Comment by pavel_lishin
3 months ago
I'm not sure if it's even meant to be scary. I think of the Backrooms as closer to the world of Piranesi, or the project that took a bunch of virtual-tours of apartments for rent, and aggregrated them all into a single mega-building.
The Backrooms and Skinamarink are both classified as horror.
The movies, sure, but the Backrooms as a concept (and by extension liminal spaces in general) are not necessarily horror.
I don't find them "scary" but I do find them disconcerting.
Backrooms started from a photo of a liminal space but was introduced from a creepypasta and a thread on a paranormal board, it's always been horror adjacent.
> God save you if you hear something wandering around nearby, because it sure as hell has heard you