Hello internet! Welcome to Film Theory, the show that reminds you to never trespass on private property,

because you might just get stuck in an analog horror series.

Ladies and gentlemen, Kane Pixels has done it again.

Taking a break from working on his backroom's feature film to give us a brand new series known as the oldest view.

And while the series certainly draws a lot of ideas and inspiration from Kane's Backrooms videos,

something that the series itself calls out,

It's literally like the, uh, the backrooms from TikTok.

It is still very much its own thing.

In case you've missed this one, the oldest view is a more cinematic piece than Kane's previous Backrooms videos,

combining his trademark found footage style with a couple of scenes that are more

traditionally shot. In the series, we find ourselves behind the camera of a college YouTube vlogger

named Wyatt. In what starts off as a normal hiking vlog, Wyatt takes us to this weird

hole that he found at the base of a large tree, revealing a staircase that descends straight down

into the earth and out of sight. And as any good YouTuber would, Wyatt decides to enter this obviously dangerous, mysterious stairwell,

all in pursuit of that sweet, sweet content.

At the bottom, almost a mile underground, he finds something completely unexpected, an abandoned

a shopping mall.

But unfortunately for Wyatt, though the mall's devoid of human life, he isn't alone.

Slowly he stalked by a mysterious monster. A large paper-mache statue on wheels pulled straight out of the uncanny valley.

A statue who seems to hate the fact that his home has been disturbed. Let me tell you, I wasn't sure that

Kane was going to be able to recapture the mysterious and horrific lightning in a bottle that he found with the back rooms.

But it's been a while since a piece of media like this has kept me at the edge of my seat.

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