (David Ehrlich, 2018)
- Unpainted Arizona
- We're All Going to the World's Fair (Jane Schoenbrun, 2021)
- When You Gaze Into the TV, the TV Also Gazes Into You (Ben Verschoor, 2024)
- Why I Spent Months Making An Archival Documentary about The Slenderman (Jane Schoenbrun, 2018)
Email us at [email protected]!
Find us elsewhere!
Ben Verschoor
- https://cinema-purgatorio.ghost.io/
- https://letterboxd.com/jamn4sure/
- @benverschoor.bsky.social
Steven Santana
- https://breakingarrows.ghost.io/
- https://letterboxd.com/number8axel/
- @number8axel.bsky.social
Opening music is "Root Beer Rag" by Billy Joel
Closing music is "G-Spot Tornado" by Frank Zappa
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By Ben Verschoor & Steven SantanaBackrooms is a horror film directed by Kane Parsons and written by Will Soodik. It is based on the web series created by Parsons in which individuals accidentally find themselves within the liminal backrooms, an infinite maze of familiar spaces laid out in increasingly illogical ways. It stars Chiwetel Ejiofor as Clark, a divorced furniture store owner who becomes trapped in the backrooms connected to his store's basement floor with his employee Kat, played by Lukita Maxwell, and her boyfriend Bobby, played by Finn Bennett. The film also stars Renate Reinsve as Dr.Mary Kline, Mark Duplass as Phil, and Robert Bobroczki as [spoiler].
Timestamps:
- (0:01:17) Slender Man
- (0:34:31) We're All Going to the World's Fair
- (0:53:46) Ringu
- (1:07:59) Backrooms
- (1:49:32) Spoilers
- (2:15:47) Next week: Scary Movie
Works Cited:
- Architecture: The Cult Following of Liminal Space–Musée Magazine (Karl Emil Koch, 2020)
- Backrooms (Kane Parsons, 2026)
- The Backrooms (Kane Pixel, 2019-2025)
- A Few Great Pumpkins X, Fourth Night: Ringu (Michael Koresky, 2015)
- How 'Backrooms' Blew The Doors Off The Box Office With $118M WW Opening, Best Ever For A24 (Anthony D'Allesandro, 2026)
- I Saw the TV Glow (Jane Schoenbrun, 2023)
- The Pleasant Head Trip of Liminal Spaces (Madelyne Xiao, 2021)
- Punch-Drunk Love Mattress Man Commercial
- Ringu (Hideo Nakata, 1998)
- The Ring (Gore Verbinski, 2002)
- A Self-Induced Hallucination (Jane Schoenbrun, 2018)
- Slender Man (Sylvain White, 2018)
- Slender Man Review: A Terrible Movie About the Internet's Best Monster (David Ehrlich, 2018)
- Unpainted Arizona
- We're All Going to the World's Fair (Jane Schoenbrun, 2021)
- When You Gaze Into the TV, the TV Also Gazes Into You (Ben Verschoor, 2024)
- Why I Spent Months Making An Archival Documentary about The Slenderman (Jane Schoenbrun, 2018)
Email us at [email protected]!
Find us elsewhere!
Ben Verschoor
- https://cinema-purgatorio.ghost.io/
- https://letterboxd.com/jamn4sure/
- @benverschoor.bsky.social
Steven Santana
- https://breakingarrows.ghost.io/
- https://letterboxd.com/number8axel/
- @number8axel.bsky.social
Opening music is "Root Beer Rag" by Billy Joel
Closing music is "G-Spot Tornado" by Frank Zappa
Subscribe, rate and review us!
- Apple Podcasts: Mise en Screen - Podcast - Apple Podcasts
- Spotify Podcasts: Mise en Screen | Podcast on Spotify
- Player.fm: Mise En Screen podcast
- Podcast Addict: Mise en Screen - Podcast Addict