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‘Allison Road’ is Back from the Dead!
In June, the P.T.-inspired psychological horror game Allison Road met the same fate as the demo that inspired it. The game’s publisher, Team17, quietly confirmed its cancellation and promised to issue a statement within the “next few days.” Fast forward nearly two weeks later and we got our statement, but still no explanation. There wasn’t much to glean from it, unless you weren’t aware of the “many layers of complexity” involved in modern games development.
It seemed as if there was no way this could end well, and that made the news of its revival all the more surprising. Allison Road creator Christian Kesler has resumed development of the title, albeit with a slightly refocused direction, as Kesler recently explained in an interview with IGN.
“After the set back, I took a bit of a break from working on it and re-evaluated all the work that had been done so far — the whole journey, so to speak,” says Kesler. “I started making a few (in my opinion) necessary changes to the story and the flow, little bits and pieces here and there, and before I knew it, it sort of naturally came back to life.”
Allison Road will be the debut title for the newly formed Far From Home, which Kesler co-founded with his wife. No release date has been announced.
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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