Backrooms Ending Explained: All The Deaths, The Monster Twist & Sequel Setup

I stepped out the theater and appeared in another one. 10/10 would recommend

My understanding of why he strangled Mary was to knock her out because he knew the monster would react poorly to anyone except him. So he did it to prevent her from being hurt

the film was amazing, the ending did confuse me quite a bit so I had to look more into it, but when I did I found it so fascinating that you can never truly leave the backrooms and even if you do physically, that there will always be a part of you and your traumas.

“And the best part is… you can eat them” nah Clark

I’d genuinely love to see this turn into a series that doesn’t follow a group of certain characters but has A-synce every time and each movie we find out more weird things about the backrooms and see even crazier worlds

The open window message I thought was a reference to her childhood when her mother wouldn't let her open the window especially because the flashback happened just before the message

there wasn’t a single moment where you were able to predict what was gonna happen next

My immediate takeaway was this was written to be the first installment in a franchise. I hope I am right. This was a good, first taste. We don't know about Async. We don't know their objective, or Mark Duplass' character's relationship to Mary.

The concept reminds me a little of the shimmer from the annihilation movie. It warps and copies its victims. I hope they story expands from here.

I have a theory that Mary and her mother lived in the back rooms for a while as what we see when the mother tells her daughter that it’s dangerous to go outside and not to look out because of the still life that’s there, after a while of living in the back rooms they somehow end up out of the back rooms and back in reality, but how they got into the back rooms at first was when they were looking at the cement and either the Mom or Mary fell in or they both fell in

One thing I noticed was how that smaller still life on the wheelchair and lamp had a clothing style similar to what you’d see in the early to mid 1800s, meaning the backrooms is copying our reality from seemingly all points of time

EVERYONE seemed to miss that the footage at the start that the scientist sees is labeled 1990, but when that same scientist sees Clark’s commercial air conditioning the newspaper was dated 1997!

before watching this video, i got an ad for a furniture store. im feeling a little uneasy now

movie made me shiz my pants and question reality coming out of the theatre

What did you think of "Backrooms"?

My take: The Backrooms are a spatial and symbolic representation of Clark's subconscious mind while the furniture store represents his conscious mind. Clark spends his whole day and night "in his head" (the store) which has led to problems in his personal relationships. The store's lighting is not working correctly which inhibits his ability to see (think) clearly and when the wiring of the store is assessed by an outside observer (the electrician) it is noted that it is improperly constructed. Clark goes to a therapist (Mary) to deal with his issues. While this is happening he gains some clarity and decides to address his lack of vision directly instead of depending learning through the reflection the world presents to him (the electrician). To do this he gains access to his subconscious mind (the Backrooms) in a way he could never before. While there, he notices how bizarrely constructed, backwards (literally) and dangerous things are there and that there's something dangerous creeping around causing damage. He begins exploring his subconscious mind and he begins to literally unpack his issues by bringing artifacts from the place out into his conscious mind (the store). When Clark brings two others into his subconscious mind they become very uncomfortable by what they see and pass judgement which ultimately gets them killed by the monster which (as the monster's final likeness indicates) is a representation of his malformed ego. When Mary enters Clark's subconscious mind there is a clarity in the Backrooms - there's less clutter. Things are cleaner. The painting on the wall shows that there's an increased understanding of the relationship between the monster (ego) and the light of his conscious mind. When Clark chokes Mary out they descend to a much deeper level of the mind where she serves as the provider of clarity still. During this encounter Clark mentions that this is the place he feels most comfortable (which makes sense, it is his subconscious mind after all) but Mary communicates to Clark the ultimate truth about the nature of his ego (monster) which is when its full form is then clearly seen as a grotesque, bumbling caricature of Clark himself. Ideally spiritual journeys involve an ego death which allows for a rebirth but in this case he is told that the provider of clarity does not have the capacity to change him (kill his ego). Clark does not have the fortitude to subdue his ego which kills him (who at that time was serving as a conscious observer / reflector of himself) after he tries to make peace with the ego who is (as implied by Clark) feeling threatened. The provider of clarity escapes back up and out through the conscious mind. Mary wonders what happens to her now and the film ends by showing how in Clark's Backrooms she is represented as a warped grotesquerie, showing that the spiritual journey failed.

The editing and the way you’re breaking down the film is just all over the place. Hard to digest hard to take in especially for someone who seen it

That final shot was like a gut punch I LOVED this movie so much

Bro I feel kinda bad for Clark he did not deserve to die he was mentally ill and needed help and staying in the backrooms with the monster did not help

At first, I thought that the male actor was schizophrenic and having two sides of him: the good and the evil. The evil would be him in the monstrous way. He invited Mary into his world, a place where he feels stuck, unworthy, and feeling blamed. Then after, at the end, I realized that maybe Mary was the person who was schizophrenic, and all these are part of her delusions and hallucinations since childhood, which her mental break started with the separation of her mother. This is my way of reflecting about the movie. I know I might be wrong.