“Obsession” and “Backrooms” Movie Review | The New Yorker
“Backrooms” and “Obsession,” both directed by precocious YouTube-trained talents, breathe shivery cinematic life into urban legends and cautionary tales.
Save this story Save this story Alice tumbled down a rabbit hole; Lucy wandered through a wardrobe. For Clark (Chiwetel Ejiofor), the middle-aged man-child protagonist of the new thriller “Backrooms,” the portal to another dimension lies in a strip-mall furniture outlet in California’s Santa Clara Valley. Clark owns the store, a depressingly pirate-themed affair called Cap’n Clark’s Ottoman Empire, and it’s about as successful as his recently ended marriage. He needs an escape from this reality, and he finds it, one sleepless night, in the store’s basement-level showroom. Slipping through a wa
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