They both deal with the psychological horror of modern living but in very different ways. Severance is about drowning in a corporate job and the company having total control over your life. Backrooms is about finding sense and meaning in an environment designed to be sanitized and creatively empty. Also while Severance is more of a hard sci fi that's fairly grounded in reality, Backrooms presents an alternate version of reality.
Backrooms movie and Severance are both drawing from the same inspiration. That inspiration is the original internet stories and images of The Backrooms, a meme from the 2010s that predates both the show and movie.
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its_kim_love@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 21 pts · 79d
jaybone@lemmy.zip · 5 pts · 79d
Every meme I see about this makes it seem like a Severance ripoff.
Zoomboingding@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 79d
They both deal with the psychological horror of modern living but in very different ways. Severance is about drowning in a corporate job and the company having total control over your life. Backrooms is about finding sense and meaning in an environment designed to be sanitized and creatively empty. Also while Severance is more of a hard sci fi that's fairly grounded in reality, Backrooms presents an alternate version of reality.
its_kim_love@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 2 pts · 79d
Severance owes a lot of it's visuals to the original Backrooms content.
jaybone@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 79d
Oh I thought the backrooms movie was newer.
its_kim_love@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 4 pts · 79d
Backrooms movie and Severance are both drawing from the same inspiration. That inspiration is the original internet stories and images of The Backrooms, a meme from the 2010s that predates both the show and movie.
assassassin@fedinsfw.app · 2 pts · 79d
As if that's ever gonna happen
IAMgROOT@lemmy.wtf · 2 pts · 79d
it all began with a job in silicon valley
IAMgROOT@lemmy.wtf · 2 pts · 79d
and an overflow at his old research center job
zikzak025@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 78d
Both of these links are failing to load for me, just spinning indefinitely. What's the context?
IAMgROOT@lemmy.wtf · 1 pts · 78d
https://kanepixelsbackrooms.fandom.com/wiki/Ivan_Beck