The moment he got seperated was really interesting. He heard a crowd of people, but the fact that the camera recorded it as well means that it wasn’t just in his head, the sounds were actually coming from SOMETHING
I think the single smartest thing this series has done is had a giant, shrieking monster in the first video and the first video only. Just the knowledge of what any of these people are actually in danger of encountering really ratchets up the suspense.
Yes! The whole time I was like, is this from the same guy who made the one with the monster??? I need to remember so I know whether to expect one or not! 😨
There are several ways I've been breaking this down. Honestly, I saw that video a few weeks ago because it ended up in my feed. I started it, and couldn't look away. I'm still confused about what this is all about, but my guess would be the art of exploiting ones fear. The ending, falling from the sky and almost feeling immanent death after the creature chased you around, was very real feeling. I also think about it from the creature's point of view, having someone, like an alien being show up in your domain, where you are familiar with the layout and are potentially acting out of fear. That's kind of a terrifying thought in itself. But fuck that thing, it's evil and doesn't deserve my sympathy. Plus he kicked me out of a spaceship without a parachute. I'm still salty.
His expression of panic at the moment his colleagues disappeared and became completely lost was absolutely realistic and terrifying. I would react in the same way if I found myself in the same situation.
I love how in this series, there’s so many opportunities for jump scares that aren’t taken. It really builds up the tension and feeling of dread and is a breath of fresh air from the usual ‘jump scare every 2 minutes or it’s not scary’ template.
I love how the backrooms are well lit too! Too many horror movies rely on being dark and poorly lit to be scary. Horror in the daytime is even scarier in my opinion.
The one small detail that I loved in this video (I love everything) is that they reference 2/29/1990 which is not a date as 1990 was not a leap year. Fun fact.
Based on the new found footage today, it's likely what he heard / got distracted by was a crowd in the real world, near a threshold/null zone that seems to be in a crowded place.
The fear in his voice after he realizes he’s no clipped is so terrifying and it makes you anxious knowing that we don’t know if he’s alone in there, great work kane you’ve outdone yourself on this one
the thing is I thought whoever no clipped ended up in the back rooms, but he was already there. They can all still no clip then while they are in there ?
I haven’t seen any comments on this yet so I just wanted to point out how effective the use of a VA is here! Usually in analog horror series nowadays all the narration is done by text to speech, but the use of a VA (and a good one at that) makes this more immersive than it already is. All the small details you put into this series are noticed and make it even better!
@@tartatovsky Do you have a source on that being how the camera work is done, makes sense as a way to easily put together human looking camera movement, but it could have been done in a variety of ways
I think this video in particular is the perfect representation of the backrooms. It's supposed to be a feeling of unease, tension, and uncanny dread due to liminal space rather than scary monsters and jump scares. I feel like the internet kinda screwed up by latching onto a generic Slenderman type bipedal monster that screams and chases you as "the entity" instead of something far more immaterial and ghost-like. Something whose presence can be felt and has agency of actions, but whose form is rarely physical but is changing and hard to comprehend when it is.
Have you ever seen the Russian science fiction movie "Solaris"? (It was remade in the US a few years ago, but the original is much better.) You wrote, "...something far more immaterial and ghost-like. Something whose presence can be felt and has agency of actions, but whose form is rarely physical but is changing and hard to comprehend when it is." This is the heart of "Solaris." It's about a group of astronauts who travel to another planet, and what they experience there--a series of ghostlike shifts in perception and apparitions, their own loved dead somehow returned and alive again, and more. These mysterious, frightening events are the work of the planet's living ocean, itself a sentient being which is deliberately influencing their minds. It's incredibly eerie, haunting and fascinating, full of classic "uncanny valley" moments. Based on your comment here, I think you'd like it.
So in essence, you want the backrooms ITSELF to be the entity, toying with inhabitants like the time-skip and noises we see here? Because just a constant corridor of "liminal spaces" by itself certainly isn't unsettling that much, just boring. There has to be some threat lol
@@KevinJohnson-cv2no yep yep yep. it doesn’t bother me that the entities exist i actually like that but it becomes too much of a focus in some videos, the actual scary part is how unsettling and uncomfortable the whole thing is
@@KevinJohnson-cv2no It sounds boring until it happens. In source games (like Garry's Mod), liminal spaces are everywhere. In Garry's Mod specifically, there is a Backrooms map. Although you know you're not alone, you constantly feel stressed out, like something's watching you. Now, imagine that exact feeling, but you _cannot escape it._
I think that the scariest part is when he gets separated from the group, the constant fear that something is around the corner or is lurking in the shadows, it's scares me.
This one guy is putting entire production companies to shame in terms of both animation and storytelling skills. I like how the wallpaper at 5:30 transitions from a recognizable pattern to looking like a texture that's been stretched out to infinity, and I love the building at 5:50. I don't know if it's the placement or the lighting, but there's something beautifully wrong about it.
