Justin Chang
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1,638 appearances
51 recordings
2 series
first heard Nov 2024
last heard 2d ago
Justin Chang’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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In 2019, a photo posted on the message board 4chan gave rise to the creepy concept of the backrooms, an endless maze of what appeared to be abandoned corporate offices with beige carpets, yellow walls, and fluorescent lights.
The idea of being doomed to wander this mundane liminal space proved popular enough to inspire a horror meme and a web series directed by a teenager named Kane Parsons.
Now Parsons is 20, and his new Backrooms feature is the number one movie at the box office.
With more than $80 million so far, it's already made back its budget and then some.
It's an elegantly disorienting movie, with a number of riddles that, at least initially, it wisely avoids answering.
It's set in 1990 in the suburbs of Santa Clara Valley, California.
Chiwetel Ejiofor plays Clark, a middle-aged alcoholic with a failing furniture store business.
One night, in the basement of his store, he somehow walks through a wall and finds himself in the back rooms.
he wanders the space for hours and his mad curiosity stokes ours too who built this ugly labyrinth and why and what is the strange hulking creature he hears and sometimes sees clark returns to the back rooms day after day obsessively mapping out the different levels and marveling at the sometimes eccentric design choices and furnishings some of the chairs and shelves might have come from his store
At one point, he convinces his work assistant and her boyfriend to join him and film the place with a camcorder.
at which point the movie briefly becomes a spooky found-footage thriller in the style of that innovative 90s horror classic, The Blair Witch Project.
So, um, it's like, what, like an empty office building?
In here?
Sure.
But it's like it was made by a bunch of construction workers on acid.
There's even a pool.
Yeah.
Kind of.
Keep up.
Clark also talks about the back rooms to his therapist, Mary.
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