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An image from Backrooms (2026) of Mary about to enter the titular, surreal liminal space.

The Backrooms Doesn’t Punish Avoidance. It Feeds On It.

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**Beware…spoilers for Backrooms below.** I saw Backrooms on a Tuesday while drinking overpriced theater wine. Which…might be the correct way to encounter a film about the horror of never fully facing yourself. Later that night, I — half in awe,… 

Demi Moore as Elisabeth Sparkle vacuuming her living room in The Substance (2024).

The Mother-Daughter Horror Hidden Inside The Substance

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The scariest thing about Coralie Fargeat’s The Substance isn’t the body horror — it’s the multi-generational transmission of trauma. This is not simply a story about an aging woman being cruelly replaced by a younger competitor in a cutthroat industry.…