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“Oh my god, there’s something in the room…chairs!!” (No disrespect to Obsession or Backrooms, I just thought this was funny)

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A comic in 2 parts:

Old Horror Icons

A picture of Freddy Krueger, from the movie A Nightmare on Elm Street, with the caption: Melted Faced Killer with a Knife Hand

A picture of Pennywise, from the movie IT, with the caption: Creepy Clown Killer

Modern Horror Icons

A picture of a liminal office as seen in The Backrooms with the caption: A Room

A picture of a sad girl, Freaky Nikki from the movie Obsession, with the caption: A guy’s girlfriend

  • gigastasio@sh.itjust.works
    172·
    3 days ago

    Backrooms resonates with people because it represents the fear of the unknowable, the fear of being in the presence of something you can’t see or identify, or understand its intentions. It’s practically infinite, easy to get lost in, and is way less empty than it looks. Maybe you’re fine. Maybe you’re seconds away from death. You can’t know.

      • FiniteBanjo@feddit.onlineEnglish
        1·
        3 days ago

        In life you have this general assumption that by doing things correctly and living in the right place that you will live to somewhere around 81 years old, which is the national average for UK.

        You could die at any moment but you roughly know what the odds of that are: slim. In the backrooms; you do not know.