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Liminal spaces are blowing up.<\/p>\n

Backrooms<\/em><\/span>, indie film company A24\u2019s latest horror release, has been setting all kinds of records this week. Its US$118 million at the worldwide box office on its opening weekend saw it become A24\u2019s biggest hit ever, while director Kane Parsons became the youngest-ever filmmaker to have a film hit number one at the US box office, at just 20 years old.<\/div>\n

Costing just US$10 million to make, Backrooms<\/em> is undoubtedly in a race with the also recently released Obsession<\/em> to be the most profitable scary movie of the year. Yet its success is arguably no surprise.<\/p>\n

In the film, Chiwetel Ejiofor plays Clark, a failed architect who now runs a struggling furniture store. In the store\u2019s basement, he discovers a portal into a labyrinth of empty, eerie spaces.<\/p>\n

With walls coloured sickly yellow and illuminated by flickering fluorescent lights, it is the perfect playground for horror \u2013 a never-ending industrial nightmare. Or as Clark ominously says, \u201cIt\u2019s every place that ever was.\u201d<\/p>\n

Inspired by Parsons\u2019 short film series The Backrooms<\/em>, which first appeared on YouTube in 2022 under his moniker Kane Pixels, this feature adaptation is the latest \u2013 and most high-profile \u2013 in pop culture\u2019s growing obsession with the liminal space.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n


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