@notshoelxces As The Eel explains, the being "chose" him. He was restored with the direct purpose of getting the SM-8 blackbox to the rest of humanity so that more could discover the light.
@notshoelxces transported. The Eel explains in the movie that the eldritch being is looking through a peephole into our universe, trying to interpret what it sees and failing, leading to the universe warping to fit said interpretation.
Simon's restoration is just another example of that.
@WarlordTit10331@King_Garford of rotting corpses within the Complex itself.
Some speculate that it could be a result of the Complex not understanding how dead things work, hence this bacteria or rot was used to bring back things that it thought SHOULD be alive.
@WarlordTit10331@King_Garford The Lifeform, aka the lanky motherfucker from Backrooms #1 is a separate entity from the Still Life, who are replications of people and are the creatures that appear in the movie.
The Lifeform is seemingly an attempt to replicate bacteria, brought about by the amount-
@WarlordTit10331@King_Garford The series already set up the Lifeform to be an evolved or mutated form of bacteria though, and the series is still very much canonical.
@PlutoniumKing09@King_Garford I don't have any issues with it showing up in a sequel as long as it works for the narrative of that movie.
If it showed up here though it would've distracted from the main story and what it was trying to say.
The first one was the Still Life's movie, I'm glad it stayed that way.