No absurd ridiculous monsters, no jump scares, no crime scenes or contrived story lines, just pure, infinitely unsettling surreal liminality. As if being trapped forever in an intelligent extraterrestrial civilization's zoo exhibit that's trying unsuccessfully to emulate what it thinks an imprisoned human creature might find comforting and home-like. Wonderful.
To me, what makes your Videos stand out from the rest is the way you design the backrooms. They look like they were made by something or someone that has this vague idea of what human spaces are supposed to look like but cant really understand what their actual purpose is. Like all the elements are there, but configured in a way that defeats their intended purpose. Thats what makes in so uncanny: We see all the parts of a pool, but they're just put together wrong. These rooms weren’t designed with human needs and behavior in mind. It’s like an AI just endlessly generates these environments but never gets it quite right. You precisely understand what made the original idea of these rooms so creepy and unsettling and perfectly capture it in your renders. No need for dumb entities and an endless stream of power-creep lore additions where every new bit that gets added is even more distorted and powerful than the last.
I won't lie, this is the best Backrooms video I've seen since Kane Pixels. You truly understand the feeling that the Backrooms conveys more than just surface level ideas. The lack of a solid story makes it feel more like a dream, which is exactly how the The Backrooms should be. And I can definitely tell there is a story, but thats not the point, I guess. I also love how there isn't really an entity of a monster but just the water, which I think is arguably scarier since nature is not concious it just acts. Phenominal. Favorite part was when it looks like its outside but it isnt, that was so dang clever
A few months ago, I attempted to create poolroom exploration footage myself, and based on that experience, I can attest to the immense amount of work involved. Truly impressive job! 👏 I also love the unique and terrifying ending.
I don't know anything about what this is.. I just know that it's unsettling. The sterile nature of it and the seemingly random placement of the pools and stainless steel railings give it abandoned mental institution vibes. I felt relieved when it seemed like you found an outside door but crushed when it turned out to be a facade. Bravo on this.
@@alainportant6412 "the backrooms" is a scifi concept of an alternative reality, with infinitely stretching corridors and places. the poolsrooms are one of them. there are multiple creators making creepy and eerie videos!
PART 1?! THAT MEANS A PART 2!! HOORAY!! Seriously, you uploading again is a major highlight. I was holding out so much hope for another video since your last upload was quite a while ago. You are top-notch.
Matt, another INCREDIBLE video! I love your style of backrooms- lots of house-like places. I also think you make the best Poolrooms videos out there, because you add a look that is unique while capturing elements from the previously established "Dream Pools". I recently rewatched all of your videos and you never disappoint. Keep up the good work!
Finally! A pool rooms with water that doesn't have unnecessary ripples and waves. The water is actually still and glass-like. Like what an undisturbed indoor pool would actually look like.
I'm sensitive to these things too. 5:30 is an exception; I feel like if the water ripples there should be some visible water flow. Otherwise it looks like a wave pool. Easily best poolrooms video I have ever seen tho
The potential energy of water plus gravitational pull combined with the constant particle movements in water causes ripples in any given area where water is present. Just basic physics dude.
Right? 30 years ago, I used to draw my dreams. Once I drew a picture of a dream I had where I was waking in water inside a middle eastern looking marble building with weird tunnels, odd water fixtures, and easy too small sitting areas. So many similarities to this. I threw them away when someone saw them and made fun of them...
Brilliant, utterly weird and incongruous, unnatural, potentially infinite and inescapable! I like all of the surprises like the fridge, the bird sounds /fake outdoors, and the weird transitions from carpeted apartment room to pool complex. What I really like about your videos in this genre is that all really good art, it makes you see the world differently. You notice stuff that looks weird and incongruous, like the shape of a tap or a bathtub, how unnatural most interiors are if you really look at them and how behind all of our perception is this lurking doubt about whether the source of it all is an infinite void, a pattern, or a presence. Ha! Anyway it's given me loads of inspiration for a bathroom refurb. Nice work!!
At 2:00, this is the most insanely corresponding to the backrooms lore room i have EVER SEEN. THIS is what i see in my dreams, this makes no damn sense and it left me in pure awe. thanks for your creativity. As i'm continuing the video i can clearly see you've made some very nonsensical (in a positive way) choices for the architecture that's not pools. I absolutely love your way with design. it's absolutely dreamlike
The lighting at 3:54 is so good. Incredibly strange. Also, I love the orange carpet area in First encounter. Your environmental design showcases the creepiness of the backrooms so well.
Another great installment! Love the 'McMansion Hell' vibe looking out at those big windows over the balustrade around the 60sec. mark. And the birdsong (the mourning dove call especially) was a genius touch, at first I wasn't sure if that was coming from the video or outside my house 😂
The sense of dread I felt at the end, knowing that no matter what would happen afterward, the moment he walked through that metal door the next time he came back to it, it would be closed? Unrecreatable. Fantastic job as always
I said it before on your #3 video and I'll say it again: you are one of the very best Backrooms creators out there. I'm by no means a backrooms purist, everybody is free to intepret it as they please, but you easily come closest to the true spirit of what I thinks makes the Backrooms/Poolrooms so special: that balance between relaxing and terrifying, and using nothing but atmosphere to achieve that. I can't wait for #5!
