Ep. 877 - Backrooms
The Filmcast
The Filmcast
4.6 • 4K Ratings
🗓️ 2 June 2026
⏱️ 110 minutes
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Summary
David, Devindra, and Jeff come out of retirement with The Boroughs, go hunting with Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit, and shoot for greatness in Goat. Then they make room for the latest indie horror sensation Backrooms.
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Weekly Plugs
David - David’s YouTube: Breaking down the box office for Backrooms
Devindra - Engadget Podcast on Pope Leo’s AI Encylical
Jeff - DLC 654 with Zach Barbieri
Shownotes (All timestamps are approximate only)
What we've been watching (~00:30:17)
David - The Boroughs, Cape Fear (1991)
Devindra - The Boroughs, Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit, 007 First Light
Jeff - Goat, Big City Greens
Featured Review (~01:15:53)
Backrooms
SPOILERS (~01:34:44)
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, everyone and welcome to the filmcast, a podcast about movies. |
| 0:23.3 | I'm David Chen, and men will literally wander around liminal spaces that harbor their deepest, darkest, feelings, rather than go to therapy. |
| 0:32.7 | Joining me today is Divinjara Hardwar. |
| 0:35.2 | You think the backrooms are scary. |
| 0:37.1 | Take a look at my front room. |
| 0:38.5 | Filled with toys. |
| 0:39.7 | As far as the eye I can see, |
| 0:41.2 | forgotten Christmas presents and creepy dolls. |
| 0:44.8 | And Jeff Kanata. |
| 0:46.6 | As someone who was born without a sense of direction, |
| 0:50.3 | my backrooms could be much simpler and still I'd be completely dumped out. |
| 0:54.4 | Just a square. |
| 0:55.3 | Just a couple of spaces, and who knows how to get out. |
| 0:59.5 | Those are all vague and oblique references to the fact that today on the podcast, we're going to be discussing backrooms as our main review. |
| 1:05.1 | Of course, we got some watching for you as well. |
| 1:07.6 | It should be a lot of fun. |
| 1:09.8 | But before we get to that, guys, |
| 1:11.9 | we need to talk about what is happening |
| 1:14.9 | right now at the U.S. box office. |
| 1:17.0 | Now, madness. |
| 1:18.5 | The children, what's wrong with the children? |
| 1:21.5 | They're going to do the theater? Instead of running away from it? |
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