why has no movie capitalized on the "liminal spaces" craze?
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why has no movie capitalized on the "liminal spaces" craze?
why has no movie capitalized on the "liminal spaces" craze?
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Memes move too fast for Hollywood, we'll get a liminal spaces film but not until five years after the meme loses its relevance
Timeline checks out considering tulpahomosexualry was 2013 and the Empty Man came out in 2020. Liminal shit started in 2018-19 so it'll probably be another several years before anything comes of it in Hollywood.
Liminal shit has been posted in threads here on Cinemaphile since 2008 at least
It wasnt until recently that people decided to give it a horror twist and scp-level lore trying to interconnect a bunch of different spaces together
which i find moronic but it is what it is i guess. Im tired of everything having to be creepypastas and multiverses
>It wasnt until recently that people decided to give it a horror twist and scp-level lore trying to interconnect a bunch of different spaces together
I've never seen anyone actually do that on Cinemaphile(nel), but I have seen crazed people try to drag up stuff from other websites and shriek about it. Every "liminal space" thread I've on Cinemaphile or otherwise has just been "hey here's some cool pictures how come these feel spooky lol". And then a small minority of people seething and spamming their reddit screencaps. Wonder why they have so many pictures of reddit posts.
>It wasnt until recently that people decided to give it a horror twist and scp-level lore trying to interconnect a bunch of different spaces together
Creepypasta dweebs really are the worst. I stopped going to /x/ in 2011 when skinwalkers started to take off. Talk about a shit meme. It doesn't help being from a tribe where skinwalkers are just medicine men that drug you and throw an animal fur over themselves for some easy money, but /x/'ll spread cancer no matter what you tell 'em. Liminal spaces are even worse. At least with skinwalkers there are bits and pieces that are part of the real lore and bring about a sense of no real place to hide, but with liminal spaces it's sort of up in the air and stupid. I might end up in a weird room one day too, and it won't be spooky, it'll be like every other weird room I've been in. It's supposed to be a part of horror. As a character itself liminal spaces are honestly pretty stupid, made for stupid people.
isn't that like now?
Should just make it a direct sequel to the Emoji movie and be done with it.
Yeah, I'm waiting for them to use the 80s dark fantasy AI craze as an excuse to finish The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance.
good point
shining
Yeah, The Shining effectively uses liminal spaces long before the meme came about. Liminal spaces require subtlety, the typical jump-scares-and-loud-noises filmmaker doesn't have what it takes to exploit them.
what craze? people already forgot about this stupid shit
They’re always like 10 years behind internet fads. They’ll get to it once every zoomer has moved on.
>this terrifies the broccoli-haired zoomer
>this terrifies the diaper-wearing boomer
By deliberately selecting a comedy film in order to make a disingenuous comparison, you’ve successfully communicated that you are, in fact, seething.
>By deliberately selecting a comedy film in order to make a disingenuous comparison, you’ve successfully communicated that you are, in fact, seething.
its less anger and more contempt/disrespect for your subhuman homosexual generation.
the troony loving zoomer didn't know this was a comedy
WASSSUP
zoo zoos will not watch this because it is "problematic" lmao
they only found out about it recently https://youtu.be/qlKFE_0tGWI
Are you moronic?
They already have way before. Back then it was just called an ominous set design or something they didnt have a name yet or a culture around it.
Looks cool but imagine making an actual culture around "spooky" empty illuminated swimming pools and malls, this "aesthetic" shit has gone too far
It works when its just images shared online. Theres definitly worse internet trends
Well we basically had that on tumblr back in like 2012 but we called it vaporwave instead
>tumblr immigrant
Way to miss the point, also it was pretty good for porn for awhile
Yeah it would be like making a movie based on a creepypasta like slender man
Am I autistic or something because I just don't understand the fear of "liminal spaces" that people seem to have.
>oh no where are all the people?!?!?! SO SCARY
I don't get it either. I'm almost convinced it's a joke except I've met people that use the phrase in normal conversation to describe things. When I ask what the frick they mean it's always different.
>Am I autistic or something because I just don't understand the fear of "liminal spaces" that people seem to have.
Yes, unironically.
lmao yeah. I remember seeing the Shining as an unmonitored 5 or 6 year old and loved the hallway scene. I was like "damn that kid has that bigass house and can just ride his bike around like that? must be great! And he has two friends?"
Then it showed it two friends' corpses. Still can't believe I sat through the whole thing and remember it so clearly.
>you will never go back to the days when horror movies viscerally terrified you and stuck with you your whole life
I think watching those types of movies as a kid is what got me into film in the first place.
>you will never go back to the days when horror movies viscerally terrified you and stuck with you your whole life
Nobody has replied to this because it describes them exactly
jesus christ can you imagine being around her.
>gets sad because it knows rural areas exist
The frick?
rural areas are republican vote
>these are the people that unironically call you a "chud"
it's good that you're not seething
The way people describe it i dont get them either they always say its about how there are no people and some other psychological Horror
But to me these images just seem off or at the worst I get this feeling some witch demon serial killer could pop out at any moment like in a dream
There was this game demo where your character falls through a hole in the ground into a huge underground waterpark complex.
It was supposed to be a horror game, but I just felt calm and nostalgic, made me want to have a waterpark for myself.
Maybe because I'm a smalltown recluse the horror of "place that seems like it should have lots of people has no people" is lost on me.
If nothing happens I feel the same way, its just relaxing with a bit of an eery feel to it. But otherwise these places can remind me of my nightmares where i get chased down by clownspiders or something
Liminal is another word that's been hijacked and turned into some autistic bullshit, much like aesthetic as a noun. Originally liminal just meant in between places or phases, like airport, hotel, motel etc are liminal because they're places you just stop at for a while before continuing to your actual destination
Liminal in this context means the place in the image feels like it's between dream and reality, or between this world and the next.
yeah this is creepy because its spooky and dimly lit and looks like a cartel is about to execute you
but why do zoomers have to use pants on head moronic words like liminal ziminal space it doesnt need to be explained something is either scary or it isnt
the backrooms empty office space isnt scary at all
/x/ came up with the current usage of 'liminal space' and it wasn't even about it being scary, it was just for image dumps of places with that sort of surreal feeling. Zoomers were the ones who started shitting their pants when they encountered the idea years later. Realistically they're probably just exaggerating the unsettling feeling they get from the images.
If you think simply having a word for it is bad, do not watch the literal hours zoomers made of SCP-style cringelore for the Backrooms.
It could, but also a apartment hallway is a liminal space, so the backrooms is literally a liminal space.
Why is it always swimming pools and water parks though, something about seeing water indoors that triggers these feelings in the subconscious?
I have no idea why, but I feel it too. When I see a picture like this I could swear I've been there before. It feels like a suppressed memory or a dream I had when I was a kid or something.
jesus christ shut the frick up
How about we let people speak freely what's on their mind in the only place that still allows it
based anon telling crayon eating bugmen to stfu when they start going on about how some gay meme image gives off "le heckin strange auras man" like it hasn't been said a billion times already
>samegayging this transparently
cringe
if you payed attention to the number of ips in this thread you'd realize you're a fricking moron, but whatever helps you cope
way to expose your samehomosexualry
imagine being this much of newbie kek
your level of delusion does not surprise me slightly
Unironically this homosexualry would go away if they touched grass. No amount of 8 hour essays on the nature of the backrooms will change the fact that they are just spring chickens.