Your take on Backrooms/Poolrooms is the absolute best! The way you use ambiance and the fear of the unknown to create a feeling of dread is just perfect, no cheap jumpscares or dumb monsters, just you and the infinite unknown and your mind racing to try and make something out of this strange reality. I specially love the beginning area, you should make a side series all about just liminal backroom exploration, I could spend hours watching all these dreamlike spaces that look like bits of reality pieced back together!
I'm in love with the weird/awkward geometry you include. Your geometry is unique. Also that mourning dove sound you included, that brought back some memories. What a peaceful sound.
That's an impressive job, keep on! 💪 P. S. Never seen a pool rooms version of "Liminal Hotel" at 5:48, thst's pure genious! And what about the finale... BRAVO 👏👏👏
we've been here before. go to exploration footage #2 and scroll to the 4:57 mark and we get the view of this same upper platform from the ground. this video is really subtle with connecting the spaces together if youve got the eye for detail because it reuses locations from the previous 3 videos but from different points within the same room. and "the mall" is essentially the large center room of it all. where even though the filmer doesnt travel in a direct circle, they always end up back in the mall after traveling in an incomprehensible loop.
@@MasterOfTruck I also found this place in another issue where this place was visible from below. I was looking for a comment where they would write this. Now I'm glad that I'm not the only one who noticed it
This feels much more sinister and threatening than your previous explorations. Like a dream you wake up knowing it was a bad one, but not sure why. Excellent work man. I'm far from the first to say it, but you really get what this genre is all about
Recently been on a poolrooms kick, and I gotta say. I love how in the beginning the subtle liminal bits of poolroom architecture start blending in to the normal backrooms architecture. I've always had this headcanon idea where different levels in the backrooms that are connected are connected in this loose way where the architecture subtly shifts to whatever style is next
absolutely awesome work!! Loved every bit of it! I was surprised at the ending, we’ve never had an immediate threat to someone’s life, nor have them run from it
I like the idea that the Poolrooms are so infinitely large that they create their own tidal forces on their waters, not my original idea, according to wikidot it seemed like an attempt to explain the ripples in the water. However maybe a sudden unpredictable shift in the water can send it in overwhelming volumes into previously dry chambers. The poolrooms are such a great example of how the liminal environment alone can be tailored to be just as scary as all the entity infested levels.
I know many take inspiration from Kane Pixels when it comes to games/game mods for the backrooms, but personally, I feel inspired by your work as I plug away at Doom modding. There's quite a bit more intricacies and even themes to your rooms. Poolrooms, McMansions & Apartments, office buildings, even department store layouts, etc. All just off enough to push that uncanny valley & bad dream feeling. I also enjoyed the use of a more "natural" hazard that endangers the protagonist here, rather than going for the loud spooky monster cliche. Look forward to seeing more. Normally I'd mock the protagonists for being so curious, but I'd probably be right there behind them if I was in the same environment.
Thanks for another video, Matt. These are work of art. I know hype in the liminal space has settled down a bit over the last few months, I hope you continue to make content (if you’re passionate about it, of course) You do amazing work, the architecture and ambience are incredible
The house room was so uncanny and I think it perfectly represents the feel of liminal space. Awesome video, with no overused entities or silly jump scares!!
such an under appreciate talent man, this is so cool. perfect blend of familiar and absolutely-eerie-as-hell, amazing job ! also at 5:00 the stairs were very trauma show vibes, which is ironic because at least i’m that they signified an escape…
This is so cool! And the sound design is so good, too! The ambient buzzing/whooshing, and the way it changes to fit the surroundings, is really immersive. I'm gonna watch this over and over
Months of waiting were worth it, your editing work hasn't changed, it's still incredible. The mysterious atmosphere and comfortable silence, but at the same time scary. And as always, the ending makes me even more curious about what's to come in the next videos. I'll always be here, I look forward to the next videos, no matter how long it takes.