I think the buildings look wrong because they are a 3D object that is projected on a flat plane and then slightly stretched. That combined with the lighting of the flashlight is just... off. Our brains don't like that.
I felt the same drop in my stomach once he got separated from the group, knowing it was over. You’re doing a fantastic job. I love how this goes back to the same unknown nature of the backrooms that made it scary, yet you’ve made your own twist on it, with government involvement and such
but we had that pretty detailed drawing of backrooms map at the end... So he might've made it out alive. Or maybe they just found his camera and tried to restore the surroundings. either way - storing things in a dimension that will randomly teleport them away isn't a good idea.
Yeah I hate that feeling of dread sooo much. I get upset just thinking about it. But here I am feeling dreadful for this guy.....and for some odd reason, I want more! Brilliant.
At 3:10 you can hear him yell, "Marvin!" which really does mean that Marvin was there since day one. So Marvin just ended up taking his role as a cameraman.
@@minecraft-thebackrooms106it’s pretty much confirmed now though, with the release of reunion, Marvin clearly knows Peter and knows he went missing months ago
Key takeaways: When the guy with the camera enters the narrow hallway it might be a form of "Null zone", because the rest of the team didn't hear/notice him whilst being there. It might very well be that he had already "disappeared" and thus was unable to be noticed. The red wire the rest of the team was carrying dissappeared, perhaps indicating that he was gone for an unditermined amount of time (the team gave up on finding him, and thus went back through the portal. The darker room might indicate the precense of imperfections with the backrooms design (imperfect calcuclations), as the hallway leading to its enterence shrinks in height. The room differs due to having different wallpaper, no lights as well as distorted objects (large and small wheelbarrow). When the individual is in the "theater" area, automated subtitles show "Applause". The individual must have survived getting lost, because the last schematic shows the room he was in as a place for the portal to open up, the "threshold" linking "Standard" with the "complex" (hence the found footage). As he arrives to the door he is heard with a mix of laughing and crying (sign of relief), this together with an alarm activating when he spoke indicates this is a part of protocol to retrieve lost personel.
My theory for the last part when the alarm came on is: They knew about the monster in the last found footage video, hence the Async facility setup an alarm and defense system in case of that monster getting through. And in my opinion... the dude died due to the defense system. Everything else you mentioned tho. I totally agree with
I have a theory for the room with the tree wallpaper and the wheelbarrows. It may not be a good one. If this whole place was created by something that doesn't quite understand human architecture, could it be whatever "it" is trying to simulate the outdoors? You have a house with "trees" surrounding it( the wallpaper), and fairly normal items you might find in someone's garden, an axe and wheelbarrows. One of the windows in the house was even made of glass. Could be entire wrong but that's how I seen it.
I think you're pretty much right. The idea of the Backrooms seems to be a real-life version of copying and pasting models and textures from reality. It's like an A.I. algorithm trying to replicate aspects of our world in this strange other plane of reality.
Maze horror has always relied on fear induced by experiencing something close to the uncanny valley. I think the reason something uncanny is frightening is that it presents that a thing is trying to deceive us to let our guard down. The implication of course is horrifying. To put so much effort in deceiving us to make us vulnerable implies that the effort in preying on us must be at least equal to this effort in deceiving us, to make up for it. An infinite uncanny maze, so infinite horrors.
I think the creepiest part is how uncommon these places are. Similar to the outside area from pitfalls, it's just down a hall while the majority of the place is typical yellow wallpaper backrooms. Like it's a hidden area for experimenting with things you don't quite understand and don't want anyone to see yet.
My take is that the room was no clipped from a section of the complex that takes place in the future. In Presentation, async announces that they want to build residential and commercial districts. It could be that they went far into their developments before things go horribly wrong. I could be wrong but we'll definitely get more answers to this mystery.
Everything seemed so fine for this dude till the voices got him off the path and then the fact that he basically glitched away from the path and his group just made me full of fear. The simple fact that simply trailing off can get you lost so easily and maybe forever trapped brings back the fear that the backrooms had back when it first was made.
It was really fucking stupid of him to panic and start looking for them ngl. All the time I was just screaming in my head for him to go back the way he came from. Even if he couldn't find the exit because the halls were randomized or something he could have at least tried.
@@MCTogs the fact he followed suspicious voices was something he shouldn’t do at all. Like that is horror movie survival 101, don’t follow disembodied voices that seem close.
The really scary thing is there's something very similar to this in the Missing 411 phenomenon (which is 100% really happening). People in those cases have a tendency to disappear when they're last in a group or whenever there's a point of separation. Sometimes they're found alive with memory loss, but most of the time they're either found deceased or never found at all.
