A cultural system of significance seeks to avoid events that are disruptive for a given system of significance or seeks to downplay or explain away the phenomena that are unavoidably disruptive . . . If we accept this general distinction, then we might explicate the exact nature of the “confusion” that induces horror in the following way. The backrooms start being terrifying not just when I find myself surrounded by the cultural cavities, i.e. by the disorder and decay of meaningfulness. It occurs when I obtain a first unclear feeling that here cavities are not anomalies but the constitutive principles of organization of this situation. A horror-situation, i.e. a setting where horror can meaningfully appear, is characterized by an inversed setting where something like a cultural cavity takes the position of cultural height and cultural heights are moved to the status of an anomaly that themselves call for an explanation and rearrangement; in backrooms, I myself become an anomaly.