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Don't noclip into this movie without doing your homework first! Join us as we break down the essential facts you need to know before seeing the Backrooms film, from its wild 4chan origins to Kane Parsons' incredible rise as A24's youngest-ever director, plus everything in between about liminal spaces, terrifying Entities, and the surprising emotional plot!
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00:01what did you find
00:05the place welcome to watch mojo and today we're examining the 10 essential facts concerning
00:11back rooms to keep in mind ahead of the film's release look i know how this sounds but you
00:16gotta understand it's massive in there number 10 it all started on 4chan i found something
00:26in the store okay what did you find believe it or not this entire thing was born in a darker
00:34corner
00:35of the internet back in may 2019 a user on 4chan's paranormal-based x board changed internet history
00:43forever with just a simple photo and a fun made-up story the picture showed a windowless room with
00:49dingy yellow wallpaper blinding fluorescent lights and zero furniture or decorations all these places
00:56and uh buildings rooms misremembering themselves accompanied was a chilling little paragraph
01:04about the back rooms a place of endless empty hallways that exists out of place and time
01:10it wasn't real obviously it wasn't a marketing stunt and it certainly wasn't cooked up by hollywood
01:17it was just a silly bit of fun that sparked the imaginations of millions proving that all you
01:22really need sometimes is an original idea clock number nine the glitch of no clipping all right
01:35uh that was good i'm thinking we get a wide angle and then we're done all right yeah cool like
01:39how
01:39much further like a little more a little more you got yeah yeah
01:47if you're wondering exactly how someone ends up trapped in this endless maze of yellow wallpaper and
01:52office carpeting the answer lies in video game logic gamers are well acquainted with no clipping which
01:59is a frustrating glitch where your character suddenly falls through the solid floor or walks through the
02:04wall usually resulting in an eerie visual of being outside the game world the back room's lore
02:10ingeniously adopts this digital concept and applies it to the real world that's what i'm trying to figure out
02:23keep up it only gets better according to the mythos if you step the wrong way lean against a
02:30compromised wall or simply experience a random glitch in the fabric of reality you'll no clip out of
02:36bounds one second you're just walking down the street and the next you've slipped through the
02:41cracks of existence into the back rooms so what you want to do is you want to find yourself a
02:46nice solid
02:46wall like this one and you just got to come at it from the right angle i think let's go
02:52for it
02:52oh and we are in the back rooms very exciting stuff number eight the horror of liminal spaces
03:11don't expect traditional scares in this flick the true terror of the back rooms relies heavily on the
03:17aesthetic of liminal space these are usually everyday areas that seem just a little bit
03:22off usually because they're devoid of life think abandoned shopping malls long hotel hallways or empty
03:29highways at 3am i don't know why we do this they never seem to come when we're waiting to bash
03:35their
03:35brains out with a pig it's futile yeah they are places meant for moving not for staying so the horror
03:45here
03:45will be purely psychological mostly more on that in a second by taking these familiar environments
03:52and presenting them as unnaturally empty quiet and sprawling it triggers a profound sense of dread
03:58it's that uneasy feeling in your gut telling you that something is wrong even though you don't know
04:03what it is good morning macro data refinement hi mr milchek mark could i have a word number seven
04:12the wiki lore explored infinite levels
04:26while the original 4chan post was fun enough the internet took the idea and ran with it
04:32over the years dedicated fans on subreddits and massive wiki pages built a sprawling universe
04:39featuring thousands of distinct levels think of it as an infinite elevator ride these floors range from
04:45the dark concrete industrial basements of level one to seemingly endless indoor swimming pools and even
04:52entire abandoned cities each level comes complete with its own specific environmental hazards survival
04:59difficulties and unwritten rules while the movie probably won't be exploring all 6 000 fan-made floors
05:06knowing that the fandom expanded this universe into a multi-layered purgatory gives you a real
05:11appreciation for its scale and sense of collaboration
05:22number six the frightening entities
05:25all right so i'm a guy in the back rooms with a hazmat suit and i'm about to show how
05:31we capture
05:31smilers we told you it would be mostly psychological well this is why in the very beginning the terror of
05:39the
05:39back rooms focused almost entirely on the weirdness that said its final line does hint at something
05:45dangerous being in the back rooms with you as the wikis expanded so too did this idea of the something
05:52enter the entities
06:04these are a series of creepy monsters that hunt the wanderers who are unfortunate enough to no clip
06:09the internet lore is packed with horrifying creatures from the smilers that lurk in the pitch black with
06:15their glowing teeth to the party goers the smart creatures that trick their victims into joining their
06:21gruesome celebrations it's unclear how much the film will lean into the monster angle but expect at
06:27least a little something
