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What 'Backrooms' reveals about the emotional power of furniture - Monocle

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For certain interior architects, the devil is in the decor.

Design August 11, 2026 3 Min Read For certain interior architects, the devil is in the decor. Writer I’m not normally one for a horror movie – I’ve been known to read a plot synopsis before going to the cinema so that I’m not a shaking wreck throughout. But when Backrooms hit theatres at the start of the summer, I knew that I’d have to watch it. Created by wunderkind director Kane Parsons, the film is a pastiche of 1990s aesthetics and design: it follows the fortunes of a furniture salesman as he makes his way through a landscape of liminal spaces, inspired by the big-box warehouses and…

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