American Horror Stories: Backrooms Is REALLY Bad

[@acethetics3878]

i kinda hate the idea of tthe backrooms being a hell for bad people that need to confess. For me, the idea that anyone can just accidentally clip in with little to no way out is infinitely more terrifying

[@Meanytang]

no matter who you are, how good or bad you'll end up there

[@finpin2622]

Right! Like, the idea of just accidentally slipping into this place that doesn’t “want” anything from you is more terrifying because it means there isn’t a way to get out. And there isn’t a way to avoid it. Infinitely more frightening than knock-off-hell

[@williamhanekom9882]

For real. The backrooms isn't a place that serves a higher purpose, it's an anomalous series of spaces that exists beyond our understanding. Just implying that it's a place where bad people go is entirely missing the point. If this had just been about an nice average person who's entire life was ruined by falling into the backrooms, that would be enough. You could easily show flashbacks of the people they loved and the memories they had, but have them slowly being warped by the madness and isolation overtaking the protagonist. Losing their mind and health in these empty spaces until there is nothing left...

[@dredvax]

​@williamhanekom9882 what you just claimed what "isn't" the backrooms is literally what the backrooms originally was, not a discount modified SCP #2

[@finpin2622]

@@dredvax the original backrooms was a single textpost, it never was supposed to serve a higher purpose?

[@adrianneguinzo]

It's sad because you just know that whoever wrote this doesn't really have an interest in the backrooms. They just studied it for the show.

[@KenLieck]

More likely a writer came in with a great idea/script and the execs didn't get it, so this sludge is what came out in the end. That's Hollywood for you in a nutshell.

[@aNaughtyFox]

Just like the very episode of Stories where the mum bought the murder house to create a game. They did it themselves with the backrooms. Most I know about them is from a few video games and mostly the comment section from there, but even I know it's not that what was portrayed in that episode.

[@tonypeppermint5329]

Damn shame.

[@tonypeppermint5329]

​@@aNaughtyFoxYeah, the original post that came from 4Chan paints a massively different picture.

[@orionishi6737]

​@@tonypeppermint5329🙄🙄 it's all made up and people have been adding random stuff to the story forever. Like, why should their backrooms episode be a carbon copy of all the FAKE lore that people have made? That would have been more boring... We have years of that content already. It was an interesting twist and a good short story.

[@DrDeadsy42]

This seems like a mashup of a bad interpretation of Silent Hill with an even worse interpretation of the Backrooms.

[@nicolasdinant9616]

Exactly my thought watching it

[@yuffiehighwind]

Especially with him forgetting he killed his son

[@MumbleCraftSurvival89]

the thing with him going in and out of the backrooms doesn't really make sense to me either, I mean the whole point of the backrooms is that once you no-clip in, you almost certainly have no way back out, you're trapped.

[@DefyReality-ll2cg]

This!

[@grimaussiewitch]

I was thinking that too. You slip in by accident and you’re basically stuck there until you die or somehow get out. Also why is it that in the show they have bad people who are the ones to enter the backrooms? The horror is suppose to be that anyone slips in.

[@short_kingzz]

Sometimes u can no clip out but prob die anyway

[@BasedHoliday]

Can’t you eventually find a way out? Or even slip out by mere accident, which ultimately leads the person to be dead or something?

[@lilscenechick1995]

@@BasedHolidayYes. I believe it’s the first Kane Pixels video where the unfortunate cameraman almost “escapes” the backrooms, but the cord entity catches him. His camera falls out of the sky back into our world. So, if he wasn’t grabbed, he would have experienced skydiving without a parachute and just fallen to his death. There’s no telling where you’re going to be spat out if you DO manage to find a way. You could fall into the middle of the ocean, or find yourself at the summit of a mountain with no gear.

[@jadelee6555]

They really did not understand the concept of the Backrooms, feels like they just googled it and thought, "Huh...this looks kinda purgatory/hellish, let's just go with that". And the fact that all it took for the dude to get to the backrooms was to walk through a door, whereas for all the previous renditions of the backrooms an individual essentially glitched through reality (ie fell through the floor, slipper through a crack, ect)

[@tracey8121]

in its form it's indeed a purgatory, but with a catch - everyone can get nocliped despite of who they are, a child, a murderer, a senior, or just a person that was going to their work

[@johnpekkala6941]

We have seen this already. It was called Dragonball Evolution. That one was a VERY clear example of how a movie writer / producer can completley ruin a movie based upon an already existing concept, series ect by not doing proper research of the entire base story, characters, concepts and so before writing the final script.