I'm sorry you're angry and bitter and not having any fun. I'm sorry you feel actual, physical pain over what other people do. That doesn't seem like a healthy way to live. I wouldn't want to just exist as the reaction to other peoples' actions...... I hope you can find a way out.
>Look at how not angry I am. How above it all I am.
Black person, you still haven't refuted what I said: you lack life experience so you are convincing yourself that this shitty meme is peak horror. It isn't, you just don't know any better.
>Black person, you still haven't refuted what I said
?
I don't need to refute anything you said.
Why would I? We are not having an argument.
I don't need anything from you.
I am not obligated to concede anything to you.
I'm having fun with a subject.
You're not. You're angry, bitter, and sad. You're trying to change my behavior. You're obsessed with what I'm interested in. It hurts you. It causes you pain. You being in pain doesn't hurt me (though I feel sad for you). I have no intention of changing my behavior just because it hurts you, though.
I'm sorry you choose to live like this.
>Accuse others of your own faults
Alinsky 101. Ok, senpai, you're totally not mad.
>Accuse others of your own faults
?
Anon, I have no desire to change your behavior. I don't need anything from you. You need something from me. That's all there is to it. We aren't the same.
It's not peak horror, it's just a vague haunting oppressive feeling that lingers in some desolate areas, my dreams used to be full of it some years ago when I was even more depressed than now. You can get the same feeling from hearing train whistles and fog horns in the distance, or at least I do
I used to have them at 14 and at 15 my parents made me work minimum wage as a dishwasher. Not even a burguer flipper, just the boy who scrubs plates, the grease off the grill, takes out the trash and so on. That somehow cured my depression and I've never had an existential crisis or an emotional response to everyday objects ever since. My point is that this oversensitivity to common landscapes is just a product of idleness. Maybe now I'm a souless golem, who knows? I used to be depressed as well when I realized my degree was worthless (finance but from a state college, so I didn't make any connections because I'm autistic and my only hope was a CPA or a rope) but when I got my 9 to 5 and I larped as a normie all these feelings of inadequacy went away in a heartbeat.
i hate to break this to you anon but those heckin weird vibes those images are giving is something called an emotional response.
There is nothing strange or paranormal about it, believe it or not, in fact, feeling emotions in response to things is just a normal everyday thing to normal functioning human beings and posting about it doesnt make you special!
Nobody said there was anything paranormal or special about it. The discussion was about why those images evoke certain feelings in so many people. Keep projecting, normalBlack person.
>this image with otherworldly qualities invoking feelings of familiarity but not quite reflecting reality seems really familiar but distant and i cant place my finger on it
yes quite profound if I say so myself, truly a only a midwit would disagree
>yes quite profound if I say so myself, truly a only a midwit would disagree
no one said it was profound, just interesting. why the sarcasm? are you even able to articulate why it makes you feel uncomfortable? what triggers your emotional response? do you not wonder yourself?
if you haven't picked up on this already, no the discussion isn't interesting, not intersting at all. I can't even tell you how many times I've seen this same post
on this site, which is crazy because its literally a rehash of uncanny valley posting. this topic attracts the least interesting most easily wowed unthinking people who should honestly just stick to fricking reddit.
>if you haven't picked up on this already, no the discussion isn't interesting, not intersting at all.
>I don't think it's interesting, therefore no one else is permitted to discuss it
didn't read the rest of your post lol
I'm going to continue discussing it as I please.
there really isn't anything you can do about it. Sorry it hurts you so much that you can't stop obsessing over it.
well maybe you should actually discuss it rather than getting butthurt at me calling you a homosexual
past bump limit btw
I think that's both an oversimplification, and an incorrect characterization. I did not say there was anything "paranormal" about it, just that it evoked those sorts of feelings.
Saying it is not "strange" is simply incorrect, however. That's a very basic description that's proven by the fact so many people want to talk about it. It's practically tautological. It's ok if you don't feel that way though, not every interest appeals to everyone.
You sound like a redneck/midwit trying to save face, but it's obviously too late at this point. Cut your losses, stop embarrassing yourself further
why are you even in this thread? get the frick off my Cinemaphile you monstruous homosexual.
>Mods
>Mods
>MOOOOOOOODS
What's wrong, can't handle being told that your taste is shit and you are a midwit?
He didn't say anything about mods. Here's the full text you're replying to:
>why are you even in this thread? get the frick off my Cinemaphile you monstruous homosexual.
At no point did he make any appeal to authority to have you removed. He simply questioned why someone as damaged as you would willingly remain.
You're too autistic to understand subtext, which is why you think an empty hallway is deep.
It's actually long
It was a rhetorical question since you not only dislike, but patently misunderstand the concept, but you predictably miss the point once again.
Being that filtered raises the point that you're only being humiliated again and again.
Good sense would suggest you step out from your obvious limits and start by reading the wiki entry on liminal spaces, for instance.
Please, spare the embarrasment of typing like a redditor and just point at your 15 hour video essay. You talk like a redditor and you are begging for all naysayers to leave because you are a b***h. Are you that insecure?
>Are you that insecure?
lmao that projection
you're literally in a thread for a thing you don't like obsessing over people who won't stop liking things because you want them to
And you're in a thread talking about me instead of the thing that you supposedly want to talk about. How bad do you want my wiener, boy?
>And you're in a thread talking about me
because I've never seen a meltdown as bad as yours, though. you want me to change what i'm doing SO BAD and I just won't and that's making you EXPLODE lmao
why would anyone willingly do this lol, just be someone else's reflection
Anon, no one is telling you to change. Tell me, are you venting because your parents told you the same thing? Will it help if you told me what you could never tell them in the first place? Do you want my wiener?
Based
Very cringe. Why the anger? Can you even articulate it? Are you anything more than a reactionary npc lump?
quit being such a pretentious little homosexual
Your post didn't raise my opinion of you, actually it lowered it. I'm sorry you choose to live this way. I'm sorry you're not happy, and want others to be unhappy. There is a better life awaiting you.
>based, cringe, npc
NTA but can you ease on the catchphrases? What pisses me off from these sort of posts
Is that I'm old enough to remember art critics being mocked as beret-wearing, fart-sniffing homosexuals who would go on a 6000 word essay about a paint blob on a wall.
"This is how I feel. Me, Me, Me". Pardon the expression but this is chick shit. It wouldn't be out of place in Cosmo.
There's nothing fart-sniffing about that post, Black person. The topic of discussion is why that kind of imagery evokes such strange feelings.
>Wahh, Wahhh, I look at shitty 3d art and suddenly remember the trauma of when my ice cream fell on the beach.
What strange feelings, you sheltered nonce? It's called Saudade, when your monkey brain can't grok uncertainty and gives you a sense of unease. It's like Mandela all over - no Black person, there is no secret cabal to change elements of the past - you just missremembered.
