There is a genre of found footage horror/SF that I've been occasionally keeping an eye out for, and given that it's Halloween, good time to post some stuff about it.
Basically the lore of the back rooms, for those that don't know, is that it is a sort of inter-dimensional space that consists of infinite endless corridors and rooms, empty and austere, 'man-made' (as in clearly aping human architecture) but arranged in weird and unsettling layouts. No open spaces or sky, just rooms lit by artificial light. It's a liminal space that reality pops into existence to cover 'holes', perhaps.
So basically the idea is that people can get 'sucked' into this space and they usually record trying to find a way out - hence a lot of found footage (somehow the phone/camera they are using leaks back into the real world).
However, after a while they notice they are not alone and something walks these empty corridors. Something that you should not attempt to face....
Done well, it is pretty damn creepy. I'll try and find some better ones later on, but here is one to start ya...
Basically the lore of the back rooms, for those that don't know, is that it is a sort of inter-dimensional space that consists of infinite endless corridors and rooms, empty and austere, 'man-made' (as in clearly aping human architecture) but arranged in weird and unsettling layouts. No open spaces or sky, just rooms lit by artificial light. It's a liminal space that reality pops into existence to cover 'holes', perhaps.
So basically the idea is that people can get 'sucked' into this space and they usually record trying to find a way out - hence a lot of found footage (somehow the phone/camera they are using leaks back into the real world).
However, after a while they notice they are not alone and something walks these empty corridors. Something that you should not attempt to face....
Done well, it is pretty damn creepy. I'll try and find some better ones later on, but here is one to start ya...
