Endless yellow corridors started as an internet meme - now it's a Hollywood horror film
•Endless yellow corridors started as an internet meme - now it's a Hollywood horror film7 minutes agoShareSaveAdd as preferred on GoogleAlex TaylorCulture reporterA24British actor Chiwetel Ejiofor star...
•It's instantly recognisable to millions - and inspires dread.This is Hollywood's latest horror film - Backrooms - and it knows its audience: one more drawn to whispered horror than A-list names, monst...
•It could be an empty office block, a hallway or a corridor - unsettling between-zones.
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Endless yellow corridors started as an internet meme - now it's a Hollywood horror film7 minutes agoShareSaveAdd as preferred on GoogleAlex TaylorCulture reporterA24British actor Chiwetel Ejiofor stars as Clark, exploring the 'liminal space' halls of the BackroomsA movie poster showing a sheet of mono-yellow coloured wallpaper might typically wash over your head.Not this one. It's instantly recognisable to millions - and inspires dread.This is Hollywood's latest horror film - Backrooms - and it knows its audience: one more drawn to whispered horror than A-list names, monsters and gore.Backrooms are essentially disturbing, abandoned rooms with seemingly no end in sight. It could be an empty office block, a hallway or a corridor - unsettling between-zones. The concept came about in 2019, when anonymous users on message board 4chan were asked to "post disquieting images that just feel 'off'."A24A24's teaser poster for the film adaptation, relying on recognition of the Backrooms' mono-yellow wallpaperOne user posted an image of an abandoned office space, with mustard yellow wallpaper and fluorescent lighting.The post read: "If you're not careful and you noclip out of reality [gaming terminology for glitching or disappearing] in the wrong areas, you'll end up in the Backrooms, where it's nothing but the stink of old moist carpet, the madness of mono-yellow, the endless background noise of fluorescent lights at maximum hum-buzz, and approximately six hundred million square miles of randomly segmented empty rooms to be trapped in."The post continued: "God save you if you hear something wandering around nearby, because it sure as hell has heard you."4chanThe original image of the Backrooms uploaded to 4chan in 2019. It has since been sourced to a real furniture store in the US state of WisconsinThe concept then grew into a hugely popular YouTube mini-series, with creator Kane Parsons,...المصدر: BBC News | Source: BBC News
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