Randomly thought of checking on your channel a few minutes ago and what an unexpected surprise to find this! (Sorry in advance, this comment turned out wayyyyyy longer than I expected, lol.) Like a lot of people in the comments have said, I really appreciate how you handle the nostalgia-dread factor of the backrooms. I have so many dreams like this, almost every night, of massive buildings that are some combination of things from my childhood like a shopping mall or a house. Maze-like buildings that seem to never end and make more sense in the dream than when I wake up and think back on it, but yet there's still something unsettling about them even in the dream when I'm the most convinced that they're real. And your videos capture that feeling better than anything else I've seen. I really liked how you included '90s coloring in this one as well; those faded pinkish and green tones at the start were very reminiscent of old Taco Bells or old malls from my earliest memories. It adds so much to that feeling of... nostalgia mixed with dread mixed with the knowledge that something is off, but you don't quite know what, because everything looks normal at first glance, but then you find that you either can't or don't want to look again. Having the viewer confined to the single POV of the camera definitely adds to the overall experience; we already can't see what's around the next corner (and there are so many!) and then to not even be able to look from side to side unless the cameraman does? Genuinely one of the most effective ways to evoke loss of control through media. Lastly, I've said this before on another one of your videos, but I still really appreciate your lack of true jump scares - especially because they make the few scary moments even scarier. Obviously the whole concept of the video is scary, but like in footage #3 when the chair falls over after the cameraman leaves the room, you have a lot of buildup with walking around and feeling tension and anxiety rise, and then something happens at the very end and it's subtle! But it's even more horrifying for its subtlety. I couldn't see what was moving at the far end of that hall, it was too blurry and the camera was too shaky. But that just made it twenty trillion times scarier. Well done as always, Matt. I eagerly await the next installment of this series.
Love the architecture here - truly surreal and kinda makes me wish I could experience living in a house with such a surreal layout. It'll be weird, but potentially relaxing and refreshing for how unique it is. Bravo on your latest entry to your Poolrooms series! I appreciate when Backrooms videos go all in on the surreal architecture layouts.
Your channel is by far my favorite take of the Backrooms/Poolrooms and I havent watched the video yet, you don't know how excited I was to see you upload.
We seen new areas within the backrooms in this one. It seemed as if it did a full circle from the earlier videos you did like the character stumbled into an area the previous guy was. The level of creativity was on point. This was definitely the best thus far. The owl caught me off guard. There was a level of déjà vu in the beginning for myself when he was on the balcony. I could watch your vids all day Matt. I’m just glad to have you back buddy. Thank you for what you’re doing man! Knocked it outta the park.
@@minecraftkid50978 "the mall" used in all 4 videos is essentially the center room, where the filmer always ends up back in the mall regardless of the path they take and basically travels in an incomprehensible loop. every time the mall has appeared, its always been a different part of it. the platform at 5:55 in this video is the same platform you can see at the 4:57 mark in the exploration #2 video from the ground perspective.
I'll take it one step further than what others have said. This isn't just the best Backrooms video I've seen, it's the best found footage I've ever seen. Better than anything Hollywood has churned out. That ending is the best and most terrifying reveal in any "haunted house" piece of literature or film. It's chilling without revealing anything, yet you don't feel shorthanded or ripped off. The perfect disturbing payoff.
@@MattStudiosAnimations You're welcome! I'm currently reading House of Leaves and your videos perfectly capture that frantic, wrenching sense of being lost in a place that shouldn't exist.
The "House rooms" or whatev is my fave aesthetic. Most relateable and I've had lots of dreams about them even before liminal spaces became popular. GJ and very nice aesthetics overall.
i love the architecture so much, what a fantastic pool room video :D Every room seems different and I would probably hate to be in every single on of them. Great work ^^)
the poolrooms are a personal fave as always (and yours in particular hit just right), but i was really really pleasantly surprised by the “not-house” portion in the beginning
Thank you for this. I like everything except the bird call jumpscare and the last scene lol. Made me wake up from the nice dream and I wish if I am noclipped into a PoolRoom I should be equipped either with a donut float, or a full scuba diving set so I won't drown. I can just stay exploring in the PoolRoom forever.
Thank you for bringing back areas that are lit up! When you can make a place unsettling even when it has a lot of light, you know you have a winner, and this is a winner as it is very creepy
I've have been patiently waiting for uploads from this channel and it has paid off! So happy to see the new content, my favorite channel for backrooms content.
Love your videos, honestly I think I like them more than Kane Pixels. The ambiance is so on point. The lighting and the architecture. Everything. I enjoy how there's this Idyllic quality that is unnerving at the same time. I can imagine people and families here once. Enjoying a shared pool. But absent of people. It is so creepy and disturbing. Also the way your videos make me feel truly lost. Keep it up
I liked the 5:00 mark. Because it felt to me. Like the backrooms themselves were kind of dreaming. As though Even in the orders it makes for itself..there is a subconscious that arranges things foreign even to it's own self
I can't believe I've only just found this .... I've been into liminal spaces for like a decade ... I love these! They're so amazingly done the sensory experience feels real. I'd love to work on something like. . I have my own imaginings of liminal spaces I'd love to create! New sub
upon sighting this and rusters new video in my subscription feed, i felt excitement, this video was pretty cool, with all the bizarre architecture and the scene at the end
you really have a knack for having architectural elements be placed in an unsettling and unnatural way ! i know its poolrooms focused, but i'm fond of the beginning segment inside the 'house.' very similar to some nightmares i've had lol edit: also wanted to say the natural walking camera movement really sells the illusion !