[@Deepstab1]

The more people realize Ryan Murphy is a giant hack the better

[@CurseTheCosmos]

Agreed. His sensationalized mediocrity should be studied. That man has plagued every mode of scripted television he could get his grip on. Network television (which he STILL has a firm grip on), basic cable, and now - streaming. It never ends.

[@hehasnolips1371]

he doesn't write these episodes do some research before you make a hate comment

[@DylanRomanov]

I find myself having extreme interest and hope for all of his projects. Although most of his work is a huge letdown. There is definitely moments of brilliance sprinkled in the mess. Glee ,Nip/Tuck ,and AHS totally changed the cultural zeitgeist. But The writing just gets worse and worse with his shows. I think the initial ideas and aesthetics have potential just feels like there is never a finish line or a concept that is original.

[@yt.byliam]

@@hehasnolips1371 ​​⁠​⁠​⁠ and you’re acting as if this is the only show ryan murphy has created. murphy created the show. he is the showrunner and oversees what is made. murphy has a history and pattern of producing and running shows with insensitivity towards its topics. he has control over aesthetics, tone, writing, creative choices, etc. don’t tell people to do research without having done research on murphy and his role is tv production.

[@loganwood1112]

This is so true but it makes me sad because I love AHS and a lot of Ryan but he's slipping

[@tinmanne]

cannot wait for kane pixels’ backrooms movie with A24, it’ll definitely be miles better than this

[@Meanytang]

For real

[@RealBradMiller]

I was watching and kept inserting the lore from Kane in the episode. 😂😂😂 Didn't like this episode much at all.

[@TheRealRunningwolf1980]

Agreed,this was so bad it’s criminal

[@ryanb4940]

That’s no longer happening

[@Meanytang]

@@ryanb4940 what are u talking about lol Kane literally still talks about the progress

[@TheAlan136]

The idea of the Dad killing the son and not remembering doing it is a good horror concept. But it has nothing to do with the backrooms. Why did the writers tried to mesh those 2 together?

[@thecianinator]

Dad killing son is definitely an idea one or more of the writers already had before they even found out about the backrooms, and then some producer probably told them to make a backrooms episode and they just reused that idea they already had to fill it out.

[@mrconroy4672]

Silent hill 2 did it better.

[@foxeyboxey9829]

@@TheAlan136 The Dad did remember it, he just wasn't willing to admit to it. The way to enter to the Backrooms in this universe is by slipping away from your humanity/ social contruct enough to separate yourself from reality and fazing into the Backrooms. The further you keep yourself away and refusing to not admit to what you've done, the more you'll enter the Backrooms until you eventually end up there permanently until you admit. That's why at the end he doesn't leave because he refuses to admit truly what he did and he never will.

[@FloridaManVal]

im suprised its not about gay analingus and giardia.

[@ennayanne]

​@@FloridaManValYou can find that stuff on the internet if you want it so bad

[@43madnox]

they don‘t even understand the concept what makes it so scary for is the idea that at any given moment out of sheer misfortune you could end up at this place where you‘re comoletely alone wandering around in hope of finding an exit, it‘s supposed to make you feel like you are not supposed to even be there but you still managed to

[@freezerounds]

Put simply, the backrooms is conceptually cosmic horror and has nothing to do with the psychological horror story they seem to be trying to tell.

[@43madnox]

@ exactly

[@GloomTexMedia]

Aye Tone, come get me, I'm trapped in some kind of lemon space. That interior decorator took away all the ambiance, real sick shit

[@NeroSeries]

Could have gone the silent hill route and let him explore the backrooms because he thinks his kid is there but as the story continues have it be revealed that he killed his son

[@_YESIMHIGH]

Have more levels and the further he goes in the closer his son is only to find him at the elevator scene to reveal he killed him

[@hitmanmonaghan6633]

Was that…….the Beetlejuice ending?! Are you fucking kidding me?!!

