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'Backrooms' is Best Enjoyed As a Brutal Skewering of Millennial Cringe
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this post was submitted on 19 Jul 2026
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OK so I'm not the only one noticing the weird glazing of "pretty good but nothing really new" horror movies coming out and any criticism being declared jealous cope?
Probably doesn't help that I'm as burnt out on horror as I am Marvel slop I tend to find most of the genre very samey in general and not usually very scary.
I'm also scared that they're going to ruin the SPC Foundation when this horror trend inevitability gets too many executive fingers in the pie and we end up with them doing the "OK these are the boxes needed to be ticked for success now, let's do it 500 times". Because Hollywood has already said they're now scraping internet horror stories for ideas.
A lot of people are really desperate for mainstream good movies that are shared cultural experiences, and in the absence of any more than one a year at best they're just pretending that anything new, thats somewhat different from the slop factory they're used to, is completely groundbreaking
Compounded by most people nowadays being critically illiterate and terrified of being judged by social media panopticon if they look stupid so just defaulting to excessive praise to prove they got it in the absence of anything more to say about it.
The fact that to my understanding Curry Barker was a B-tier internet comic who established a rather rabid fanbase probably contributes a lot in this case.
Too high praise for a movie that I would say failed both technically and thematically.
It’s interesting, if they did SCP it would probably be some sort of retro nostalgia bait around some famous entry like 173. Not sure how the licensing would work, but it seems like at this point the SCP community has moved on. A lot of new articles are overwritten novelletes, because so much has already been explored.
Yeah SCP is quite old now, very early internet horror.