This is a question to the thread: how little life experience do you have that a shitty 3d pic of water and rooms gives you an anxiety attack? The way you communicate, again, is all me, me and me. That's what drives me crazy.
Repeat after me, kids: Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar.
>It's called Saudade, when your monkey brain can't grok uncertainty and gives you a sense of unease. It's like Mandela all over
You manage to be utterly wrong about three different concepts: saudade, liminal spaces and Mandela Effect.
You'd do well to stop commenting and educate yourself regardless of your worldview, which btw currently seems unimaginative and provincial.
Your seething tone is typical of ppl who don't grokk certain concepts and get frustrated/try to shift blame to those who do.
Chill out.
C'mon son, now I know you're just hamming it up. No one can be this much of a homosexual without self awareness.
Again: dealing with your own lack of imagination and lack of information (you clearly have no idea what the three concepts mentioned above mean) by trying to shift blame to others only reinforces the fact that you're stupid.
It's nobody's fault but yours: you're a random lowest common denominator who got triggered by a discussion outside your grasp.
Anon, I know you had to look them up on the wiki in between responses. You can only say "no u" because you really have no idea. In the end we both know you're a little embarrased that you're trying to sell "muh liminal spaces" as some intellectual tour de force so you're trying to bring everyone down. It is funny that you're acting up as a turtlenecked, beret-wearing snob but you just sound a redditor. Also, don't worry, I won't post a basedjak to illustrate how you sound. I'm above that.
>I know you had to look them up on the wiki in between responses.
You don't "know": you assume so because you're ignorant yourself.
This is called the Dunning-Kruger Effect: the attempt to measure general knowledge through your individual ignorance.
What you said about "saudade" (among other absurdities) is so ridiculous you should literally just delete your comment and move on.
Ok senpai, if you're so right how about you give me the dissertation here and now. If you don't, then you're just a little b***h that only knows how to be a contrarian. You are not smart, senpai, you're on Cinemaphile after all.
>kneejerk NPC response
Yep.
Here's the post you're trying to defend, in case you were hoping everyone forgot:
>jesus christ shut the frick up
Sorry, you already excluded yourself from ever having a serious thing to say.
I do too actually but I can concretely link it to both almost forgotten memories of going to the local gym pool and water parks as a kid, and also to water levels in old video games like super mario 64. It's a very late 90s/2000s aesthetic imo
The very first time I ever heard the phrase "liminal space", it was with an attached image that looked similar to the one you posted, and it was simultaneously posted to multiple boards (which alone caused a minor stir, but the threads were quite interesting. It had bright white gleaming concrete walls, but an open ceiling showing an empty blue sky, and crystal blue water. It was a really evocative image and the feel that really describes it to me is "alien". It made me imagine some entire massive city on some distant desert planet, all intertwining multiple levels of inscrutable white structures and highways and overpasses, all for no human-discernible purpose, lost to time. There's some part of our brains associated with "awe", it's a component of religious experiences, psychedelic experiences, etc. Certain shapes and imagery seems to be able to touch on this and provoke feelings and sensations we can't articulate with descriptions grounded in our human reality.
Water is inherently mysterious and there's also the deserted public space aspect: liminal spaces are often those usually crowded areas (amusement parks, school hallways, waterparks, shopping malls) that have a different atmosphere when there's no one around, often one that's opposed to their usual vibe. They go from busy/noisy/cheerful to quiet in an eerie way.
Liminal spaces aren't just empty hallways or whatever the frick. They're areas that appear real but have a surreal and dreamlike quality of them. Pic related. Also like another anon mentioned with The Shining. Some of the hotel just doesn't make physical sense, like the window in Ulman's office
boomer minds literally just cannot comprehend these concepts
I thought one of its main origins was areas from old videogames that look empty and weird/surreal because of tech limitations at the time
Probably yes, like back in those old shooters where once you had killed every enemy but you still had not found the keycard or whatever you needed to reach the exit, you might spend hours just walking back and forth around an eerie now empty and quiet game world.
And before that there was stuff like Myst, which I never played but lots of people were into.
I see how someone can be unsettled by this but this image evokes literally zero emotion from me outside of "its ugly" because of the intentionally gross color grading.
It might just be a personal thing. I've always enjoyed these type of spaces. Also I used to do electrical work for commercial buildings so I can't tell you how many hours I've spent alone in places like in your pic, minus the ugly yellow tint.
Theres a video essay on Naissance, a game about liminal spaces that was made before the trend even started. The guy a good point that what was creepy about the structure was that it seem like it was made by someone that didn't understand the practical side of why a building os made, staits in places that dont belong, doors you cant reach, hallways in weird places, things like that.
>I used to do electrical work for commercial buildings so I can't tell you how many hours I've spent alone in places like in your pic
Maybe this has something to do with it. Zoomers haven’t had as much work experience and associated empty places with covid or something? Because when i was in my twenties i would hang around empty places at night and I was never like “AAAH IM GOING INSANE” it was just empty. I look at this shit and it really doesn’t evoke any type of emotion out of me
Its not a zokmer thing because i felt the liminal space vibe back when myspace was a thing. Im sure at some point some office worker in the 1940s walking in an empty building felt something similar.
I'm 40, and I find liminal spaces to be eerie. Like back when I would walk around my high school at night, or being the only one still working at the office after everyone has left in the evening, and you hear the hum of the ventilation system and stuff.
that's not what a "liminal space" is, though. a liminal space is like an entryway or exit, not an empty building.
Sure, in the old sense, but I'm using it in the new post-meme sense. The mixture of meanings probably happened in part because "liminal space" can also mean "on the threshold between the real and the unreal", or between different dimensions.
I don't care what zoomers think.
I'm 32 and the definition you're arguing against with this post exactly fits the original definition, you're just a brainlet that thinks it's exclusively an architectural term.
See
I'm old as shit and I experienced that feeling very young when my dad would have to do overtime at work alone and he'd bring me to the office with him, it'd be just the two of us in an empty office building full of computers and conference rooms and stuff. For the reference this was sometime around when the 2nd gen of Pokemon was coming out because that's the thing I remember looking up on one of the office computers, since we didn't have a PC at home yet
>Then we tried harder to get into one of the doors, and that's when someone said something like "Get out of here."
Frick that's creepy.
Junji Ito (Uzumaki, Tomei) named one of his books after it!!!FACT!!!
Dumb frick, "liminal" was a word before you zoomers invented this shitty YouTube horror genre
lowkey not really, same as the 'smart'phone before the iPhone or what's going on with ''''AI'''' now
i literally feel nothing looking at this. i just don't get it
Also the backrooms concept really just appeals to people who like to explore abandoned structures. Me and my friends had a real backrooms experience, once. There was this old building in our town that looked like a psychic reading building, but it was abandoned. One night we got in and explored it. Upstairs were a few doors that looked like apartments, but the place was trashed beyond belief. Though, when we tried the unit doors they were locked. We didn't think anyone was there so we explored for like 2 hours just chatting and shooting the shit. Then we tried harder to get into one of the doors, and that's when someone said something like "Get out of here."