your videos always fit that perfect mix of odd comfort and confusion for me. i love to just rewatch these with headphones and immerse myself, pretend its me and just feel it lol
This is truly special. I love how there are little to no dead ends, with an alternate option for exploration everywhere. It mirrors exactly how I'd explore such a space. Alway interested and curious to go forward, trying more and more desperately to remember how to get back. At least until the end when it's too late! It's never perfectly comfortable, and there's always a little foreboding in the atmosphere. It's the perfect final touch. I'd love this in a VR mode!
ive been waiting for another release of the exploration footage you make for a while now and this release seriously did not dissapoin. Keep up the good work
4:45 that build up with all the beautiful sounds of nature and then bam.... deafening ceiling lights. This is beautiful, your environment designs are by far the best. The first house sequence was harrowing, it felt like a haunted house video where the ghost is all of the environment itself. 1:35 random death traps and environment that never feels safe no matter where you stand. Every inch of the room is uncomfortable to look at and uncanny
YESSSSS!!!! Finally. Haven't watched it yet but here's a like in advance ❤ Edit: awesome footage. You feel familiar with it yet still a lot of things seem out of place... just that uncanny valley feeling. Awesome work 👏
How is nobody else mentioning this? You can see that at 5:52 he seems to have found his way back to the route he first took, but now on the 'balcony' visible in the previous footage. But at that part of the series he was walking in the water in the room! What's striking is that he doesnt recognize the place he was initially familiar with. This scene could highlight the psychological toll of the backrooms, showing how being lost in endlessly repeating rooms disconnects him from his own sense of orientation and memory. The final scene, where he is trapped and about to drown, might even symbolize hopelessness and being consumed by fear. It's almost as if he is unable get out of his head, drowning is his mind and unable to escape the madness. Maybe it's stretch, but I thought it was an interesting perspective to share.
Love it! I'm surprised this is the first time I've seen the water itself be a hazard, but it works better than the SCP-esque monsters that many creators default to (which do work in many cases, but are overused by many (I also like truly solitary liminal spaces, so there is a bias of course :P ))
Beautiful work and great story telling without saying a single word. Uploaded Just as I'm getting back into the backroom's lore and learning blender so Thank you Very much, I Really enjoyed it and I'm looking forward to future videos.
No absurd ridiculous monsters, no jump scares, no crime scenes or contrived story lines, just pure, infinitely unsettling surreal liminality. As if being trapped forever in an intelligent extraterrestrial civilization's zoo exhibit that's trying unsuccessfully to emulate what it thinks an imprisoned human creature might find comforting and home-like. Wonderful.
To me, what makes your Videos stand out from the rest is the way you design the backrooms.
They look like they were made by something or someone that has this vague idea of what human spaces are supposed to look like but cant really understand what their actual purpose is. Like all the elements are there, but configured in a way that defeats their intended purpose.
Thats what makes in so uncanny: We see all the parts of a pool, but they're just put together wrong. These rooms weren’t designed with human needs and behavior in mind. It’s like an AI just endlessly generates these environments but never gets it quite right.
You precisely understand what made the original idea of these rooms so creepy and unsettling and perfectly capture it in your renders. No need for dumb entities and an endless stream of power-creep lore additions where every new bit that gets added is even more distorted and powerful than the last.
I won't lie, this is the best Backrooms video I've seen since Kane Pixels. You truly understand the feeling that the Backrooms conveys more than just surface level ideas. The lack of a solid story makes it feel more like a dream, which is exactly how the The Backrooms should be. And I can definitely tell there is a story, but thats not the point, I guess. I also love how there isn't really an entity of a monster but just the water, which I think is arguably scarier since nature is not concious it just acts. Phenominal. Favorite part was when it looks like its outside but it isnt, that was so dang clever
what about "backrooms - stalker" i thought that was pretty good and one of the best backrooms videos out there
A few months ago, I attempted to create poolroom exploration footage myself, and based on that experience, I can attest to the immense amount of work involved. Truly impressive job! 👏 I also love the unique and terrifying ending.
your stuff is really good, nice work :D
I am still watching and haven´t seen the end yet. Thank you, now I´m scared. Help XD
I don't know anything about what this is.. I just know that it's unsettling. The sterile nature of it and the seemingly random placement of the pools and stainless steel railings give it abandoned mental institution vibes. I felt relieved when it seemed like you found an outside door but crushed when it turned out to be a facade. Bravo on this.
also the person exploring with zero anxiety is just unsettling
always a bit disheartening to see someone new here in the backrooms, knowing you're stuck here just like us now. forever.
You should check out some art by Jared Pike, he popularized the 'creepy sterile pool room' aesthetic
What even is this pool room thing and why is it in my suggestions ?
@@alainportant6412 "the backrooms" is a scifi concept of an alternative reality, with infinitely stretching corridors and places. the poolsrooms are one of them. there are multiple creators making creepy and eerie videos!
