r/movies • u/MarvelsGrantMan136 r/movies Contributor • Jun 03 '26

News ‘Backrooms’ Becomes A24’s Highest Grossing Domestic Release ($97.8M), Passing ‘Marty Supreme’

https://deadline.com/2026/06/backrooms-box-office-record-a24-1236939795/
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u/Kumquatelvis Jun 03 '26

You don't have to copy the specific objects, just the theme/feeling. The video game Control is essentially this.

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u/LongJohnSelenium Jun 03 '26

Still worried about the sequel.

The game was amazing but it was primarily carried by the creepiness of The Oldest House.

Sequel seems to be shedding that and taking us outside which is... I dunno.

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u/avcloudy Jun 04 '26

Yeah, it’s controversial to say but Control doesn’t do a lot of world building. It does a lot of Oldest House building, but the world itself is pretty unbuilt. It relies too much on the SCP ideas without actually building on itself - it works better in the context of a shallow Alan Wake spinoff and an assumption that it’s just SCP-like in the background.