We fricking sprinted out, anyone who was living there was homeless or crazy.
>fluorescent lightbulbs
>tungsten yellow colored picture instead of fluorescent green tint
Your mind subconsciously notices things like taht
>the window in Ulman's office
Any other movie:
>Goofs: the window in Ulman's office
This overrated piece of shit:
>Muh Kubrik genius
Bet that homosexual literally fricked up, and his dick-lickers have been herp-durring about it ever since.
>Bet that homosexual literally fricked up
You lose.
>gonna cum because Q-brick!
Doubling down on the moronation? Always a losing strategy, but you do you.
>Liminal spaces aren't just empty hallways or whatever the frick
If we want to be extremely pedantic a liminal space by definition is just a place that isn't a destination, like hallways. The media that utilizes them for effect typically enhances their hallmark features, such that that they're very spartan in their design, lack uniqueness, tell very little in terms of story on their own and often don't reveal much about their surroundings because they often lack things like windows.
The Shining used them for great effect not just in the design in the hotel itself but also the hedge maze. All you have in that maze is hedges, the ground and the sky. There's no decorations hanging off the walls, there's no windows to let you see where you are in the maze and so on. All you have is a bunch of space connecting the entry to the exit or the center. This creates a great effect when Jack is chasing Danny through it because you can't tell how close Jack is to catching Danny.
Do you think that Reddit is when people speak intelligently in coherent sentences rather than just posting the same stale memes over and over again?
yes you phoneposting homosexual
well its more you making drawn out posts defending reddit fotm memes and conflating random things in cinema that are meant to be unsettling with le liminal video essay meme
also the spacing
but yes if you use this board to do more than shitpost youre doing it wrong newfriend
Liminal spaces don't have to have a dreamlike quality at all the literal definition is an area that serves as a transitional period.
Thats why hallways and empty kitchens are the stereotype because its easy to describe it.
You don't usually sit in a hallway in your house it just seems like a place you pass through.
Empty kitchens are transitional because they were made to be filled up but when its empty
This pic serves as something different that meets the criteria of liminal
There seems to be furniture to sit on but this seems like a place you only walk through and not actually stay in.
>put a sofa in a hallway
>watch zoomers shit themselves and die of a heart attack
More like backwombs for pissbabies lmao.
Often liminal spaces are defined by a type of hyper awareness: we step out of going through the motions mode and into a more focused perception. Sounds or the absence thereof, lights, colors etc
Im not an expert but I've watched enough liminal spaces so say that the dreamlike quality comes from it being liminal and not the other way around
zoomers start crying and shitting their pants if they spend 1 hour with no human contact
Boomers are afraid of simple things a dog could understand "oh no a scary man with a knife is walking towards me"
Later generation are scared of things a dog couldnt understand "this place im standing isnt what it seems to be, i might be trapped in a layer of hell, did i die?"
this.
the boomer mind just isn't as complexed or developed as that of the zoomer mind
>thinking anyone's mind in complex
You have way too much faith in humanity my friend
>Boomers are afraid of things Boomer media told them to be afraid of
>Zoomers are afraid of things that Zoomer media told them to be afraid of
FTFY
>Boomers are afraid of actual threats that are physically possible
>Zoomers are afraid of the schizo shit they made up in their own heads
checks out
Zoomies are scared of such shit because their brain cant process anything that isnt interactive and sherable, to them all of reality outside the screen is a 'liminal space', this alienating split is at the basis of theyr identity, thats where the feeling of being suddenly trapped in a pararel dimension comes from, they dont know how to process the non-augmented real, a fricking hallway scares them
>a fricking hallway scares them
When you go to hell you will enter from a hallway bro
Just remember that
you write like a zoomer
It's a hoax by zoomers to confuse old people
i guess that's fair they are currently under the sway of so many hoaxes by old people they might as well fight back a little
I don't find liminal spaces scary, but I think the fear comes from them being subtly surreal. They are places that are common and everyday, and mostly look normal, but something is slightly off. Kind of like a dream that is on the verge of becoming a nightmare.
>Am I autistic
No, you aren't autistic and that's the problem. GET THE FRICK OFF OF MY BOARD, Black person homosexual!
I would argue you’re normal and the liminal space gays are the morons
Its not just scary, its more like weird. Years ago (man like almost 15 years ago now) I used to walk around my huge high school alone because i used to help a club i was in clean up, sometimes i would leave at 7 or even 8 and there was no one around, not even janitors. The doors would open from the inside so i could just walk out and i would around the school in this large building with no one there and it felt like a combination of peaceful, weird and scary, its a very strange feeling. I really like liminal stuff because of this. Also if anyone likes this stuff i recommend playing Naissance, it used to be like 15 bucks now its free on steam.
I loved NaissanceE until I got to the desert, it's like all the tension evaporated and then seeing all the dumb little school project tech demos the guy put in at that point really took me out of the atmosphere. I would have liked it a lot better if it was more restrained. The 2001 monolith in the desert really got me and I think it might have been better if that was the only thing in the desert for you to find.
For the spergs who 'don't get it', the best way to understand it is probably to think about why people would associate any feels with a situation like this in the first place, then it becomes obvious.
Like humans being afraid of the dark makes sense, since so many predators can see so well at night, but we can't see shit. If we had no fear of that, nothing to put us on edge, we'd go bumblefricking around at night and get arse-raped by evolution.
Low lighting fricks with your vision, because everything is on the signal-noise threshold. One of the reasons military attacks traditionally occur during twilight hours, where long shadows and shit frick with your ability to identify movement, targets, and throw up false positives. The low hum of fluorescent lights is likewise doing the same shit to your hearing, limiting range and ability to identify approaching threats, distance, etc.
The similarity between a corridor with a bunch of doors and picrel is obvious. Many avenues of attack that you wont see coming soon enough, where an enemy in wait might see you coming just fine.
That's why shit like this just feels 'bad' or 'wrong' like you shouldn't be there, and your brain is telling you to GTFO.
Further, things not making logical sense, like "What the frick is a pool doing here?", and shit breaking physics fricks with your higher brain, is a distraction, and you're at an obvious tactical disadvantage in such an environment, especially when you're unfamiliar with it.
The solitude compounds the problem, but also makes the logic problem worse, because obviously someone built such a vast office area, maintains the literal infinity pool or whatever, so where are they? Are they hiding? Watching? Why?
The duality of Cinemaphile
now I want to read one from the boomer-tier horror defenders, if they are capable of writing anything understandable
>pool
That's a flooded subway you zoomer brain
lol "huge pool in an office", touch a job application
>his y2k office didn't have a swimming pool
Lmaoing at your life yuropoor
Wasn't referring to OP pic in particular moron, just an example of shit you see in Backrooms in general.
And you don't generally 'touch' job applications these days grandpa. A lot of that shit is electronic now. You can't even just walk in off the street and give them a good firm handshake these days, or didn't you know that? They'll just give tell you to google their company website and apply through that. How long have you been retired again?
