Backrooms, 2026 - ★★★½

Some fun creepy pasta over here.

Some fun creepy pasta over here.

Art

I didn't know who Shelley was before watching this, but this was the doc I needed to see right now. It's a well made movie of a fascinating, impressive, and tragic person.

Man there’s so much of this movie that rules, but there’s also so many checkhovs guns that are set up and then politely holstered that I didn’t feel the tension of the setups concluded. The ending truly sucked.
I didn’t realize that the Coyote vs. Acme movie is based on a short piece in The New Yorker from 1990, by Ian Frazier. They’re both good!
I had a draft saved from 2 years ago about my media diet. Some may say it’s too late to finish and publish it, but I say let’s sit with what I was peeping back in 2024.

I laughed a lot.

Surprisingly heartwarming! Others have noted the anti-capitalist themes, which are certainly here, and made more relevant by the movie almost not seeing release so Warner could write it off on their taxes. It's also got some solid jokes and Will Forte is always great. I didn't love how the movie looked; the animation is all 3D made to look like hand drawn, and it ends up looking like a video game. All and all, good fun.

Very funny. Relationships go boom.

Watched on Friday August 7, 2026.

Still the best.

It’s a thin soup at this point.

Felt like a follow up to the 2013 remake in four tone, but way more gross. There’s lots of gore but it was the no blood moment that made me gag.

I’ve seen it twice in the theaters now and I picked up more the second time. I was also the oldest person in the theater by a good amount both times. I’m hip.

Watched on Thursday July 16, 2026.

Fun sequel. Hard to pull off a decent one with a high concept premise like this and while it doesn’t reach the original it’s a real good time.

Really fun and more emotional than I expected. Ace cast.

Genuinely unsettling. This thing has been out for weeks and my local theater was almost full. I didn't know the director was a former YouTuber before I saw the movie, or that he was so young. I can clock some of that inexperience in retrospect, but overall it's a confident, stylish, and creepy debut. Also, according to the box office, everyone has already seen this, so y'all know what I mean.

Ghost train is best train.

Watched on Thursday June 11, 2026.

Watched on Saturday June 6, 2026.

Train cinema forever. Every genre. What a romp.

What a fun slow burn 70s disaster movie. The cast is insane, and I found it so compelling throughout.

This movie whips.

Great New York movie, great transit movie.