[@MyStickWorld]

Imagine having an entire catalogue of sources up to Kane Pixels, access to fan reception such as timelines and view count windows, critical analysis thesis's that determine what makes these concepts so horrifying and how they can go a step further........and then proceeding to tell a story that is so modular and interchangeable that its settings could be anything yet it STILL doesn't even manage to feel right with the backrooms. They literally show a man googling liminal spaces and the backrooms, and it makes you wonder if they did it themselves at all or if they stared upon it and told themselves they could do it one better. Not taking advantage of set pieces, choosing oversimplifying plots over an undefinable and infinitely more terrifying terror equivalent of being in the belly of the beast. Cap that off with a focus on demons? Cult entities? Purgatory? If you feel bad about yourself today, at least smile knowing you didn't fail at this level of poor showmanship.

[@afish4583]

AHS fall off needs to be extensively studied

[@totalfool4414]

Debatable if it was ever on in the first place

[@tobypeddle9208]

@@totalfool4414literally not true at all, season 1-4 are highly acclaimed. Imo only good season was season 3 but let’s be real haha AHS was DEFINITELY on during that period

[@broodjejonko]

@@tobypeddle9208Hotel was a banger season but maybe I was too distracted by the Countess

[@buttbobaggins]

@@tobypeddle9208 i implore you to rewatch 1-4 in 2024... they might have been highly acclaimed but that does not equal good in the broader scope of the horror genre. so fucking tone deaf, tokenizing, poorly paced, and bafflingly queerphobic and racist... AHS got by on aesthetics (coven did irreparable damage lol)

[@Sgt_Joker]

Well...at least Chrissy got to be a screenwriter finally.

[@adrianxxrod]

It seems like AHS is trying to be Channel Zero with this one

[@mrmusickhimself]

I miss Channel Zero so much, it deserved better than it got.

[@JayAlfordElementJMusic]

I'll never forgive you all that let Channel Zero flop smh.

[@TiredMoonRabbit]

Channel zero wasn't much better, it took those original stories and twisted them into something unrecognizable.

[@Deadhead-kq4hr]

was just Hollywood creatives having a jerking off session with our Internet horror stories and throwing it on paper with channel zero

[@Man.from.the.90sgeneration]

Could you elaborate?

[@maxdai8487]

Making such huge phenomenon creepy pasta iNTO a huge catastrophe was typical American Horror Stories moves. They've already done it before with season 1's back to murder house.

[@matheussberant]

They should have turn it into a a last man on earth/castaway situation where a random guy just slips into the backrooms, and, after years there, when he finally accepts his fate, he starts seeing something moving.

[@reallyfriedthatrice]

Funny how daniel is exactly the profession that Christopher Moltisanti always wanted

[@TheARG_Analyst]

i liked how at the end, the number on the card he gets is the same number as the "final" backrooms level. however was confused me was there were like 3 numbers that were wrong, but i doubt its a coincidence

[@Macalicious]

I haven't been interested in AHS in forever, but never did I expect them to take a fucking meme and run with it. This is just wild wtf

[@swishasweetrold]

7:12 I'm sure Kane will pull it off he hasn't missed once when it comes to his videos

[@PlatypusTheorist]

I disagree, Motion Detected and Prototype were pretty mid.

[@sevaciii]

@@PlatypusTheorist not every single episode he makes is going to be spooky entities chasing the protag

[@PlatypusTheorist]

@@sevaciii I'm really mad he still hasn't used the partygoers or level fun. His content is so mid.

[@Envy-Animations]

@@PlatypusTheoristwhy are you mad he doesn’t add shitty entities?

[@PlatypusTheorist]

@@Envy-Animations Shiity entities, more like PEAK entites. I love partyogers.

[@sinnersshadow6627]

Funniest part is that I noticed you can find a lot of these episodes on KZbin because they were short films first before they put them in the show. Channels such as Alter and Omeleto. You can find some of the short horror films on those.

[@johnstark9801]

They ripped off Silent Hill 2 too. And House of Leaves (Backrooms take inspiration from this book) Good read, highly recommend

[@RealBradMiller]

I live at the end of a five and a half minute hallway...