Nice cope & backpedaling there, or more like e-scooter reversing you little shriveled broccoli, and don't even try to pretend touching isn't all you little gays do all day on your little ijerkoff screens, if you had to get a job the old way you'd get your hands crushed by a real man's handshake but more likely you'd piss and shit yourself and collapse on the floor beforehand because you'd have to traverse an empty hallway to get to the bossman's office
If you tried to get a job the modern way they'd find you dead on the floor of starvation a month later with "w w w dot" typed into the address bar of Internet Explorer.
Kek
>unexpected zoomer intelligence
Picunrelated but bottom right if anyone asks
>i can't imagine being alone
>pulls up cell phone to tik tok for 4 hours
You're just a no fun homosexual, like anyone who makes fun of horror. Obviously it's not real so you have to want to be scared by it, to a degree.
It's uncanny valley. It subliminally informs you that something isn't right, and it makes you uncomfortable. In a way, it's a much more subtle and interesting type of horror than playing on the primal fears.
>It's uncanny valley. It subliminally informs you that something isn't right, and it makes you uncomfortable.
trannies are the liminal spaces of people
It's more like "oh shit, I saw something similar in my dreams". I don't find it scary either, I even find it comfortable, but if some omega level homosexuals are scared of clowns or dolls, why not this?. You could justify it by saying most of the supernatural encounters happen in liminal spaces like corridors or highways, or that people now are more scared of silence and loneliness. Makes way more sense than being scared of a goddamn clown, one of my best friends is a clown and he's the nicest guy ever, he's never touched or killed someone.
>people now are more scared of silence and loneliness.
I'm the opposite, but that's because I grew up where I owned those spaces and you never relied on anyone. Quiet means nothing is going wrong. The abandoned farmhouse isn't scary because it's mine. The abandoned well is mine. The road cut through the brush into the wild forest is mine. No animal, man or monster stands above me in the places that belong to me.
This is baseline. The kind of trooned out nonwhites that write this shit on /x/ are terrified of being left alone with their thoughts because they are counting every second until they hang from a rope.
I love places like pic related. The old well, all that. But I'd be lying if I said the still dead of night isn't unsettling, sometimes. Too many stories.
To be fair, that's only the case as long as your farmstead exists in the context of a larger society that defends against animals, bandit gangs, and rampaging armies. In a Wild West frontier kind of environment it might be different.
>In a Wild West frontier kind of environment it might be different.
My family has been here since it was the Wild West. We were killed by Indians and the survivors enslaved, then traded off and eventually back to freedom. There's always been danger, but not from your own things. You hear a strange truck pull into your driveway and lights wash across your window at 2 in the morning, it's worse than looking into any old house. You hear a large caliber gunshot on your land and know nobody should be there. You see smoke from a large fire you know you never set.
Those are the things that ramp up the adrenaline and make you reach for the protection of a reliable firearm.
When you've had to run off tresspassers, methers, 500 pound wild hogs and everything else since you were 5 years old, you really don't give a frick about the rest. The ruins of 1920 homesteads are to rural folks like the ruins of Rome were to the high middle ages. Seeing them gave comfort and memories of a romanticized time.
Have some OC though. Once upon a time, every quarter had a farmhouse. We once had 4, now 3 because wicked men burned one of them down. Two molder slowly into the earth as they have since before I was born and one is a well-maintained cheery bright and comfy place my parents use to get away from it all. This is an abandoned one.
Based post anon, thank you. Different people are afraid of different things. After living through the 90's in Chelyabensk I just don't give a shit about a spooky 2deep4u empty hallway that fart sniffers try to convince each other is an intellectual experience.
Nature can't be a liminal space, nature is just nature. Artificiality is a must
Zoomers being zoomers.
Someone takes a mundane and breaks it down into seeing it in a new way. Neat
Zoomers run that shit into the ground, have to be the most liminal space person possible for internet fame. Ruined.
I wouldn't say the photos themselves are scary, but just sort of an out of place, uncanny valley type of feeling. Like something is off. What would be scary is actually being in the place where most of these photos happen, because the locations that convey this type of feelings are probably ones where you'd get arrested or shanked by a homeless squatter.
Kind of like seeing a man who cut his wiener off in a dress trying to enter women's spaces in public
You just think about this all the time? In situations where nobody was talking about it? That can't be good.
It's not fear per say, more...discomfort. Like something familiar but no quite right and empty and kinda sad.
>per say
it's more about what isn't there than what is there
this is not a hard thing to understand
It's a meme, no one has that fear.
For me it's the fact that the place used to teem with life and activity, and now it's abandoned, never to be populated again. A place forgotten by God.
Chungking Express and Fallen Angels
There's an Youtube channel called "Decaying Midwest" that's basically just a guy wandering through abandoned towns and buildings in the Midwest documenting environments like this
Sounds like my cup of tea, will look it up, thanks.
*sips Monster* GTA 3, now that was a trip. The whole game feels like a surreal experience. If Rockstar came out and said that the game actually takes place in hell or purgatory I would believe them. There is something so dark about some of the missions in 3 that was toned down in Vice City and San Andreas. Also the cut content because of 9/11, the Donald Love cannibalism and occult parties and the mission with the suicide bombers.
>The whole game feels like a surreal experience
It really does. Which is why it is my favorite game of all time
>Mist being used for rendering purposes. Also for ambience of a neo noir crime drama and to signify that there is someting fricking scary in the streets of Liberty City and most of the time it's you.
You don't get this type of creativity in newer games.
>For me it's the fact that the place used to teem with life and activity, and now it's abandoned, never to be populated again. A place forgotten by God.
That's how I feel when I walk around Marley Station Mall
>Marley Station Mall
Dead malls are definitely eerie
Exactly how I'd feel too.
A subway? I'm more afraid of being raped by hobos.
Once in Japan I was in the "skyscraper district" of Shinjuku, after hours, and this massive, massive business center that is usually teeming with life was completely devoid of people. It was surreal and amazing, I didn't want to leave. It wasn't just buildings, it was all those little accessories to buildings.. staircases, bridges, little verandas and arches and walkways and benches. It was absurd to think that this place that is usually crowded with a million people could empty out so quickly.
I honestly don't know what this shit is about. But if I had to guess when you find yourself in a man-made place that is completely deserted your instincts should be screaming danger. If you see anything inside that is alive, anything at all be it bugs or plants or fungi that should probably help with the unease.
It's not really 'liminal spaces' since a lot of the backrooms shit are empty office buildings or whatever rather than connecting passages or hallways.
Horror video games from way back in the day (let's use Silent Hill 1 as an example) often take places that you associate with bustling crowds of people and lots of movement/activity and then make them empty, creating a sense of unease. That's why hospitals and schools are very popular in horror settings. Shopping malls also work for this (and I guess office buildings would too) but I think schools/hospitals also benefit from being easy to integrate a spooky death/murder to create a curse or haunting.
I think the backrooms/liminal spaces meme also uses uniform and simplistic spaces which help create a sense of immensity. When everything looks the same and you don't have any real landmarks, it is difficult to conceptualize the size or scale of the location you are in and the human mind tends to err on the side of larger rather than smaller. Featureless or uniform rooms/halls make it easy to get lost and contribute to a labyrinthine feeling as well.
