‘Backrooms’ & ‘Obsession’ break box office records

[timdrake 1,690]

Loved obsession, but Backrooms didn't do too much for me. Regardless, I'm happy to see non-tentpole regurgitated IP doing great at the box office. 

[gagzus 21,191]

18 minutes ago, Morphine Prince said:

May this start a trend of more original films, especially from young talent. 

So happy A24 is finally making the big bucks after years of distributing original films.

It is such a good week to see two great horror movies dominating and the corporate Disney sequel stuff not being able to top it.

 

Can’t say about Obsession but Backrooms is technically not an original film because it’s based on existing media. If they came up with the concept of Backrooms without the Creepypasta and YouTube videos then it would be classified as an original.

But original content is very sparse nowadays because companies worry about sales and will often put less money into stuff that doesn’t have a pre-existing property or history to play off of.

[Junko Enoshima 4,344]

Hope to see more horror movies that are actually horror and not gore

[Ladle Ghoulash 47,621]

41 minutes ago, gagzus said:

I can’t fathom that Toni Collette never won Best Actress when Hereditary was out. 

I’m SAYING! She was absolutely incredible in Hereditary 

[InTheCloset 21,722]

1 hour ago, Tinnitus15 said:

I didn’t see Obseesion today. It wasn’t good 

i will be seeing Obsession tomorrow. It will not be good

[Mister Gaga 23,137]

Haven’t seen obsession yet. Have seen Backrooms and it deserves it’s flowers, it’s mind blowing

[Anderson123 42,027]

Ah this makes me so happy. The 2020s have been such a great decade for horror films, glad to see people are going to support these brand new ideas (Backrooms based on a short but still) which I'm sure are going to get sequels soon.

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[RAMROD 116,063]

1 hour ago, elijahfan said:

Now can we finally take horror seriously in Hollywood?

I doubt that. It's just hat majority of movie goers now are gen Z who enjoys this genre, and that shows on box office. Meanwhile Hollywood are still run by boomers with their certain ideas, that might not be relevant today anymore.

[Morphine Prince 109,553]

1 hour ago, gagzus said:

Can’t say about Obsession but Backrooms is technically not an original film because it’s based on existing media. If they came up with the concept of Backrooms without the Creepypasta and YouTube videos then it would be classified as an original.

But original content is very sparse nowadays because companies worry about sales and will often put less money into stuff that doesn’t have a pre-existing property or history to play off of.

I guess. But I like that Kane made YouTube content and now made it into a film, so I’m going to count it as an original in my household! 

[Creyk 18,519]

3 hours ago, gagzus said:

I think it’s about time Horror as horror only gets its flowers at the Oscars like I can’t fathom that Toni Collette never won Best Actress when Hereditary was out. 
 

Yes Sinners just won BUT that was more of a drama with horror. 

The thing is, horror is distasteful and uncomfortable for a lot of people. It is never going to have that level of appeal, certainly not in our lifetime.

[gagzus 21,191]

4 minutes ago, Creyk said:

The thing is, horror is distasteful and uncomfortable for a lot of people. It is never going to have that level of appeal, certainly not in our lifetime.

I think they should judge it on how the authentic emotion is presented, if it unnerves you and the actors can act genuinely terrified and things without generic jump scares and make you invested in the twists and turns (ala Hereditary or Midsommar) then it should be eligible.

They also don’t have genre specific awards for Horror or Fantasy but will fully have a category for Animation and Thrillers often get put in drama categories. Thrillers are closer to Horrors than people think too.

[gagzus 21,191]

1 hour ago, Morphine Prince said:

I guess. But I like that Kane made YouTube content and now made it into a film, so I’m going to count it as an original in my household! 

oh I’m particularly happy the original creator of the YouTube videos made the movie. But even then his videos weren’t original they were based on a Creepypasta they’re just the most famous interpretation of the story. 
 

But the concept of Backrooms is in the public domain anyway hence the McDonald’s ad, there’s also a custom Tomb Raider story made about them too that’s quite popular online. 
 

I’m shocked nobody made a Backrooms movie or attempted to before really.