[@basedsaul2746]

Isnt this just the concept of Silent Hill

[@DefyReality-ll2cg]

Silent Hill 2 but infinity times worse

[@bnashee]

essentially but it also isnt anywhere near as good as that

[@sanyadek]

Ah, my favourite new subgenre, Silent Hill by people who do not understand Silent Hill! Combined with the Backrooms, a concept that can become a boring chore if misused (I kinda hate the very extensive lore we have now with the 9 million different levels and monsters) it's a nice recipe for a bad interpretation of everything. Complete faliure, I love it.

[@blackrazer22]

How is it that a 17 year old Kane is able to do better with less money than a Hollywood studio. unbelievable 🙄

[@lilscenechick1995]

Well, for one, they don’t pay their writers shit, so I’m sure that’s one of the biggest reasons AHS sucks. Short deadlines and rigid execs are passion killers.

[@SpeedBoost]

It's amazing how Hollywood always fails to understand Creepypasta, Analogue Horror and Internet Horror subcultures. They always just turn it into a clichéd traditional horror story, which totally voids the point and appeal of the Creepypasta or Analogue Horror concept.

[@GoblinFromOblivion]

We got Christopher Multisanti in the backrooms before GTA VI.

[@PopTartNeko]

Just watch Severance for a true liminal backrooms experience

[@huntrrams]

Ikr!

[@bradenwelke111]

There’s a movie that’s already achieved what the Backrooms movie sets out to do and that movie is Skinamarink . Easily one of my favorite movies and the most unforgettable theater experience of my life.

[@Tensolin01]

It wasn’t really the backrooms. More like they co-opted the liminal spaces with the AHS hell from Coven. Kinda interesting idea, but not exactly the backrooms we know.

[@Tensolin01]

The red entity is supposed to be Satan. He’s in hell. He is being chased by his demons lmao.

[@MajesticAngel-rq8uk]

The backrooms in that episode reminded me a lot to when madison Montgomery was in hell in what looked like to be an endless retail with endless customers.

[@Tensolin01]

@@MajesticAngel-rq8uk Exactly.

[@austinnharrisfilms7608]

It's a creepy place so we gotta chuck in some creepy kids in masks or whatever and a chase scene and droning ambience and it's gotta be dimly lit. These are the rules of film industry writing. Who gives a shit about what the backrooms is really all about.

[@H6ngman]

7:15 bruh he basically invented the backrooms I think he knows what he’s doing 😂

[@monstersock980]

Okay but as an artist like being trapped here and using ur blood as paint and decorating the whole space would go crazy

[@dannydimella]

I could have written a better backroom episode in a coma 😂

[@strangewayfaringstranger]

No you couldn't. You couldn't even write a good comment.

[@Fosius]

He wrote his comment while not in a coma

[@foxeyboxey9829]

This is how I would explain the episode. The Backrooms is the world between us on Earth and the spiritual world (Heaven and Hell). At the end so many people think he's in hell but I don't think so. He's still in the Backrooms, (you can still see the Backrooms wallpaper when he's about to head down the escalators and the masked entitiesare still there) he's dead and his spirit has left Earth but he's still ended up in the Backrooms (the world between us and Heaven and Hell) because he hasn't fully accepted what he did, he's so involved in the lie. He's tied to the Backrooms now, physically and spiritually. That's why the demon looking women says "no one has ever come this deep before". No one has gotten that far into the Backrooms, held onto a lie so tightly and he even continued to lie even down there. He's completely separated himself from the 'social contract', he's disconnected himself from people, murdered his child and lied about it and he truly really only cares about himself. (He's so disconnected that he phases between realities) He can leave though, he just has to admit the truth but he won't, so he's stuck down in the Backrooms until he admits, which is never, so his spirit will never be sent free. We know the Backrooms has multiple different levels to it, different versions of it. So the waiting room is just another one of those levels, he won't leave even if it actually reaches his number. (It's clear the Backrooms can change and adapt to mess to the person who ended up there.) My reason for this is because both those from Earth and the spiritual world can enter the Backrooms, its possible what we're seeing is a bit of hell leaking through and getting stuck, so they just end up tormenting those who have entered.