They aren't especially spooky and the parts that do make them spooky have been used by other people for decades at least.
The japanese are the most likely but their bug brains wouldn't allow them to keep the area empty which would completely destroy the entire aesthetic
There is a backrooms movie so expect movies to add in a few seconds of a liminal POV shot
yes
you have to be very gay to understand the fear behind an empty room with zero threats inside of it
only zoomers know this fear since they are the gayest generation of gays to gay and are too soft to live.
I don't think there's much to get. It's just the vague odd feeling you get when you see a deserted place that's normally full of people, like when you arrive at large airports at night and they're closed down and empty. That's it. Also it's not a "new" thing really, the movie "The Langoliers" basically is founded on this concept, and that was an early 90's movie
Was Stevie off the wagon when he wrote the langoliers?
It was pretty decent for a tv-tier movie. The monster at the end was kind of shit, bad era for CG, but the basic concept was nice. The whole thing of them trying to figure out the rules of the world was kino. And yeah it definitely evokes that vaguely unsettling creepy "forgotten and left behind by the world" feeling. Literally being trapped in a frame of reality that's about to be deleted.
Been over a decade since I saw it, but I thought the movie was really good and tense until the reveal, which sunk it like a torpedo
There was a manga that I started reading a few years ago (and dropped for some fricking reason, probably hiatus) that had a similar premise.
A girl could abjure herself outside of time and the whole world around her was the second she jumped out. She could spend as much time as she wanted there and then she could get back and the world would resume as if nothing had happened. There were some rules to the world, but the main conflict was her brother getting kidnapped and her being forced to get the kidnappers outside of reality for whatever reason.
You're normal, you're just not a moronic teen that reads the worst horror stories the internet has to offer all day, and that's more than okay. In fact, it's preferred.
total zoomed death
>dude what if the entire film was about a character stuck in a desolated place where nothing is happening
>and our target audience is zoomers with ADHD
This homie didn't watch The Navidson Record lmao
An entire episode of The Last of Us took place in an abandoned mall
>capitalized
>paying for media
AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
Somebody has to PAY for the movie to get made in the first place so you can pirate it though
yes it pleases me to bankrupt the israelites in this way
Won't you think of the heckin investorinos!!!
I find liminal spaces extremelly comfy and relaxing. especially the "poolrooms"
The beginning of A Quiet Place
>Loudly mumbles to himself in a corner
>You got games on your phone?!
the Langoliers already came out
Slightly flooded places are so cool
They should hire a plumber.
damn, they really let their creativity run wild when designing that building.
Maybe i can charge people to look at my basement when it rains a lot
Remember all those kino vids of that dude using a rake to go clear out storm drains during big storms. All the drivers were so stoked to see him
It was already exploited in a lot of movies you zoomer moron
"liminal spaces" is a zoomer thing and zoomers don't have any money. there's nothing to capitalize on.
damn boomers are fragile af
I'll answer your question with this, and ask you another question: Why hasn't picrel been made into a video game?
I find it weird I've never heard of it before even though it's a Ruskie film. Seems like the kind of thing sci-fi/fantasy gays I know would appreciate. It's not, fricking, bad - at all.
At first it just seems derivative, but has cool plot twists that result in a nice piece of work overall. Visuals are very well done, downright fricking gorgeous at times, and range from trippy fantasy art to 'Backrooms' creepy.
Best thing about it though is the bad guy. One of the best villains I've seen in a long time with a pretty epic motivation. As well as the thing happens that I love to see most when it comes to villains in movies, but I guess I'll spoil that later in this thread instead of here.
Noticed it's free on multiple streaming sites like Amazon and Tubi with other movies of lower quality that I certainly wouldn't consider as worthy of my time:
https://tubitv.com/movies/714258/coma
The English dubbed performances seem a little clunky, especially during exposition, and original version is better in that regard.
It's isn't obvious from this clip because you don't get the wide tracking shot like when they first walk in, but they are in a room that is an amalgam of an icy submarine docking bay, and a factory floor "under the water". It's trippy shit, like when guy slides off sub 'into' the water:
They do a very Backrooms-esq swimming pool hallway later on too.
wtf I love russia now??
>It's not, fricking, bad - at all.
What did he mean by this?
I have never seen the shining.
Dont, its just 3 hours of people shining shoes
>The Shining
>The Langoliers
What other liminalkino?
It's a pretty low budget affair, but check out the movie Last Shift. It's about a woman starting to see weird shit while working a late night shift alone at an old, soon to be condemned police station. While it's not explicitly "liminal", the police station set and the way it's shot/used in the story add an surreal quality that creates a similar atmosphere imo.
Thanks for the recommendation, anon
Session 9, set inside abandoned insane asylum. Some scenes in Jacob's Ladder too
Control, if you don't mind it being vidya.
I liked the art style and general idea, but it never hooked me.
IS THAT
>AIEEEEEE
A FRICKING
>AIEEEEEEEE SAVE MEEEE
EMPTY OFFICE ROOM
>AIEEEEEEEE SAVE ME Black personMAN
>this terrifies boomers and boomer larpers
>literally one of the worst movies ever made (and boomers knew it)
Don’t try so hard
I only know this clip from the opening of Malcom in the Middle.
Titanic kinda has that when Rose and Jack are in the deck when the ship begins sinking
Someone already mastered it
Where are the sharks
Frick that hit me like a flashback, I know I've played that game
>this unironically terrifies zoomers
Boomer here. First time I felt this feel was walking through my high school after hours. Place just seemed 'wrong' and unfamilar without any people in it. This is decades before Backrooms was ever a thing.
Mentioned it to my friends with me because I thought it was cool and kind of enjoying it. They said they didn't feel anything. Poor homosexuals were missing out if you ask me.
So when I first saw Backrooms shit I was on it like Lindsay Lohan on a heroin-coated dick. Totally the shit, I don't care what anyone says.
Probably some variation in sensitivity to it, or to continue the 'evolutionary' line of reasoning, not every monkey in the troupe would need to have it for the species to survive. You only need one of them to be on early alert. Not to mention you're actually better off as a species if you have the occasional monkey who is less cautious and does something stupid. "Okay guys, it's not a good idea to stick your dick in an alligator's mouth. We all got that?"
Also funny how that principle is still in play to this day, whether it's sticking a fork in a toaster, or using a screwdriver to stop a plutonium core going supercritical.
what age did you cut your wiener off?
I enjoyed learning that the wide shots were practical effects, done in the simplest and dumbest way possible
>why has no movie capitalized on the "liminal spaces" craze?
Because in 2023 most "liminal spaces" IRL are filled with gay guys having sex
A cure for wellness has some liminal scenes to it
I loved the cinematography of that movie. And the setting. Those old-school hospital style tiled walls just evoke this kind of eerie feeling. And the somewhat subtle sickening green tone.
Like what? I hope you're not talking about the set design, lmao
Because it's too stupid even for shitty writers.
The first Half Life had a lot of liminal space-ish game design. All that exploring of the nearly abandoned underground base.
