Hello internet! Welcome to Film Theory, the show that's been lost in the backrooms for over a year now.

Please send help. At this point, I'm sure we all know what the backrooms is, right?

This creepypasta turned analog horror series created by indie filmmaker Kane Pixels absolutely took YouTube by Storm last year.

With its haunting aesthetics, its mysterious story, and its deep lore, just begging to be uncovered.

And that has actually become a big part of the franchise, something that Kane talked about in a recent interview with my friend Anthony Padilla.

You have people dissecting your videos. You have the film theorists.

I think they made like five videos dissecting the backrooms.

Does any of their analyses dictate where you take your series?

No, no.

Hear that map, Pat? You do not have any power over this man.

Oh, is that so?

Then why did your characters follow my advice as I pointed out in a recent YouTube short?

I'm not just coping here, am I?

Yeah.

Thank you, Matthew, for all your coverage.

But no, sadly, you do not influence this series.

Well, poop.

But then again, I can't blame him.

What Kane's been doing with the series so far has worked really well.

Well enough that it's caught the attention to people well beyond our little corner of internet

analog horror.

Yeah, in case you didn't hear this one, Kane has actually teamed up with movie studio A24 to make a feature-length

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