BACKROOMS excavates the fear of turning a corner

If you had to describe a dog to someone who’d never seen one, and then asked them to draw it, would it look like a dog? If they’d never seen an actual dog, could any approximation of what you’d described – 4 legs, 2 ears, wagging tail – get them close enough? And even if it did: would “close enough” to an actual dog just be all the creepier?

This is an image Kane Parsons’s Backrooms keeps circling back to. Is it possible to transmit your interior self to someone else? And if it is, would the result even be recognizable?

BRING HER BACK joins the Grief-Horror Assembly Line

After Danny and Michael Philippou’s electrifying debut Talk To Me (2022) redefined possession horror with its brilliant blend of anxiety and supernatural dread, anticipation for their follow-up reached considerable heights (at least they did for me). Bring Her Back shoulders the burden of that promise—and unfortunately, shows just how tough it can be to follow a breakthrough first film.

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