The placement of the guard rails and architecture in this one feel super alienating. Good job.
Natural light from windows at backrooms looks so fresh
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It's so eerie to see natural light in a place like that. It seems like it's late afternoon
PART 1?! THAT MEANS A PART 2!! HOORAY!!
Seriously, you uploading again is a major highlight. I was holding out so much hope for another video since your last upload was quite a while ago. You are top-notch.
Matt, another INCREDIBLE video! I love your style of backrooms- lots of house-like places. I also think you make the best Poolrooms videos out there, because you add a look that is unique while capturing elements from the previously established "Dream Pools". I recently rewatched all of your videos and you never disappoint. Keep up the good work!
Finally! A pool rooms with water that doesn't have unnecessary ripples and waves. The water is actually still and glass-like. Like what an undisturbed indoor pool would actually look like.
I'm sensitive to these things too. 5:30 is an exception; I feel like if the water ripples there should be some visible water flow. Otherwise it looks like a wave pool. Easily best poolrooms video I have ever seen tho
The potential energy of water plus gravitational pull combined with the constant particle movements in water causes ripples in any given area where water is present. Just basic physics dude.
@@mikemike3760what about still water?
As usual, "wasn't I there before?". . . "Oh my no, that's just a little too odd.". Love it.
Right? 30 years ago, I used to draw my dreams. Once I drew a picture of a dream I had where I was waking in water inside a middle eastern looking marble building with weird tunnels, odd water fixtures, and easy too small sitting areas. So many similarities to this. I threw them away when someone saw them and made fun of them...
Brilliant, utterly weird and incongruous, unnatural, potentially infinite and inescapable! I like all of the surprises like the fridge, the bird sounds /fake outdoors, and the weird transitions from carpeted apartment room to pool complex. What I really like about your videos in this genre is that all really good art, it makes you see the world differently. You notice stuff that looks weird and incongruous, like the shape of a tap or a bathtub, how unnatural most interiors are if you really look at them and how behind all of our perception is this lurking doubt about whether the source of it all is an infinite void, a pattern, or a presence. Ha! Anyway it's given me loads of inspiration for a bathroom refurb. Nice work!!
Very well said
At 2:00, this is the most insanely corresponding to the backrooms lore room i have EVER SEEN. THIS is what i see in my dreams, this makes no damn sense and it left me in pure awe. thanks for your creativity.
As i'm continuing the video i can clearly see you've made some very nonsensical (in a positive way) choices for the architecture that's not pools. I absolutely love your way with design. it's absolutely dreamlike
The lighting at 3:54 is so good. Incredibly strange. Also, I love the orange carpet area in First encounter. Your environmental design showcases the creepiness of the backrooms so well.
Oh god the ending was terrifying
Another great installment! Love the 'McMansion Hell' vibe looking out at those big windows over the balustrade around the 60sec. mark. And the birdsong (the mourning dove call especially) was a genius touch, at first I wasn't sure if that was coming from the video or outside my house 😂
So intriguing how it's a mix of an indoor water park, ymca pool, locker room shower, and a flooded shopping mall all in one.
The sense of dread I felt at the end, knowing that no matter what would happen afterward, the moment he walked through that metal door the next time he came back to it, it would be closed?
Unrecreatable. Fantastic job as always
I said it before on your #3 video and I'll say it again: you are one of the very best Backrooms creators out there. I'm by no means a backrooms purist, everybody is free to intepret it as they please, but you easily come closest to the true spirit of what I thinks makes the Backrooms/Poolrooms so special: that balance between relaxing and terrifying, and using nothing but atmosphere to achieve that. I can't wait for #5!
Your take on Backrooms/Poolrooms is the absolute best! The way you use ambiance and the fear of the unknown to create a feeling of dread is just perfect, no cheap jumpscares or dumb monsters, just you and the infinite unknown and your mind racing to try and make something out of this strange reality.
I specially love the beginning area, you should make a side series all about just liminal backroom exploration, I could spend hours watching all these dreamlike spaces that look like bits of reality pieced back together!
I absolutely love the mourning dove sound you included at 4:10. Just gives in even harder to the nostalgia. Excellent video as always
I'm in love with the weird/awkward geometry you include. Your geometry is unique. Also that mourning dove sound you included, that brought back some memories. What a peaceful sound.
That's an impressive job, keep on! 💪
P. S. Never seen a pool rooms version of "Liminal Hotel" at 5:48, thst's pure genious!
And what about the finale... BRAVO 👏👏👏
the pool rooms version of liminal hotel is called "lvl 188.8" or smth like that i think
@@GlitchedBruh_ManIsCrazyugh levels are such cringe 😂
we've been here before. go to exploration footage #2 and scroll to the 4:57 mark and we get the view of this same upper platform from the ground. this video is really subtle with connecting the spaces together if youve got the eye for detail because it reuses locations from the previous 3 videos but from different points within the same room. and "the mall" is essentially the large center room of it all. where even though the filmer doesnt travel in a direct circle, they always end up back in the mall after traveling in an incomprehensible loop.