Some shots in the godfather look kind of liminal
Vivarium (2019), Relic (2020), I'm Thinking of Ending Things (2020)
>Vivarium (2019)
Yeah. Leaves me wanting more of the surreal frickery at the start though. That shit was creepier than anything else all on its own.
this is a zoomer meme and zoomers don't pay money for movies
Zoomers can't torrent, they literally pay more for movies than people have done for 2 generations
It's just that it's streaming services instead of theater tickets
You mean a couple hundred discord troons trying to groom kids through their shitty horror stories? have a nice day shitskin homosexual
Because it's fricking dumb
>50 minutes of a camera wandering through empty spaces
>credits roll
That would actually be better than what Hollywood would be likely to do with it in reality. Half of them would be like gays ITT who don't even 'get it', so:
>car chase
>diversity so rooms full of Black folk
>strong woman takes charge and knows exactly where to go for no reason
>everyone follows her lead for no reason
>lesbian love interest
>rainbow flags on yellow walls celebrating Pride Month
>entities validate how awesome she is before letting her on her way
Yeah, it'd be a good watch if you're stoned or something but I don't think that's really entertaining. I'd rather watch something with all the tropes you've just said because there's something actually going on instead of watching someone lifelessly walk through empty rooms.
its literally zoomers latching onto a youtube algorithm meme because they have no personality
remember when the annoying b***h in class would say that she had trypophobia or whatever (afraid of holes)
yeah its that but on a mass scale
I'd say Grave Encounters 1&2 fit. They end up stuck in some hallway asylum purgatory.
>IS THAT... AN EMPTY OFFICE?
>NO PHONES, NO TIKTOK, NO ONLYFANS?
>AAAAAAAAAAHHH SAVE ME IM GOING INSAAAAANE
zoomers are fricked up when an empty office is the scariest thing they can think of
Just like the gothic aesthetic and setting was based on the decay of the gilded age, this is just a new gothic aesthetic is based on the decay of the 80s and 90s prosperity.
If only could make this concept a reality, I'd pay money to see it. The only thing that comes close is Lost River (2014) simply because Detroit is just Mogadishu transplanted to the US.
looks like condemned criminal origins
How has no one mentioned this yet?
https://www.indiewire.com/features/general/the-backrooms-movie-17-year-old-director-a24-1234807277/
Oh damn, someone actually tried to make a movie out of the liminal space thing.
you can't just CGI an empty room and have it look good so no one at hollywood cares
Years and years ago I read a short story about this. Protagonist is in a parking garage on the way to an appointment and decides to take the stairs. He walks down a number of flights - no door, no exit. He walks down some more - still no way out. He backtracks and climbs back up - the door he came in no longer exists. He's trapped in an infinite stairwell. Shit was legitimately terrifying.
Been into this kind of shit long before Backrooms:
Also the appeal of shit like Silent Hill games, not just spoopy because spoopy, but deserted urban environment, visible decay, etc.
They're literally making le backrooms cinematic universe
Im more into rural and urban decay tbh, Southern Gothic Horror like Texas Chainsaw and urban gothic like Candyman are frickin baller.
The real question is why does stuff like Backrooms make people who aren't into it so angry? Look at this thread, people are literally SEETHING about a semi-popular youtube video and writing huge paragraphs about how it's stupid. Just go watch the horror movies you like, stop obsessing over this and just don't watch it, it's not that hard to hit "don't recommend this video" and never have it affect you in any way
hey just mirin your meme
reminded me of this, i made this in 2010 and i don't think i've posted it more than once
I'm an actual oldgay. I was there when the first edition of Big Brother aired. When everyone went crazy for reality tv. I was of the few that was saying how this shit was killing tv, how it was for the lowest common denominator, etc. And you know what homosexuals like you told me back then? "Well, no one is getting hurt. What do you care? It's not like you're forced to watch it".
Do you think we're better off now, anon? If shit keeps being pumped out, you have to call a spade a spade.
The morons who don't get liminal spaces are 100% on the spectrum and can only conceptualize the world on a purely objective basis. It's not "AIEEE EMPTY ROOM", it's the combining of mundane reality and surrealist, dreamlike elements. How is this hard to understand?
Ummmm back the frick off????
What year is it?
what is that place? is it meant to have water in it?
>jesus christ shut the frick up
Hollywood:
>ok but how can we inject Leftwing propaganda into it....OH I GOT IT!
>Protect Trans Kidz on backroom wall
Poseidon. There was a remake not to long ago as well.
The coolest thing about dreams is that it takes familiar surroundings like your yard and transforms them into something bigger and mysterious.
Feels like a reset when you wake up and appreciate how beautiful everything is
>achuawy you see liminal spaces are an allegory for being trans. Being in between worlds, seemingly normal but at the same time extraordinary. Let us have this. Liminal. Spaces. Are. Trans
>starts talking about trannies out of nowhere
You have to close all those troony porn tabs because it’s clearly rotting your brain
>pfft chud you criticizing people who are forcing their ideolgy into everything is worse than the people forcing their ideology into everything
>t. anti anti sjw
you're forcing 'your' ideology in here rn so...
A troony is literally a liminal creature in the real meaning of the word because it's in between male and female
Darkel and the hobos. The last remnant of the missions where you, allegedly, would have flown a plane into a skyscrapper.
I'm still amazed that they mentioned tulpas in an episode of the fricking DuckTales reboot, of all things.
Tulpas are an ancient concept from tibetan mysticism, it's why it was mentioned on twin peaks
This game captures the feel pretty well. I played it for awhile but never finished it because it started getting repetitive. Good fun for the first few days though.
well i've got news, good? bad? I don't know
https://www.dazeddigital.com/film-tv/article/58138/1/a24-backrooms-creepypasta-horror-directed-17-year-old-filmmaker-kane-pixels
the kids already made stuff thats on youtube, only watched the first one and it was pretty good quality.
Liminal Spaces are a meme
90% of Analog Horror is a meme
Battington and Urbanspook are the only good analog horrors and the latter makes zoomzooms and gays seethe because it's Problematic™ to have a depraved serial killer do things a depraved serial killer would do.
>Urbanspook
My man! I forgot about this channel.
because it's fricking boring and always has been
https://www.doomworld.com/forum/topic/134292-myhousewad/
Basically a forest for cityfolk utter moronation and a clear cry for help.
Wtf is going on in this thread?
Also check out this liminal space I found:
drowning is a specific threat
liminal spaces are purposely vague
They already did that with the Keymaker in Matrix Reloaded in 2003. He unlocks doors that allow you to enter empty passageways left behind by the programmers of the matrix, allowing you to travel from and to places that aren't actually next to each other.
The reason why the backroom shit was creepy was not because of the visuals, but the implication that we live in a simulation and can glitch through the floor to end up in some sort of dev test room with simplistic repetitive patterns and cut creatures that nobody was supposed to know the existence of. But now people are like "omg this bathtube is creepy"
A movie I detested but which does contain brief liminal spaces sequences is Candyman's 2021 sequel. It sucks but has a shot or two through eerie passages and corridors.
they're literally filming the backrooms movie as we speak
This shit isn't scary at all. I see this and think the job is nearly complete and I'm in a nice clean building doing finishing rather than pulling wire in rough in. When I enter the pool room all I can think of is how much fricking work it would have been to lay all that tile.
