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  • I liked it. I saw a lot of negative audience reviews, and I think they’re from children that were excited by the pop culture backrooms craze. It isn’t fast paced Hollywood horror, they didn’t use jump scares, and you need to have some amount of media literacy to understand what the backrooms represent and how each of the characters interface with it. A bunch of kids showed up just wanting spooky scary liminal spaces and monsters, and while the movie is suspenseful, it isn’t Hollywood blockbuster horror. I think the movie is much better for it. I highly recommend watching it. It takes a while to reveal the real themes at play and what the backrooms is a metaphor for, but I found it very rewarding. 9/10 for me.