BACKROOMS Out of the Theater Reaction! | Kane Parsons | Chiwetel Ejiofor | Renate Reinsve

Added: 2026-05-23

[00:00:00]Christine Alonzo, this suitably bland setting. We just got out of seeing back rooms. Wow. Uh, we're at the Grove. I don't know when the embargo lifts. Next week.

[00:00:12]>> What even is time?

[00:00:14]>> Exactly. Depends on what room you're in.

[00:00:17]>> Uh, this is like a cross between Skinner and Sonectic New York. It's got a lot of like Charlie Kaufman but like deeply twisted >> and with with no like wit or whimsy, just horror.

[00:00:32]>> Yeah.

[00:00:32]>> Um >> monotonous incessant horror.

[00:00:36]>> No, it's this is kind of like maybe the the apotheiois of A24 horror. And then it's like it's just a bunch of weird blank rooms, but it's like still seeped in dread and unease and >> Yeah. It's >> weird weird broken furniture. Yeah.

[00:00:53]>> Things that are just offkilter slightly.

[00:00:56]>> Yeah. The tiniest bit offputting. Just like hallways that don't make any sense and >> doors in the ceiling, but not like in a whimsical Alice and Wonderland kind of way.

[00:01:05]>> No. No. And like the shittiest furniture you've ever seen.

[00:01:09]>> It was 1990.

[00:01:10]>> Yeah. Yeah. Not a good time. And um like this movie is as meticulously art directed as I love boosters, but to be hideous and that takes some doing. I mean like it is consistently just off-putting.

[00:01:26]>> Yeah.

[00:01:27]>> And that's that's exactly what they were going for and they do it >> right to make you feel dread. What's going to happen in each new room that two edgifer goes down? Um >> it's saying something about the nature of memory and trauma and not being able to get away from yourself and like bad patterns and there's no good answer to that.

[00:01:47]>> No. No. And and and it it definitely does the thing where like a thing that bugged me about the post get out Jordan Peele movies is I feel like they explain too much or too little, >> right?

[00:02:00]>> And this one's just right.

[00:02:02]>> Just enough. Yeah. Ronaldo Rinsba is great in it. Like increasingly great in it. You think you know who her character is and there's more to her.

[00:02:11]>> Um Yeah. If you have a problem with claustrophobia >> Yeah.

[00:02:15]>> Yeah. or like the thing that I know bothers you like people hurting themselves or or like like being hurt.

[00:02:21]>> Yeah. Yeah. And there's I mean there's a few jump scares but it's really more about just the the dread.

[00:02:27]>> Yeah.

[00:02:27]>> And the claustrophobia for sure. And um and and yeah, just like it is, and I mean this in a good way, it is nauseating.

[00:02:37]>> It's a lot of like first person kind of Blair Witchy kind of >> Yeah. and just like these yellow walls and just Yeah. I mean like this movie's ugliness is breathtaking.

[00:02:51]>> Kudos cuz I mean I'm I'm not saying it like it's a bad thing. I mean like they they this is this is meticulously artdirected hideousness.

[00:02:58]>> Yeah. Kane Parsons made movie you wanted to make based on the YouTube videos you wanted to make. So if you know the videos, this is a continuation of that.

[00:03:05]>> Yeah.

[00:03:05]>> We we'll review for you I think on Wednesday.

[00:03:08]>> Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes.

[00:03:09]>> Yeah. I got to like shake this mood now.

[00:03:11]Like it leaves you like with a lingering mood of just unease. So that is effective. That's what he wanted to do >> for sure. Yeah. Yeah. No, no. I I had not seen any of the YouTube stuff. This I went in totally cold and freaked my So, bravo, sir. Uh yeah, we'll talk about it more uh next week.

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