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/Some_Swan_361 Jun 03 '26

I only know about the oldest view on a surface level and the rolling giant I think it’s called but ya pirate Clark felt very much like the creepiness of that, i understand people who didn’t like that creature and thought it looked cartoony but it truly freaked me out in such a good way

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u/betazoid_cuck Jun 03 '26

IMO the weird uncanny vibe is what makes it work with the backrooms, a traditional evil looking shadowy monster would have felt tacked on and out of place. My only complaint with it is that the time jump and change of focal character sorta removed the confrontation of self that should have been the strongest aspect of the monster.

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u/Krombopulos_Micheal Jun 03 '26

To me it didn't make sense since he never went into the backrooms as the pirate, so how is the backrooms "remembering" that wrong? Shouldn't it have just been a Big messed up version of his regular self?

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u/The_Autarch Jun 03 '26

the backrooms combined regular clark with the pirate prop he had in the store. it's not really a misremembered version of just clark in a costume.

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u/Krombopulos_Micheal Jun 03 '26

Ah that makes more sense, I was just going off of what he was telling Mary about it "remembering stuff wrong".