'Backrooms' Is Rewriting What Horror Is Allowed to Be

Horror has always been good at monsters. What it's historically been less good at is dread without a source, the particular unease of being somewhere wrong without knowing how you got there or what, exactly, is coming for you. Backrooms fixes that, and in doing so has quietly become one of the most significant shifts in how the genre operates in years.The origins of this blockbuster is, almost, embarrassingly simple. It all started from single photograph uploaded to 4chan in 2019: an empty room,...