EVERYTHING MUST GO: Exploring New BACKROOMS Lore – A Review And Why The New Footage Is A MUST SEE

This weekend one of the summer's most surprising hits, Kane Parsons' BACKROOMS, received an “EVERYTHING MUST GO EDITION” that ups the film’s run time by almost 20 minutes. This is the first time that I can remember A24 re-issuing a film with extra footage since MIDSOMMAR got its director’s cut back in 2019. But this … Continue reading EVERYTHING MUST GO: Exploring New BACKROOMS Lore – A Review And Why The New Footage Is A MUST SEE

BACKROOMS: It’s Time For A New Kind of Haunted House – On Kane Parsons, Liminal Space and the Horror of the Uncanny

For entire generations, audiences have thought of a “haunted house” as a fairly singular idea: a creepy old house at the end of the street filled with musty old furniture and lots of dark spaces. Its paradigmatic representation has been cinematically cemented in classic and forgotten films alike, from THE HAUNTING OF HILL HOUSE to … Continue reading BACKROOMS: It’s Time For A New Kind of Haunted House – On Kane Parsons, Liminal Space and the Horror of the Uncanny