[@beysmentssecuritycamera6013]

I wish they made a better reason/explanation of why he murdered his son... maybe they couldve showed him sacrifying the son and selling his soul for the fame, it wouldve made more sense , because it wouldve showed how far he's willing to pay to succeed in hollywood... but the way they did it felt random and unecessary

[@foxeyboxey9829]

@@beysmentssecuritycamera6013 Yea I agree, but honestly even.in real.life people will randomly kill their own family members. Chris Watts, Chandler Halderson

[@foxeyboxey9829]

@@beysmentssecuritycamera6013 Agreed however, it isn't' unrealistic for someone to randomly snap and murder an important person in their life, Chandler Halderson, The Watts etc. Just randomly snapped one day and did the worst thing possible.

[@midnightrose1982]

It made it seem like he didn't want the kid and all the kid did was annoy him because all he seemed to care about was himself and didn't want that responsibility. That's what I took from it anyways.

[@foxeyboxey9829]

@@midnightrose1982 Yea, the kid was getting in the way of letting him live his own life essentially. Glad he got a terrible ending

[@123455thatguy]

That wasn't backrooms. That was the writers version of hell with a backrooms cameo.

[@viscountrainbows2857]

Dropped the ball so hard it no-clipped to level 6

[@fwueileen]

the people in hoods and masks were in a movie he wrote called “chorus” you could see them in the movie poster in the beginning and then engraved on the oscar he later found in the episode.

[@t-b073]

It felt like a 'No fun Alice in Wonderland'

[@isisjames255]

I think the problem is one eps is not enough time to flesh out the plot… I think with this spinoff the ideas are a good start but with it only being one episode… it make us feel like we need more…

[@midnightnavigator]

I agree. Sometimes of these could be 2-3 eps tops.

[@Werewolf.with.Internet.Access]

American Horror Story hasn’t been good since Coven, there I said it

[@stanbily9416]

I disagree entirely!

[@jessheartlove]

coven is not even good. I liked it when I was in middle school but I tried to rewatch it and there was so much casual racism and rape was used as a shock factor and does nothing to further the characters or plot.

[@thytoe]

I like freakshow but nothing after that

[@batenurk]

Michael Imperioli is too good of an actor to be involved in this. I think that he gave a really good performance with a bad story.

[@SpEdMice]

Not knowing anything about backrooms, this reads incredibly for grief and trauma, including time slips, guilt, not accepting the truth. Been there, felt that way.

[@unpaidpiper]

So essentially somebody ordered the plot of "Silent Hill 2" from Wish ...

[@thenintendian5251]

I like how their interpretation of The Backrooms is just Silent Hill

[@INDIAGRAY-i9r]

The people with masks are the “chorus” which was a book he had on a shelf, and it was a key feature of Greek theater to comment and explain the characters motivations, but I have no idea what they were doing here beside looking creepy.

[@letmethinkaboutit2460]

This is not the backrooms, this is non frontage space😭🙏

[@Mctoran2]

It's actually explained in the episode that the reason The Backrooms appears the way it does is because Humans are incapable of comprehending The Backrooms in its true form, and thus project their own memories onto the environment instead. This is also the explanation of why the masked figures exist. They are characters from Daniel's movie "The Chorus", which you can see the poster for at the very beginning of the episode

[@ethanhawksley9097]

Holy mother of SHUT UP YOU NEANDERTHOLIC MICKEY

[@DemonWarp65]

It's amazing how an independent filmmaker did a better job of building an entire fictional universe with no studio backing than an episode of a horror anthology show with a former Sopranos actor. Honestly, this would have worked so much better as a season of Channel Zero. At least that show (sort of) understands internet horror

[@takashiari1598]

The Backrooms are one of those things where the more you try to ad to it, the less scary it gets. I like the original concept because it's just so odd yet simple. No entities, just endless, musty yellow rooms behind reality with no explanation. The idea of there possible being monsters in the backrooms but not knowing if thats actually the case is a lot more unsettling to me than "There are monsters." or "It was hell all along!"

[@PlatypusTheorist]

I can't believe Kane Pixels is making better movies than Hollywood American Horror Stories wow guys kane is only 17

[@shanekelley9042]

Sounds like the backrooms represent personal hells

[@3ndlessL00p]

Nah, thats just the AHS writer's mischaracterization of it in this particular episode

[@roshiancet_creepy]

you mean silent hill

[@goodchap4537]

Is this just silent hill 2 with extra steps?