@@MasterOfTruck I also found this place in another issue where this place was visible from below. I was looking for a comment where they would write this. Now I'm glad that I'm not the only one who noticed it
This feels much more sinister and threatening than your previous explorations. Like a dream you wake up knowing it was a bad one, but not sure why. Excellent work man. I'm far from the first to say it, but you really get what this genre is all about
i've had rare dreams like this since i was a kid in the 90s (various empty "facilities", pools & malls), thx for making them real
Recently been on a poolrooms kick, and I gotta say. I love how in the beginning the subtle liminal bits of poolroom architecture start blending in to the normal backrooms architecture. I've always had this headcanon idea where different levels in the backrooms that are connected are connected in this loose way where the architecture subtly shifts to whatever style is next
Its great how instead of straight no-clipping you make your way there through a dreamy 'house' that shifts into the poolrooms.
Congrats on colaborating with Netflix!
Um what show is it?
@@VIRGINBLUESOMETIMES118squid game found footage, the channel is still watching Netflix.
absolutely awesome work!! Loved every bit of it!
I was surprised at the ending, we’ve never had an immediate threat to someone’s life, nor have them run from it
I like the idea that the Poolrooms are so infinitely large that they create their own tidal forces on their waters, not my original idea, according to wikidot it seemed like an attempt to explain the ripples in the water. However maybe a sudden unpredictable shift in the water can send it in overwhelming volumes into previously dry chambers. The poolrooms are such a great example of how the liminal environment alone can be tailored to be just as scary as all the entity infested levels.
E incluso siempre he pensado 😱😣😭
Finally, you're back after a whole year! Love your Backrooms video!
Good lord the animation is good in this one. Probably the most convincing I've seen in a backrooms video.
I know many take inspiration from Kane Pixels when it comes to games/game mods for the backrooms, but personally, I feel inspired by your work as I plug away at Doom modding.
There's quite a bit more intricacies and even themes to your rooms. Poolrooms, McMansions & Apartments, office buildings, even department store layouts, etc. All just off enough to push that uncanny valley & bad dream feeling. I also enjoyed the use of a more "natural" hazard that endangers the protagonist here, rather than going for the loud spooky monster cliche.
Look forward to seeing more. Normally I'd mock the protagonists for being so curious, but I'd probably be right there behind them if I was in the same environment.
Thanks for another video, Matt. These are work of art.
I know hype in the liminal space has settled down a bit over the last few months, I hope you continue to make content (if you’re passionate about it, of course)
You do amazing work, the architecture and ambience are incredible
What a gorgeous experience. Especially love the liminal apartment set and childhood nostalgia audio element.
日本人だけどこの景色見たことあるのよな。。こういう動画大好き、日本でももっと広がって欲しい。
OMG Thank you so much for coming back with this awesome video!! You make one of the best Exploration Footage ever...
What i love the most about your work, is if you just pause it at any time it looks like an actual liminal space photo
The house room was so uncanny and I think it perfectly represents the feel of liminal space. Awesome video, with no overused entities or silly jump scares!!
such an under appreciate talent man, this is so cool. perfect blend of familiar and absolutely-eerie-as-hell, amazing job ! also at 5:00 the stairs were very trauma show vibes, which is ironic because at least i’m that they signified an escape…
This is so cool! And the sound design is so good, too! The ambient buzzing/whooshing, and the way it changes to fit the surroundings, is really immersive. I'm gonna watch this over and over
Months of waiting were worth it, your editing work hasn't changed, it's still incredible. The mysterious atmosphere and comfortable silence, but at the same time scary. And as always, the ending makes me even more curious about what's to come in the next videos. I'll always be here, I look forward to the next videos, no matter how long it takes.
Randomly thought of checking on your channel a few minutes ago and what an unexpected surprise to find this! (Sorry in advance, this comment turned out wayyyyyy longer than I expected, lol.)
Like a lot of people in the comments have said, I really appreciate how you handle the nostalgia-dread factor of the backrooms. I have so many dreams like this, almost every night, of massive buildings that are some combination of things from my childhood like a shopping mall or a house. Maze-like buildings that seem to never end and make more sense in the dream than when I wake up and think back on it, but yet there's still something unsettling about them even in the dream when I'm the most convinced that they're real. And your videos capture that feeling better than anything else I've seen.
I really liked how you included '90s coloring in this one as well; those faded pinkish and green tones at the start were very reminiscent of old Taco Bells or old malls from my earliest memories. It adds so much to that feeling of... nostalgia mixed with dread mixed with the knowledge that something is off, but you don't quite know what, because everything looks normal at first glance, but then you find that you either can't or don't want to look again. Having the viewer confined to the single POV of the camera definitely adds to the overall experience; we already can't see what's around the next corner (and there are so many!) and then to not even be able to look from side to side unless the cameraman does? Genuinely one of the most effective ways to evoke loss of control through media.
