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Level 4: Asylum's are scary because they're dehumanizing cages that deny people any autonomy even over their own mind and their potential for neglect and other abuses is limitless.

Okay lukewarm take I think but Backrooms was a horribly made movie. I didn't know like about there being a whole series of stuff explaining the actual backrooms I mainly knew it from tiktok and roblox where it was popularised and I'd never even heard of the series until my friend that I watched it with got annoyed that I hadn't watched it after we got out of the cinema. Anyway it got me thinking that a movie shouldn't have to link to all the lore for you to understand it. Like the Until Dawn movie I have played the game so many times and I've played inpatient which is the prequel. I was upset when I watched the movie and it didn't follow the game storyline sure but it worked and actually added to the lore and without it the creation of the second game that's coming out wouldn't really make sense. I feel like any movie that is part of a franchise that already exists but is a name that isn't always known for its deep lore like fnaf lets say should work as a standalone and add to the lore for people who do know the lore and would appreciate stuff like that. Idk yall tell me ur opinions please!!

IM IRRITATED there were so many good small details and it could've been so good but I didn't feel lost in the backrooms I feel like there was too much focus on extra plot for the characters and it was simply irrelevant. Most of the things I got from the extra character plot either didn't contributed to the story all that much or could've been easily deduced and they were dragging it. For example Mary's mother. Ibsr I didn't need an explanation as to why her whole philosophy was built on widows all it did was take me out of the backroom and because it kept taking us out of the backrooms instead of feeling like this infinite space it just felt like an inconsistent set instead of a constantly growing maze so it took away from the creepy side of the backrooms that it's known for it lacked the confusing direction because every room didnt really have much choice of where to go it was multiple instances where it was one door per room there was no suspense of where they'd run cus it was fucking obvious it felt less like a place you'd get lost in cus it wouldn't be hard to retrace your steps. Also the fact that Clark was in and out multiple times and his map spanned a large area it felt linear and I feel like I didn't focus on the fact that in everything piece of media I've seen about the backrooms it's practically impossible to navigate because everything looks the same and it should be very easy to take a wrong turn and get lost.