Latest is they want to buy Letterboxd. It seems like they're distracted with all these tech ideas: AI with Deepmind, now this. Meanwhile they're having trouble holding down Kane Parsons. Just focus on movies!!

https://shop.a24films.com/collections/backrooms

When you flip the tape over, the back is the mirror image of the front and it's upside down so the tape comes out like it was remembered wrong.

….an extra $20.00 added to their account?? I mean, I’ll take it, but I have zero clue where it came from or why. I was already maxed out at $25.00 and woke up to this.

Noticed that the films sometimes go on sale in the app, but find them just by clicking on each title. Am I missing an easy way to track these?

For example, today we have Y2K and Death of a Unicorn for $7.99 to own, and a couple others.

I just like Mother Mary. My initial impression was fun but didn't live up to its potential. But the more I think about it the more I like it. And now it's one of my favorite movies.

I hesitate to call this a moodboard, given that it is so bare bones, but I feel that there really isn't much to portray about it considering that when you get down to it, the story really is just two people talking to each other. But I can't get it out of my head, so I figured I might as well try.

I used lyrics from the various songs in the tie-in album to add more texture to it. I also like how the two gold circles I included ended up making the whole thing look a bit like a cassette tape. For being such a simple moodboard, and I've made ones more complicated than this, it took a lot longer than I expected. Like. Around three hours of continuous work.

I chose the very first picture because it is two people as one unit, but disordered, like Sam and Mary. I considered just two shadows outlined by the sun, but this felt more honest to their actual state in the film for most of it.

The second and third photos are rather self-explanatory, I think, but I chose them to symbolize the work they put in to mend their relationship. An interesting thing about Mary's request about not incorporating a halo on this new dress is how she wants to take it off because it also symbolizes S putting her up on a pedestal. But here we see that Sam still imagines her floating above. But I think this time not because she's idolizing M, but because she's acknowledging her importance in her life and her love for her. But that's just my interpretation.

Anyways. Yeah.

What do you think?

Plot: Years after her Hollywood breakthrough, a talented actress whose career has stalled fights for her second act.

I bought some backrooms merch over a month ago now and there’s been no update on it. Is there a support email I can contact to check on the status of it?

i just finished the film without looking at any reviews on reddit or elsewhere so this is a totally unbiased opinion, but this film may be one of the more unsettling films i’ve watched in awhile.

i’m not sure if it’s because i watched with headphones in or what, but the beginning was kind of boring. definitely a slow burn, but once it hid the midway point i became a lot more interested. the audio did a lot of the heavy lifting but i think that’s what i really enjoyed about it. david gertsman and jon lawless, chef’s kiss

i haven’t felt this much dread since sinister. pretty well-explored themes (demons, paranormal activity, etc.) but i enjoyed the audio design and the podcast element.

3/5, would not watch again because of that audio lol

Yesterday i ordered the 4k ultra uhd disc of the backrooms but i meant to buy the standard blu-ray version (i didn't see the option where i could change which one it was, thought i was buying the blu-ray), i emailed asking if i could change my order or get a refund, does anyone have experience with this and know whether or not they will read and accept it?

Update: I sent the initial email at 10 am with no response, but after reading an FAQ from their website i realized i should have my order number in the subject of the email so I sent a new one

Update2: They were able to cancel the order, thanks for the help everybody!

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Right after my first watch, I came up with a crazy theory based strictly on the details shown in the movie. I’ll break down my thoughts point by point below.

### 1. Clark is not the main character / The entire world is Mary’s madness

Throughout the film, Clark is on screen almost constantly—we watch his life and his struggles. Hell, even the Backrooms itself seems to be an extension of HIS furniture store and, as many believe, HIS internal issues.

But no.

Let's start with the fact that Mary's childhood home is literally a condensed version of the Backrooms. Yellow walls, furniture piled on top of each other, no sunlight—sound familiar?

Let's dive deeper into her psychology: an insane mother (a crucial detail we’ll return to later), a rough childhood, and a house she was forbidden to leave. If you aren't allowed to leave the house, you don't see the outside world. Her home *was* her entire world. The world became an infinite, enclosed space. Naturally, these visuals got burned into her psyche.

In adulthood, her hereditary schizophrenia—likely passed down from her mother—entered an active phase. Those childhood images returned in a distorted, exaggerated form. As the disease reached its peak, Mary fell into a coma—a dream state rooted in her massive childhood trauma, which had grown like a tumor.

So what about A-Sync then? Did they somehow teleport into people's minds? Of course not, and here is where they actually come from.

### 2. A-Sync isn't a group of mad scientists—it's just a medical company manufacturing MRI machines

Obviously, Mary needed to be taken to a hospital, which is exactly what happened. She was placed inside an MRI scanner for brain imaging to determine a treatment course. Her dying brain managed to catch onto a single detail: the A-Sync logo on the MRI machine.

How do I know this? It’s mentioned near the end during the dialogue between Phil and Mary: A-Sync used to manufacture MRI scanners—though "used to" only applies within Mary's mind. Her subconscious needed a logical explanation for what was happening, and it found an outlet in that logo, using it to invent a "mysterious organization exploring a mysterious realm."

Furthermore, right in that same scene, we are shown MRI brain scans. Connecting the dots: those are scans of Mary’s brain, which further confirms my theory.

### 3. What are the entities in the Backrooms, and who is Clark after all?

The entities that vaguely resemble humans—made of an edible white substance—are real people from Mary’s life/her patients. You know how faces often get distorted in dreams because the subconscious remembers them that way? *"The Backrooms remembers them like that,"* as Clark put it in one of the most unsettling dinner scenes in the film. This further proves that the Backrooms is merely a figment of a dying brain.

Clark is Mary’s patient. He is the only one who isn't an entity (or is a different kind of entity). Why? I believe Mary saw his face far too often. We get a hint during a childhood flashback: an annoying TV commercial for Captain Clark’s furniture store pops up.

It’s also very possible that Clark himself triggered Mary’s active schizophrenia with his stories about a place resembling endless office corridors, making him the "anchor" of the Backrooms. Why did Clark see the Backrooms *before* telling Mary about it? Simple: an unreliable narrator + he could have been suffering from his own mental illness related to Barbara leaving and subsequently living in a furniture store that closely resembles Mary’s Backrooms. Just a coincidence.

### 4. Is Mary an entity?

Short answer: no. But also yes and no at the same time.

Before the credits roll, we are shown a distorted version of Mary sitting in a chair. Most likely, that’s the moment her brain officially died. It forgot its own identity. It no longer remembers the details of who it was, effectively becoming an "entity"—pure oblivion.

*This concludes my analysis. I’m not claiming this is absolute truth or the only valid perspective—just sharing my personal thoughts on what took place in the film.*

P.S. I wrote the original text in Russian. Let me know if you would like to see the original.

not gonna lie, this is pretty damn cool! it’s thick, the camera doesn’t do the color justice, and just wondering if other folks received theirs too. i love a24 and the movie was cool but tbh i feel like someone else might love this much more than i ever will. if anyone’s interested in chatting about it, lemme know!