Comments by "Regulus" (@xXx_Regulus_xXx) on "A Maze of Terror - The Backrooms Series Explained" video.

  1. glad I'm not the only one who feels this way about the backrooms. the more we know, the less scary it is.
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  2. I think Kane is doing a decent job. He's adding his own elements but they make sense and the "levels" (groan) aren't proliferating into infinity like with the wiki version of the backrooms. The monsters having something to do with the damp filth in the carpet makes them feel less random, and for the kind of story he's trying to tell I think there needs to be a monster. Researchers wandering through infinite hallways would only be interesting for a short while if nothing actually happens. The original take on the backrooms of there being a few completely empty liminal spaces you can fall into and maybe find the exit if you're lucky are better as visual art or something more interactive like a walking sim. Either way, the backrooms is internet fiction that doesn't have a fixed canon like SCP and this is a great addition to the collection.
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  3.  @Z25O  I wouldn't say it's scarier to more people because the fear of the unknown and the fear of being chased are both archetypal fears. And if I haven't made it clear enough by now I'm not saying your favorite interpretation of the backrooms is bad or something, you're allowed to like it. I'm just not sure if Kane's Backrooms in particular would work without a monster, and with the lack of any strict canon I think it's nice that there's a version of the backrooms that has one kind of monster. Without the monster, this story in particular is just a corporation expanding into the backrooms, people start living in there, and then the project eventually gets abandoned because of all the mold deaths and the magnetic disturbances causing people to fall through solid objects in base reality. Entries like found footage #2 might still work but I don't know if the whole narrative would hold up.
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