Stephen Thompson
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Podcast Appearances
So in Back Rooms, Chiwetel Ejiofor plays the manager of a pirate-themed discount furniture store called Cap'n Clark's Ottoman Empire.
As he discusses with his therapist, played by Renata Reinsve, his life is falling apart.
He's getting a divorce, he drinks too much, and he's carrying around the massive weight of ambient stress.
And to make matters worse, while living in the store, he discovers a secret labyrinth of Back
Each has a strange and unsettling design.
Tiny doors with three knobs, narrow passageways, piles of strangely familiar laundry, masses of junky furniture stacked ominously.
The disorienting effect of back rooms...
is magnified through the film's use of found footage, as we view some of the rooms via fuzzy images shot on vintage camcorders.
Back Room's origin is what's known as a creepypasta.
For those who don't know, that's a catch-all phrase used to describe pieces of horror folklore that spread on the internet.
Kane Parsons made a popular Backrooms web series for YouTube when he was a teenager.
Rihanna Cruz, I'm going to start with you.