A Movie Where You Don't Know What's Going On Without Prior Knowledge: The Backrooms
Entering the theater without any prior knowledge or information, the movie The Backrooms was truly the epitome of the unknown. The only fact I knew about this work was that it was a horror-esque genre film exuding a peculiar and bizarre atmosphere. Because I walked into the theater without even looking at a trailer or a plot summary, there was a coexistence of vague dread and a strange curiosity about which direction the story unfolding on the screen would take. What was even more surprising was that despite it being a weekday afternoon—a relatively quiet time slot—the number of audiences filling the theater was much larger than expected. This was a fascinating scene proving how hot the word-of-mouth for this bizarre work is among the public, and how immense people's primal curiosity about unknown horror truly is. As the movie officially began and the logo of the production company A24 appeared in the opening sequence, I became certain that this film would not follow an ordinary tr...
