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Kojima and Mikami Came Together for… Something
Under most circumstances, a picture of famed Japanese game designers Shinji Mikami and Hideo Kojima standing side-by-side wouldn’t be news. All you need to do is look at the games these two have in the pipeline — The Evil Within from Mikami, Silent Hills from Kojima — and the imminent arrival of Tokyo Game Show on Sept 18 qualifies this as something worth talking about.
Since we have no context, our minds are free to imagine the more ridiculous possibilities, like a collaborative project between Mikami and Kojima, or perhaps Mikami decided to make the Kojima/Guillermo Del Toro dream team even dreamier with his involvement.
I’m sure the story behind this is more along the lines of “two colleagues meet up to chat about the awesome things they’re doing for the horror community”, but coming up with other reasons is still super fun. If you have an idea, share it in the comments.
The image comes from a post on the official The Evil Within Facebook page, along with some Japanese text that mentions something about Japanese gaming magazine Famitsu and the cryptic message “What do you think Shinji and Kojima are talking about?”
What indeed!
The best part about engaging with collaborative genre fiction on the internet is that anyone can get in on the action, with worldwide accessibility often resulting in absurd story beats that wouldn’t be possible if any single person was responsible for the entire narrative. And while Kane Parsons’ Backrooms film is definitely the young filmmaker’s own unique take on the infamous creepypasta, it’s fun to see other creators join the Backrooms sandbox now that the big screen adaptation is getting ready for a record-shattering opening weekend.
As if cleverly timed releases like Puppet Combo’s The Backrooms game weren’t enough (not to mention that Scary Movie poster poking fun at Parsons’ flick), McDonald’s official social media accounts have now released an analog horror video of their own celebrating the liminal terrors of the McRooms – complete with a familiar purple surprise at the end of the footage.
While it’s funny enough to see the world’s most recognizable Fast Food giant engage with internet-borne Found Footage thrills seemingly out of the blue, the video is actually referencing a long-running gag among the Backrooms fandom where creators jokingly talk about there being a fully functional McDonald’s restaurant hidden somewhere in level 0 of the infamous liminal labyrinth.
Now, would it be too much to hope for a moist-carpet-flavored McShake to tie in with the film?
Backrooms is now playing only in theaters from A24.
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