Lastly, I've said this before on another one of your videos, but I still really appreciate your lack of true jump scares - especially because they make the few scary moments even scarier. Obviously the whole concept of the video is scary, but like in footage #3 when the chair falls over after the cameraman leaves the room, you have a lot of buildup with walking around and feeling tension and anxiety rise, and then something happens at the very end and it's subtle! But it's even more horrifying for its subtlety. I couldn't see what was moving at the far end of that hall, it was too blurry and the camera was too shaky. But that just made it twenty trillion times scarier. Well done as always, Matt. I eagerly await the next installment of this series.
I really appreciate your feedback and kind words, I’m very glad you enjoyed the video and I hope you enjoy the next one too!
Love the architecture here - truly surreal and kinda makes me wish I could experience living in a house with such a surreal layout. It'll be weird, but potentially relaxing and refreshing for how unique it is. Bravo on your latest entry to your Poolrooms series! I appreciate when Backrooms videos go all in on the surreal architecture layouts.
Best poolrooms video I’ve seen so far. The transition from the house to the poolrooms is so uncanny but feels real
Your channel is by far my favorite take of the Backrooms/Poolrooms and I havent watched the video yet, you don't know how excited I was to see you upload.
Hes back! 👌🏻
We seen new areas within the backrooms in this one.
It seemed as if it did a full circle from the earlier videos you did like the character stumbled into an area the previous guy was.
The level of creativity was on point.
This was definitely the best thus far.
The owl caught me off guard.
There was a level of déjà vu in the beginning for myself when he was on the balcony.
I could watch your vids all day Matt.
I’m just glad to have you back buddy.
Thank you for what you’re doing man!
Knocked it outta the park.
Wait what video was this I totally missed that
@@minecraftkid50978 "the mall" used in all 4 videos is essentially the center room, where the filmer always ends up back in the mall regardless of the path they take and basically travels in an incomprehensible loop. every time the mall has appeared, its always been a different part of it. the platform at 5:55 in this video is the same platform you can see at the 4:57 mark in the exploration #2 video from the ground perspective.
Actually insane attention to detail; there are even outlets scarcely scattered on some walls
I'll take it one step further than what others have said. This isn't just the best Backrooms video I've seen, it's the best found footage I've ever seen. Better than anything Hollywood has churned out. That ending is the best and most terrifying reveal in any "haunted house" piece of literature or film. It's chilling without revealing anything, yet you don't feel shorthanded or ripped off. The perfect disturbing payoff.
I’m so glad you enjoyed the video, I really appreciate your support!
@@MattStudiosAnimations You're welcome! I'm currently reading House of Leaves and your videos perfectly capture that frantic, wrenching sense of being lost in a place that shouldn't exist.
Matt never fails to deliver. This one was another festival of uneasy scenarios and also used some previous videos.
Nailed it!
The "House rooms" or whatev is my fave aesthetic. Most relateable and I've had lots of dreams about them even before liminal spaces became popular.
GJ and very nice aesthetics overall.
i love the architecture so much, what a fantastic pool room video :D Every room seems different and I would probably hate to be in every single on of them. Great work ^^)
This is pure fever dream; a perfect blend of alluring and menacing.
the poolrooms are a personal fave as always (and yours in particular hit just right), but i was really really pleasantly surprised by the “not-house” portion in the beginning
Amazing stuff, honestly I prefer this kind of implied horror for this kind of content, your ability to build atmosphere is incredible
Thank you for this. I like everything except the bird call jumpscare and the last scene lol. Made me wake up from the nice dream and I wish if I am noclipped into a PoolRoom I should be equipped either with a donut float, or a full scuba diving set so I won't drown. I can just stay exploring in the PoolRoom forever.
Your videos continue to amaze me! This kept me on the edge of my seat lol. Get this man more subs
Thank you for bringing back areas that are lit up! When you can make a place unsettling even when it has a lot of light, you know you have a winner, and this is a winner as it is very creepy
I've have been patiently waiting for uploads from this channel and it has paid off! So happy to see the new content, my favorite channel for backrooms content.
Love your videos, honestly I think I like them more than Kane Pixels. The ambiance is so on point. The lighting and the architecture. Everything.
I enjoy how there's this Idyllic quality that is unnerving at the same time. I can imagine people and families here once. Enjoying a shared pool. But absent of people. It is so creepy and disturbing. Also the way your videos make me feel truly lost. Keep it up
I liked the 5:00 mark. Because it felt to me. Like the backrooms themselves were kind of dreaming. As though Even in the orders it makes for itself..there is a subconscious that arranges things foreign even to it's own self
Congrats for your collaboration with Netflix for the marketing of Squid Game 2 ! You deserve it. 🎊
This is soooo awesome man! Definitely keeps on hitting the nail on the head (there's more nail than brain in my head now)
Glad to see some new videos! Nice references to some earlier videos in the series and it really has an unnerving but not frightening feel throughout.
