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‘Backrooms’ Review: Experimental Horror Comes Out of the Margins in Kane Parsons’ YouTube-Gone-A24 Head Trip

Parsons, in his feature directing debut (the script is by Will Soodik), proves a wizard of mood who shares the early David Lynch’s love of industrial cosmic sound design, and also Lynch’s fixation on the mysteries of electricity. Parsons wrings…

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Parsons, in his feature directing debut (the script is by Will Soodik), proves a wizard of mood who shares the early David Lynch’s love of industrial cosmic sound design, and also Lynch’s fixation on the mysteries of electricity. Parsons wrings genuine terror out of the sense of being enclosed, in what feels at times like it could be some infinite version of a serial killer’s lair.

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