# Backrooms (2026) **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** movies, documentary-bio\ **Created:** [June 2, 2026, 1:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/backrooms-2026/1030562 "2026-06-02T13:32:55Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 6
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2026, 3:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/backrooms-2026/1030562/6 "2026-06-02T15:02:56Z")
To copy what I said elsewhere: > [@Movies you've seen recently (Part 2)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-2/1006288/5637): > > I’m not the horror fan my daughter is as I don’t find jumpscares and excessive gore fun to watch per se, but good psychological horror will suit me well. And this is some very good psychological horror indeed. > > Okay, yes, it can be seen as a hamhanded metaphor for AI and yes, it ends somewhat abruptly. But the visuals - oh man, the visuals are _deeply_ unsettling throughout. Every room, every space is either small and cluttered and claustrophobic or oppressively big and empty. Nowhere is comfortable, nowhere is safe. There are a few jumpscares and a little gore but it’s the long, long traverses of the Backrooms that will wear your nerves raw. The moments when action happens are almost a relief after that. One can argue that there isn’t much plot to this film but honestly, the direction and set design are amazingly good. The word I keep coming back to is “unsettling”. The whole film is unsettling. Even when we’re not in the Backrooms, the rooms and people encountered are all “off”, and it becomes increasingly difficult to see where the line between reality and the other world is drawn. For example, when Mary comes up the stairs at the end into the showroom, is that the _real_ showroom or a copy? I couldn’t tell. In short, I really liked it. And I think it’s been deliberately teed up for potential sequels. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/backrooms-2026/1030562)._