Film Theory: Decoding the Horror of The Backrooms

Theory: mothers are able to clip in and out of the backrooms, but only to find objects their kids have been looking for for 20 minutes

Imagine you no-clip into the backrooms and then you see matpat holding a notebook aggressively writing stuff down as he stares at a wall

the monster's screams kinda sounds like its saying "dont go" and stuff like that, and when the monster finally reaches the cameraman, instead of knocking him down, it saves the dude from falling down into the hole and most likely to his death. It seems to be trying to help the cameraman, but is too strong and likely kills a lot of its victims, hence the scary situation. who knows, could it be a human corrupted by the bacteria, barely hanging on to life? is this a job for the master theorist himself?

I personally love the idea that the Backrooms is just a really intense, glitchy game of Prop Hunt

I like how enthusiastic he is about all the series he does. It almost doesn’t matter what he covers, so much as he himself likes it

The idea that The Backrooms is “a video game” that you simply no-clip into as you’ve mentioned, I bet speedrunners would find a way to escape The Backrooms through glitches and “mechanics”.

7:00 No. Not dumb. When you are in an infinite maze, the capacity to build walls is perhaps one the most useful things you can have. By building walls, you can simplify the maze, making it far easier to navigate - particularly if you're using colored lanes and signs to indicate where you are. That means it's also easier to remember the layout of a given area. Additionally, by building rooms and closing them off with marked doors, you even further simplify the maze, because you reduce the necessary navigational area. Even further, you can close off any undesirable passages that lead to dangerous zones within the maze, making it far safer to traverse. Don't underestimate walls, MattPat. They've been a genius invention that's lasted us for thousands upon thousands of years.

I think the backrooms monster is some sort of mutated camera. It could be one of the cameras in Motion Detected because the creature seems to be attracted to motion("don't move" written on the wall in the first Backrooms video) and also records its victims' screams because the camera starts recording when it detects loud sounds, making it able to imitate humans like you see in Pitfalls.

I absolutely love how much research and science Kane puts into these episodes. Most horror episodes are just, “oOOoOoH cReEpY bRoDcAsT” but this is actually a really realistic project. Even better that the graphics add even more realism to it. Glad to see you’re just as obsessed with these as I am!

Theory: When the guy was separated from his group, he trespassed time-space and came back as some time later, which is how he finds the control room that is barely being built just as he goes out, as shown in Motion Detected

Theory: The description of “The Backrooms (Found Footage)” dates the video as September 23, 1996, but if you look at the movie clapboard, the dates is stated as 7/4/91. I believe September 23, 1996 was the date the footage was FOUND, when the recording was made July 4, 1991. Could be important.

Theory: Theoretically speaking, there is an infinite distance between any 2 given particles if you are small enough so if the backrooms were actually just super small with a some how seamless transition while shrinking/"falling in" that would explain the size of the bacteria, how no one ever gets seriously hurt when falling large distances, and the seemingly infinite volume of the backrooms.

The idea that you can just randomly stumble into a portal that leads to an endless maze of hallways that are filled with monsters while walking around is absolutely terrifying. If it was real I’d never leave my house like ever I mean I barely do anyway as is but you get my point.

About the monster, I have my personal theory on what it is. It most likely is bacteria but I also think it is more. This cluster of bacteria seems to have some sort of exoskeleton. During the brief moments we see it it maintains a basic shape, a long narrow design that mimics a human. It has legs, arms, and a face but a weird ejection on the side. With that being said I would like to direct your attention to something else. In the very first video there was a warning right before the monster was fully shown. It said “Don’t move, stay still.” Strange that it says that, shouldn’t you be running away from it? What could possibly be the reason? There’s only one thing we’ve found that in the backrooms that could detect motion, the cameras. You see, during the motions detected video, one of the cameras had a “microphone failure” and shortly after that it shows the creepy “motion detected” scene. My guess is that this bacteria doesn’t just walk around as a culture, it “infected” one of the cameras and used this body as a way to move around. It also has a very similar design to it, two arms and one leg (the same amount of limbs on the camera stands), along with a weird protruding stick (which is the stick used to adjust stands from what I know), and the final thing being it’s head (it’s the camera).

I love how kane uses already existing liminal space images that are popular in the backrooms community in some of his work. Seeing the weird apartment complex was such a treat, I hope he does more stuff like that.

I’d genuinely love a TV series about the Backrooms. It would be the perfect horror series.

It's so inspiring how Kane Pixels is only 16 yet he's able to do all this

They say that in the backrooms, there is this substance called almond water. I would be interested in knowing what that would taste like.

It is interesting that the creatures are so violent from an evolutionary perspective. Usually things are only aggressive if they have to hunt or defend themselves from being hunted (think horses vs zebras) Why are these creatures so aggressive? Do they fight each other? Are they targeted by something else?

The camera guy that glitched was glitched forward in time by the backrooms. At the end of "Backrooms - Presentation" there was a camera showing a guy in a hazmat suit under a red alarm 🚨. This shows that the backrooms can change time for some people.