Best pool room vids on the net. Your skill in blender for realistic water behaviour is also the best. Good job.
They sure are, and I've seen alot
Your lighting is always PERFECT. Truly a master at it.
This channel is phenomenal. I’ve never seen any other videos that capture the feeling of a dream/memory so perfectly.
I can't believe I've only just found this .... I've been into liminal spaces for like a decade ... I love these! They're so amazingly done the sensory experience feels real. I'd love to work on something like. . I have my own imaginings of liminal spaces I'd love to create! New sub
4:11 the mourning dove is a nice touch very nostalgic somehow
The mourning birds cooing sent me on a nostalgia trip right back to when I was a little toddler.. great work as always
amazing!!! love the resedential areas at the beginning. 10/10
I didn't even know I liked this genre until I saw your videos. They're VERY well done!
4:51 There is something about places that should be outside but being indoor, I can't explain. Love it.
Keep up with the great work!
upon sighting this and rusters new video in my subscription feed, i felt excitement, this video was pretty cool, with all the bizarre architecture and the scene at the end
I'm so excited to have more of your poolrooms footage. Honestly, probably my favorite backrooms stuff.
awesome work as always!
Easily my favorite poolrooms series. Thanks for your hard work
Forgot you uploaded this awhile back as i was looking forward to checking it out, finally got around to it. As usual wasnt dissapointed!
I just love your works. My comfort video
What I love about Backrooms-type videos is the architecture, and YOU do it better than anyone else.
When the world needed him most, he returned
Man you perfectly encapsulate what rooms in my dreams look like
The master of poolrooms is back! This was so good. I appreciate how you are building a small plot without dialogue or stablished characters
This channel respects what I love about the backrooms concept more than any other props for that
you really have a knack for having architectural elements be placed in an unsettling and unnatural way ! i know its poolrooms focused, but i'm fond of the beginning segment inside the 'house.' very similar to some nightmares i've had lol
edit: also wanted to say the natural walking camera movement really sells the illusion !
your videos always fit that perfect mix of odd comfort and confusion for me. i love to just rewatch these with headphones and immerse myself, pretend its me and just feel it lol
This is truly special. I love how there are little to no dead ends, with an alternate option for exploration everywhere. It mirrors exactly how I'd explore such a space. Alway interested and curious to go forward, trying more and more desperately to remember how to get back. At least until the end when it's too late!
It's never perfectly comfortable, and there's always a little foreboding in the atmosphere.
It's the perfect final touch. I'd love this in a VR mode!
ive been waiting for another release of the exploration footage you make for a while now and this release seriously did not dissapoin. Keep up the good work
Absolutely great. I especially like the fact that it looks so realistic, as I someone had used a Home Movie Camera.
4:45 that build up with all the beautiful sounds of nature and then bam.... deafening ceiling lights. This is beautiful, your environment designs are by far the best. The first house sequence was harrowing, it felt like a haunted house video where the ghost is all of the environment itself. 1:35 random death traps and environment that never feels safe no matter where you stand. Every inch of the room is uncomfortable to look at and uncanny
Literally amazing, glad you’re back!!!!!! Also the ending was fantastic
this is absolutely top-tier poolrooms. bravo.
YESSSSS!!!! Finally. Haven't watched it yet but here's a like in advance ❤
Edit: awesome footage. You feel familiar with it yet still a lot of things seem out of place... just that uncanny valley feeling. Awesome work 👏
The water flood part is really creative good workb
How is nobody else mentioning this? You can see that at 5:52 he seems to have found his way back to the route he first took, but now on the 'balcony' visible in the previous footage. But at that part of the series he was walking in the water in the room!
What's striking is that he doesnt recognize the place he was initially familiar with. This scene could highlight the psychological toll of the backrooms, showing how being lost in endlessly repeating rooms disconnects him from his own sense of orientation and memory.
The final scene, where he is trapped and about to drown, might even symbolize hopelessness and being consumed by fear.
It's almost as if he is unable get out of his head, drowning is his mind and unable to escape the madness. Maybe it's stretch, but I thought it was an interesting perspective to share.
The bridge with the owl noises is so dreamlike
Wow this is actually one of the best I've seen yet! Thank you for creating this for us all to experience!
This is so amazing. The atmosphere is just top tier 👌
Love it! I'm surprised this is the first time I've seen the water itself be a hazard, but it works better than the SCP-esque monsters that many creators default to (which do work in many cases, but are overused by many (I also like truly solitary liminal spaces, so there is a bias of course :P ))
Beautiful work and great story telling without saying a single word. Uploaded Just as I'm getting back into the backroom's lore and learning blender so Thank you Very much, I Really enjoyed it and I'm looking forward to future videos.
You are one of the best Backrooms creator for me. Hope there is more to come someday.
The Storyline with the entry in the house is so creepy.