Chris Ryan

I think that...

Parsons seems to be the culmination of a shared aesthetic across multiple platforms across, but we're going to talk a lot about his influences.

And Barker seems to be a little bit more like, I found not the loophole or cheat code, but I am a product of this new way of distributing your work that allowed me to get like a foothold in traditional Hollywood.

Well, and while we're coming out of a period of time where I think the cost of making a movie has become almost crippling to the movie industry, these guys are kind of going back to the OG, you can make something fast and cheap that looks good, and a lot of people want to go see it.

That's not a barrier of entry.

What do you think about the fact that horror seems to be the primary genre on ramp for them, though?

I'm not concerned trolling.

I didn't see the Micah Monroe one, but I saw the other two.

It's a film that, if you're conversant in the actual project, has been spoiled already on YouTube.

Like five years ago, six years ago?

Chris, what did you think of this movie?

It's just thrilling.

It's like a really exciting time to be at the ground floor for this director.

And to see it realized, I mean, I was aware of and had watched some of Backrooms on YouTube, and I was aware that Backrooms is a concept of something that had sort of organically grown out of Creepypasta and Reddit, and that it was in some ways closer to folk art than it is...

a single author statement to see him make something so assured that so perfectly distills some of the liminal horror, some of the sort of modern urban legend or folk horror ideas.

and blow it out on this level.

And just on a personal level, I just find watching this stuff to be like taking a floor buffer to my brain.

And I would honestly watch like nine hours of this.

I've watched nine hours of slow tracking shots through these rooms.

So it was deeply pleasurable.