Rory Powers

Imagine you're walking through everyday life, when all of a sudden, you blink and you're inside of a room.

A simple room, with yellow walls, damp carpet, and buzzing fluorescent lights.

It looks like our world, but you can feel that something's wrong.

Beyond this room is another room, and another room.

It's an endless maze of liminal spaces, unsettling symbols, and maybe worst of all, you're not alone in there.

This is the space known as the Back Rooms.

The Back Rooms began as a simple horror image posted on an internet forum discussing photos of unsettling liminal spaces.

But over the years, it's captured the imagination of thousands.

Internet users have expanded on the lore of the Back Rooms, introducing the different levels, the story behind its origin, and maybe most terrifying of all, the entities that inhabit the space.

One of those internet creators was named Kane Parsons, and on his YouTube channel, he did the impossible.

He started making films inside the backrooms.

The place that shouldn't really exist.

Now, we have covered the backrooms on the podcast before, on episode 307,

But for those of you who are going to see the new A24 movie this week, we wanted to release a supercut of that episode filled with everything you need to know, from how it was created to why its existence is so terrifying.

You might even find out how to survive the backrooms, if by chance you end up there yourself.

Like, you know, sometimes like an airport or... You know, you say that, but there are a few places

Maybe not airports, but there's a few hotels I've been in before that definitely give off that strange, uncanny vibe.

Where it's just rows of identical rooms and carpet that goes on seemingly into the horizon.

Or you look out a window into a courtyard that's just surrounded by hotel walls.

It's all very artificial and just, yeah, something quite uncanny about it.