Finding the Spiritual Sub-Basement in ‘Backrooms’

Backrooms was the talk of the box office this past weekend. The R-rated horror movie earned $81.4 million (just a bit lower than Monday’s estimates) and, in so doing, may mark a shift in how Hollywood does its business.You can read about Backrooms’ interesting backstory in my review. But in short, the movie’s fright factor is based on a popular and growing internet theme predicated on liminal spaces. Those spaces are huge, uncanny and empty—or, at least, they would seem so at first.But just why