Go watch The Backrooms.
if you hate the concept, go watch it anyway.
if you can't get into the hype, watch it anyway.
if you've ever felt like your life has ever stagnated, you can't progress - you can't quite make that leap into that stable vision of adulthood you've seen - watch it.
The Backrooms is a horror that encapsulates these times, uniquely, because we all live between the confines of day-to-day loops.
Kane Parsons, in Backrooms, captures an experience that speaks to us not just for an impossible scary experience of being lost in a never-ending maze, but showing us normal things, in an impossible excess
The Uncanny, as it were - not since Twin peaks anyway - has uniquely excelled in capturing the essence of how we, as young people turning into adults, finding our loops, finding our own versions of the mundane, settling into it, and wondering,
"Is this all there is to it?"
"Does this go on forever?"
"How far do I have to go until I see something else?"
As you go deeper, you are allured by the mystery, the subtle changes, the nostalgia of times past - "Do you remember when it was like this?" or "Do you remember when you felt like that?"
The Backrooms lures you into impossible spaces, faced by unknown threats that lie just behind the veil of mystery, and scenery or architecture that reminds you of distant, unpleasant things.
And yet, the ingredients for these localities, melded together into some absurd amalgamation, come from memories.
Memories, repeating memories, and repeated until they begin to meld into blurs, into incoherent shapes, and into the monstrous.
Yet, it's still made of things from your mind.
It's made of you.
It's made of home.
The Backrooms is stagnation, personified into a monster.
The Backrooms is the mundane, personified as a sickeningly excessive parody of itself; an organism that consumes your memories, regurgitates them, then consumes, and regurgitates, again and again and again.
The Backrooms is a hundred snapshots of your memories; the prints degrading, the names fading, and eventually, decaying into mere smears.
The Backrooms is the mundanity of post-2000s life, turned into a monster - the liminal horror that I think this generation has been waiting for.
Go watch The Backrooms.
One day, I hope pride will be irrelevant.
Because one day, we won't have to be remarkable, or celebrate our survival.
We'll just be part of society; normal, as it should be.
Not a spectacle. Just as mundane as everyone else.
As society continues to evolve through the years, as it always has, I'm sure we'll get there.
Until then, happy pride. 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️