06:35number five kane pixels hello
06:42hey guys
06:47what is this
06:48this isn't just any movie banking on a fun internet phenomenon this has some serious talent and passion
06:54behind it on january 7 2022 kane parsons uploaded a video called the back rooms found footage on his
07:01youtube channel kane pixels the 16 year old high school student loved the idea of the back rooms and
07:08started messing around on blender and adobe after effects to create a short film
07:12okay okay
07:18what the hell his passion project was so masterfully executed that it racked up insane views completely
07:26revitalized the creepypasta and even caught the eye of hollywood heavyweights a24 got in touch and asked
07:33him to make a movie and by agreeing parsons became the youngest feature director in a24's prestigious
07:40history being just 17 when the project was announced he ended up directing the movie during
07:45his summer vacation yeah i've been using blender for a few years the 3d program what would it be like
07:50to actually move the camera around in that space and actually investigate it a little bit more and
07:55it wasn't designed i didn't even know if it was gonna be a short film at first it was kind
07:57of just
07:57almost like a the very first shot was an isolated vfx test but it was very much coming from a
08:02place
08:02of just like scratching the itch of why the does this picture make my brain feel so strange why does
08:08it feel like a place that i've been in before number four the cane pixels lore
08:26if you're a hardcore fan of the wikis you'll probably want to adjust your expectations
08:32cane pixels basically introduced his own streamlined canon and ignored all the extra fluff
08:37and that seems to be what a24 is leaning into instead of a natural dimension with thousands of
08:43levels and factions cane's lore takes a more sci-fi approach
09:01in this universe a shadowy research company called async opened a portal to the back rooms
09:07which they call the complex on october 17 1989 the focus remains tightly on the original yellow maze
09:15and its architectural anomalies rather than a whole encyclopedia of monsters or a dictionary full of
09:21lore don't expect smilers or party goers in the film because they ain't gonna be here
09:26i don't know where the back rooms picture was taken
09:41number three the real world location was finally found my conclusion was that it was probably a
09:47furniture store but i couldn't say that for sure because we still didn't know where the back room's
09:52picture was taken but now we found it that's right this isn't clickbait we actually found the
09:59back rooms photo this time for years the origin of that iconic 4chan photograph was the holy grail of
10:05internet mysteries it felt like a cursed image that just spawned out of nowhere but never underestimate
10:11the power of highly motivated internet sleuths and there was another photo on the webpage where the
10:16back room's photo came from this is the first alternate view we've ever gotten of this room in
10:222024 a discord community finally tracked down the real world location of level zero it turns out the
10:29picture wasn't an elaborate 3d render or a secret government facility it was a hobby town in oshkosh wisconsin
10:37the snapshot was taken all the way back in 2002 when the second story was being renovated to make an
10:43rc
10:44race track funnily enough the movie seems to be honoring this piece of history as it takes place
10:50inside an empty furniture store i found something in the store okay number two the surprising plot of the
11:02824 movie hello you might be wondering how you turn an endless walking simulator into a compelling
11:14two-hour movie well it's not just about someone wandering aimlessly until they go crazy the 824
11:21film anchors the wild lore with a deeply human and emotional core starring incredible talents like
11:27chiwetel ejiofor and renata reintseva the plot actually follows a dedicated therapist whose
11:33patient mysteriously vanishes into this liminal dimension i'm not saying i don't believe you
11:39okay i'm gonna come back here with proof driven by guilt and duty she is forced to plunge into the
11:45unknown herself to save him it's a brilliant way to add stakes and a firm narrative drive to a concept
11:51that is normally just about pure atmosphere blending fun sci-fi mystery with a tense rescue mission
11:57all these rooms this place builds them
12:03it's like a maze it just goes on and on
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12:35storytelling i don't understand what is this
12:43let's just talk about the sheer cultural significance of this release
12:47the backrooms movie represents a landmark moment in modern entertainment produced by
12:52legendary horror veterans like james wan and sean levy and impressively financed for under 10 million
12:58dollars it's a huge victory for grassroots creativity can anybody hear me hello
13:12this release proves to hollywood that bottom-up crowdsourced internet lore can absolutely be taken
13:18seriously as high concept cinema it's the ultimate cinderella story for the digital age demonstrating how
13:24a teenager with a laptop a viral video and a weird little creepypasta from a message board can quite
13:30literally take over the world if this movie is a hit the internet and all its crazy stories will be
13:36considered fair game for the big screen treatment i very cautiously sort of developed this project over
13:42a number of years and until we have now this more human first sort of character driven intimate version
13:48of that world do you plan on seeing the movie or are you just a fan of the lore let
13:53us know in the comments
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