if you want 3 hours of guys just trying to map out and "outsmart" a strange, unknowable, set of liminal spaces, boy howdy do I have the movie for you:
the backrooms movie misunderstands the appeal and potential of its own concept. the sequence where the went in with the rope and mapped everything out was what the whole movie should've been like. i wanted to see more of them figuring out the rules and trying to outsmart it