[@harima9597]

they seems like confuse the back room with silent hill I see

[@MntlWard]

How did he even know to search "liminal spaces?"

[@MarinelliBrosPodcast]

He didn't search "liminal spaces". I believe it was something like "world outside of ours'. I don't remember what, but he finds a link about Liminal spaces during his searches.

[@baxterwilson368]

4:49 I watched this episode last week and this scene went on forever. I had to take breaks.

[@sillypinkewe]

Ahs has always "borrowed" and mashed stories together. But by stealing/borrowing the stories, not always understanding why fans loved the stories.. just seeing an udder to milk. Hollywood does that a lot. There is amazing acting, audio and production but lackluster directing, writing and understanding. It was sad when they butchered Freaks! and fetishized serial killers while exploiting real tragedies. To name a few examples. We've seen online how many good stories and concepts are out there. Hollywood needs to stop relying on tired formulas and letting rich talentless corporate turds destroy productions and actor work. The internet has freed creativity. Hollywood is on its way out if it doesn't innovate and create original good works.

[@rainbowphoenix1363]

I feel like these people saw season 1 of channel zero and thought "hey we can also do internet horror stories!"

[@Zdeath]

They literally just used the back rooms as an attention, grabber, or click bait if you will. It had like nothing to do with the actual plot of the episode. So stupid honestly.

[@skubbasteve6576]

As soon as he got to the rooms and it was dead silent with no buzzing lights I lost all hope that they would do the rooms justice. Can't wait for the A24 made movie next year.

[@johnnyfreespeech5815]

Seeing the thumbnail just reminded me of AHS existence. I enjoyed the first few seasons but thought it fell off a cliff sometime around freakshow. Imagine my shock when i just googled and found that the show was still airing new episodes all these years later. 😂

[@VeritabIlIti]

The idea that AHS went to short-form content after struggling to continue the full seasons is asinine to me. The things that gripped us about the oriignal few seasons had nothing to do with the (let's face it) kind of pathetic moments of spooks (season 1 gimp suit, anyone?) but the characters and their developing mysteries throughout each season. This entire series seems like they decided to give up on that entirely and just focus on the "scares" which they do poorly. I miss Jessica Lange.

[@LA-84-FM]

Floral Shoppe should have been playing during the duration of the episode lol

[@christophergarcia9022]

I clicked just to know if this was an actual thing and not a clickbait title

[@barreltech8949]

They didnt need all that extra shit! The horror of the backrooms is simply being trapped in an endless liminal space, they should have just capitalized on that

[@Kellyeeeee]

I just know Kane Pixels is laughing his teenaged ass off at this.

[@nehemiahpouncey3607]

No hazmat guy's no entity. They don't know how it works.

[@Cainslover]

The hazmat guy's isn't in the real lore Kane Pixel just added it..

[@b1nary_f1nary]

@@Cainslover "real lore" if you want to take that route then the only real lore is the original 4chan post

[@Cainslover]

@@b1nary_f1nary and it got bigger as more people added more levels? So still Kane Pixel didn't make it?

[@ryanwalker5723]

Thanks for sparing me from watching this. Looks just as convoluted and halfbaked as what the rest of AHS is. And I say that as a fan.

[@strangewayfaringstranger]

Yeah cause why think for yourself and form your own opinions. Just let everyone else do it for you! This world is getting dumber all the time.

[@PaganSkye]

What can you watch this on

[@flyte5834]

its supposed to be a glitch, like.. isnt it terrifying realising your entire reality is actually a simulation of some kind? the backrooms is meant to be full of reality's spare parts and things that didnt make it. way more original and creepy

[@atriggeredsjw8532]

This is actually Christopher Moltisanti in hell.

[@mildlyvintage3136]

I’ve been interested in the backrooms since before they blew up on TikTok/roblox/social media and it’s been breaking my heart to see it slowly and slowly made worse

[@baphomette3234]

Ryan Murphy couldn't involve himself with a decent project to save his life. AHS was lightning in a bottle for the first two seasons. I couldn't do it anymore after the Bowie cover in the circus season

[@bearlyhardley]

The only thing I’ve seen that really nails the backrooms aesthetic and atmosphere is Severance

[@EpicCamraMan]

Adding monsters into the backrooms ruins what makes the backrooms scary.

