The MIT Press

For the cinephiles: A24's "Backrooms" is out today. ICYMI, here’s a great piece on the surprisingly deep history behind Backrooms — touching on everything from Gothic literature to internet folklore to video game culture to ’80s nostalgia.

“Above all, Backrooms captures a feeling — and one that I would argue has become a defining condition of life under Corporate America: dread.”

‘Backrooms’ and the Rise of the Institutional Gothic A new spin on an old genre replaces flesh-and-blood monsters with the mundanity of modern bureaucracy.