>those comments
Jesus what a pathetic bunch of Black folk
Focusing on "scary" is missing the point in several ways. Start by understanding a simple truth: being scared is subjective
I find those rooms comfy, exploring them would be fun, maybe I begin to panic if I get lost and have no food or water but that is different
Yes. In general, what is common to all liminal spaces is that they take ppl away from a literal, business as usual mindset. They elicit feelings, emotions and undefined sensations of varying degrees, just like a painting or a piece of music without lyrics/vocals
t. gonna end up slipping and dying in one of those areas and haunt it for eternity.
Only old people and women slip and fall. Any man who gets taken out by a slick surface deserves it.
Because just like the Zombie Apocalypse, Hollywood and many NPCs like in this thread don't understand this. Liminal Spaces are appealing to people disillusioned by this modern clown world. They fantasize instinctually about another nightmare world free of the madness of the modern world. A nightmare world which takes place in liminal spaces, so something that is familiar to the human mind, typically built only by humans, but completely devoid of any humans. We Zoomers project the loneliness we experience by being in an always online world back to the real world. There are absolutely no other people there. So what happens to you is completely dependent on your personality. Are you formidable enough to maybe find some comfyness like me in endless liminal spaces and wander around it like it's an Adventure? Or will you despair and turn crazy, think shadows chase and imagine hearing noises and run through it, searching for an escape, which doesn't exist. It's introverted Horror. Everyone experiences it differently. It took me 2 years to leave the backrooms. And because everyone will experience it differently, you can't make a movie about this.
Every once in a while we get someone who is genuinely, non-memeingly broken. Some people have really sad lives and they can't relate to other people at all. They were abused, or neglected, or something, and trying to lash out and spread that pain is all they have.
>Every once in a while
like two or three times a day
>I'm not mad, you're mad!
I don't understand. Do you think "I'm not mad, you're mad" is the button you press to "win the game" or something? No one's playing that game with you.
Do you think writing paragraphs pretending you're above it all makes you seem more or less like you're asshurt?
>Do you think writing paragraphs pretending you're above it all
Do you find you often feel this insecure reading complete sentences?
Are you answering me with a question because I did it first and you're not as smart or original as you claim? or are you just thirsty for this dick right here?
You were acting insecure that I "write in paragraphs" so I was just asking if that was normal for you. Sorry if that upset you further.
>Liminal spaces don't have to have a dreamlike quality at all the literal definition is an area that serves as a transitional period.
That's why I never quite liked that term for it. Or maybe I just like something that isn't served best by that term. When we used to discuss the weird images a few years ago there wasn't really a focus on the whole "transitional" element or the specific necessary inclusion of doorways/connections to other rooms, it was just a more generalized appreciation for odd architecture that evoked a sense of subtle, indescribable awe. Somewhere along the line the "liminal spaces" term came into play, followed by the objection that some content then didn't fit that limitation.
>it was just a more generalized appreciation for odd architecture that evoked a sense of subtle, indescribable awe.
We used to call that non euclidean geometry in the old boomer days.
Nice backpedalling there, bro. You keep harping about being so enlightened and anyone that calls you an autistic fart sniffer that doesn't see the forest for the trees gets a tirade from you. You reek of the same insecurities that plagued you in high school.
anon you're really just boring now
>crying_brainlet_wojak.gif
Stop samegayging.
I don't know if this fits. I don't really understand the details of what makes a liminal space. There's this Robin Williams movie, Toys. That has to me as a kid were a lot of unsettling interiors and exteriors. You know just the sets made me uneasy when I was young.
Suddenly reminded me of Beetlejuice, where they step outside their front door and it's just sand worm hell with no elaboration.
This is more dreamcore
the bathroom itself isn't a liminal space and its unrealistic for it to be built somewhere like this hence the dreamlike quality
>the bathroom
That's a bedroom. Does what you said still apply?
yes since it is still a "ending location" and not transitory it would be dreamcore due to how everything is laid out and considering the bed closes into a duck
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Holy shit this board is sleeping on this.
right here bruh
It should go a little further with the concept bc the characters rush through the companies corridors. That sequence were they find the guy with the lambs was the most liminal sequence
Highly recommend checking out this little flick if you guys haven't seen it. Very low key creepy "what if we just took this odd premise of warped space and saw what happened".
Apparently all the dialogue was improvised, but I promise it's not as bad as that makes it sound
One thing liminal spaces need is a sense of movement and going through places, whereas Coherence (which is good btw) is more or less restricted to a limited area
Liminal spaces are more linked to agoraphobia than claustrophobia
I was once exploring this empty cabin in the woods. Not so much a cabin as a little rest station in a campground, really. But a small wooden shack deep in the trees. One empty room, just a single wooden beam in the center for support. I poked around it a bit, walked around the beam once, and went outside, and for some stupid reason because gripped by this idea that I needed to go back inside and walk back around it in the opposite direction to "undo" what I'd just done, or else.. something. I knew it was dumb but I just couldn't stop thinking about it, and I've wondered if this kind of primordial fear ever ended up as superstitions for ancient people.
>don't walk around that tree the wrong way or you'll end up in the fairy realm!
The dream red room in twin peaks was the original liminal space to be described as such, it's where like half of the lore and imagery comes from
The Langoliers kinda does.
Any movie where they empty out a city area or big building like an airport will give you that creep factor.
The Quiet Earth is a classic of that kind of thing.
Old dawn of the dead with the elevator music playing in the empty mall
>The Quiet Earth is a classic of that kind of thing.
Gonna check that out now. I was thinking about The Omega Man, but dirty post-apoc cities are a dime a dozen, not quite the same as one that's just mysteriously empty.
This is really stretching the premise, but there's an episode of the 90s Outer Limits that touches on that "something completely simple feels wrong for reasons we can't explain" feeling, where everyone looks up at the sky and for some reason the moon is much brighter than usual, and they're trying to figure out why.
I accept your concession. Gotcha there, every reply you make after this now will just be you seething that you lost.
>conceed, seethe
It's ok, sam, we all know that you're just elated sempai noticed you.
Shills who get posted here by their bosses have a roughly two week shelf-life before they crack. Then they literally go on these thread rampages just trying to counter-sign any anons says.
He'll be carted out of Shareblue Mission Control on a gurney before the end of the day.
This is the post that always starts the breakdown:
Standard shitlib "can't stand not being able to silence anybody at will" that they enjoy in their controlled spaces.
This fruit's nightmare scenario isn't a liminal space, it's here. Where a bunch of people he thinks are scum can say whatever the frick they like and he can't do shit about it. He's in his hell right now, with us. And his foothold in a blue city depends on his being able to handle it, other-wise he can't make rent and all his liberal brethren forget he exist the second he has to slink off to a cheap red city to live as a barista or some gay shit serving fat, jolly entitled country folk (who he also hates).