[@meriiwl]

That goes against the original idea though?

[@EpicCamraMan]

@ I thought the idea of it was just extreme paranoia, you get lost in the labyrinth always feeling like something is watching and following. Swearing you saw something in the corner of your eye. Which make it more of a psychological horror. But I could be wrong lol

[@tarwater27]

I was always such a huge fan of the original AHS. Every September, October, I would get so excited for a new season. Then it started turning into shit, then just straight diarrhea. Didn't watch last year's delicate season. No new season this year, and I'm not even sad. The problem with stories is the episodes start out strong, but the endings always feel rushed. Maybe make each episode a little longer, or give each episode 2 parts.

[@Deadhead-kq4hr]

Ryan Murphy slowly becoming a hack with the series

[@DefyReality-ll2cg]

Same, AHS was always apart of my Wednesday TV night but then its just got worse and worse, I didn't even finish Apocalypse, I skipped 1984, came back for Double Feature, Red Tide gave me hope and then they dashed it with that terrible finale, I dropped Death Valley halfway through the first episode and skipped NYC and Delicate and have no intention of watching 13. It truly breaks my heart how bad AHS got because it was once one of my all-time favorite shows.

[@hehasnolips1371]

@@Deadhead-kq4hr be original

[@myu1419]

The Backrooms was, to really begin with, a simple hostile place so repetive, you'd became mad because of it, and what's lurking. Kane gave his own explaination and expanded a lore to it. But whatever the others are doing to it ( purgatory, multiversal hell, or whatever ) kills the core idea of the backroom. A place where 3 things are alive : You, the monsters, and the Backrooms.

[@wadedungan3172]

The vlogger being the guy who voiced Wade in GTAV is funny to me

[@_YESIMHIGH]

When they started showing off the department store with the aisle full of plants they should have added a door with an exit that lead to another backroom level. And I thought the water coming from the grocery store kitchen door was going to lead to the pool rooms :(

[@LgGreen10]

That borderlands movie instantly came to mind after seeing this

[@rusty01738]

i thought it was funny how natalie gold essentially played the same character as in succession

[@-VoDkAsVengeance-]

1:32 unintentional hilarity

[@masterofallgoons]

Might have all been worth if he took the number, sat in the waiting riom and then it pulled back and he was sitting next to Beetlejuice

[@justinrgray4979]

Still waiting for the show or movie where a group of researchers have to go through various levels and obstacles within the backrooms

[@catpetssigot]

studio bro was watching backrooms videos before sleeping and dreamed of this shit, then wrote and decided to film it from memory

[@MaddGasserGatoni]

God not even the infinite supermarket idea is unique. Ots riffing on the infinite ikea from the scp wiki. I didn't realize until now.

[@bloodrunsclear]

I can't wait for AHS: Skibidi

[@TylerLethersin]

To me the backrooms only work as a found footage type style. The idea of not really knowing who’s there & kinda exploring the backrooms that’s what makes it creepy & original.

[@dylanlin8828]

Ever since the real location of the backrooms were found, it lost a lot of eeriness for me

[@phoenixwhiler943]

I mean Murphy doesn't make these episodes. He just gives a thumbs up or thumbs down in American horror stories

[@Prof_Optix]

It had such good promise in that very beginning, then he kept flickering in and out like it's a fucking superpower. Plus, there's only a few ways to escape the Backrooms and none of them are atonement

[@Killer_Kovacs]

The ambiance should have been the sounds of his footsteps and unhinged screaming

[@trip2themoon]

The best AHS stuff was hugely influenced by Many Coto. Even though he died in 2022 his name went up in the credits for this episode but not a writing credit.

[@v7rses]

DONT LET RYAN MURPHY GET HIS HANDS ON ANYTHING

[@112523]

It's amazing how they messed up 2 basic concepts

[@sapphirek5244]

I had to take a second to process that they really did that

[@liamcollinson5695]

The backrooms has such a hospital core vibe i visited my friend in hospital this year and got lost at one point i thought i wandered into the backrooms until a friendly nurse showed me the way out

[@cadendicky1855]

I never even got the popularity over those endless hallways anyway, maybe it was because of its oversaturation by social media, but it kinda just annoyed me.