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Several days ago I received something in the mail from E.A. A rorschach inkblot that looks something like the one you see in the preview window of this video below. It is covered in “alien” writing that glows in the dark and can be seen under a black light. It also came with a card that mostly spoke of patient 1544C, or Issac. There was some alien writing on it that begged to be deciphered.
After remembering seeing a chart in Dead Space that translated the alien letters into the English alphabet, I searched the interwebz with the help of my partner in Dead Pixels Podcast crime, found the chart, and deciphered the message. “The sickness is the cure! The cure is the sickness!” Still bewildered we googled a found out that something was going to happen today. And there it is above! That’s my story, and now I bow out gracefully.
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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