I wasn’t into the whole backrooms lore, I’m fact I didn’t really even know it existed. But man, these are addicting. The talent.. While I’ve since looking into it, this stands on its own as pure horror entertainment, for people who don’t even know what backrooms are. Everything about it done to a degree where it feels so eerie and creepy and this visceral anxiety. It’s great.
Pretty much the same thing as slender man from /x/ on 4chan. Backrooms had lore like 10 years ago at least. 4chan has been controlling internet culture for the last decade it’s amazing. Creepypastas becoming a series of videos is so cool because you can visualize it without just reading about it. I’m about 10 years older than this kid (if the whole “SIXTEEN YEAR OLD DID THIS”) thing isn’t fake. I’m assuming they have a team of very skilled people working on this. A ton of people give credit to one kid who is supposedly young. Highly doubtful, but impressive regardless
I gotta say, The sound of fear in his voice as soon as the other people dissapear and he screams out for them is so real. The shaking of the camera and when he finds the room with the pc and servers in it. his breath is shaking (in my assumption) cause he cant believe he made it out. But when the Alarm goes off he starts to realize that he is not yet save at all. All in all better than any Horror movie made from Hollywood
Anyone wondering I just came back from reunion and I think this is the guy that they find, you can hear him say Marvin after he gets teleported and that’s why they recognize eachother, and I think Marvin took his place as camera man just a theory. Edit: I can’t believe how much attention this got most likes on a post I’ve ever had, thanks everyone.
I can't imagine how hopeless and terrifying that would feel. To be casually walking and chatting with work buddies one moment, to suddenly alone in a room that seems to have changed itself around. Suddenly, you're lost, questioning your sanity, and unsure if you'll ever see someone familiar again...
I actually just realized something. This main character is the lucky one. His coworkers and the team lead are the ones who no-clipped somewhere else. He remained in the same place. I just don't know what's gonna happen to him now that he discovered the secret lab.
@@leociresi4292 its actually the observation room constructed by them in later videos, meaning he just got shoved a bit farther into the future and was able to get back to his fellow scientists, hence why they were able to recover the video footage (from a lore standpoint)
That’s on y’all’s obsession with that kind of stuff. I never expected anything like that and got some delicious content regardless. Maybe even more so due to not having any idea at all of what to expect
Honestly if the hazmat team didn't use the same walk animation and holding something in the same hand in the same pose I wouldn't have guessed it was animation
It's not animated, not all of it. You can kinda see author isn't that skilled at animating creatures from Found Footage. This is either an insanely good mocape, or (most probably) a ton of green screens, VFX effects, actual prop building, and maybe a VR headset to capture main camera's motion. So it's like adding real humans into 3d rendered scene, and this requires solid skill.
@@koyooko5160 i think he uses mixer and blender. it's rlly hard to make something realitsic, yet alone scary, he did an amazing job for just 16. imagine what he could do in 5 years?! im excited for his new stuff in the future!
This truely depicts what being lost feels like, All you want is to backtrack and find something familiar but end up stumbling upon more unfamiliar areas getting deeper and deeper and even more lost than before.
So they were concerned bc the layout had changed, not all the audio communication is easy to understand which is a nice touch, and then he clips into a new instance, leaving him alone, finds glitched segmented portions of generation, and then one of the facility observation installations... So fascinating and immersive, keep up the great work Kane and everyone at Kane Pixels, by far this is my most obsessive fascination with horror and liminal spaces. In an era where horror has severely gone downhill, this completely revolutionizes and revamps the entire genre, amazing job and can't wait to see what's next!
I completely agree with you about horror. This new Backrooms is soo good and cant get enough. It seems like unlimited possibilities on what to create in this place. I'm sure whatever happens next we should be in good hands with Kane Pixels, absolutely killing it. 👍
Holy shit Kane you're a VFX god, you're getting so much better at this, it looks too real, keep it up you're brilliant!!!!!! Edit: For those asking, he uses Blender for the CGI
The sounding of the immense fear and sudden feeling of hopelessness is so strong, very well acting. The man quickly turned into a more vulnerable and weak state which makes this feel so much more surreal!
I don't know if there are other comments about this but I was putting together a timeline of all the videos and 1990 was not a leap year so the date that this supposedly happened is not an actual date in existence. the last day of February 1990 was February 28th. I'm guessing that this may have been affected by the supposed time travels happening in the backrooms
This feels like it's straying more and more from the actual Backrooms lore and I think it's way better for it. I feel the tension and suspense in these videos, I feel way more terrified by the concept of this place, than I do by the actual lore of the backrooms, maybe part of it is because of how gamified it all sounds, where everything is categorized by levels, with highly specific and detailed ways to go into other levels, with generic loot and things like that. While most of backrooms content is like "oh yeah be sure to pack a few bottles of Almond Water before going into this level", this series makes it all look way more alien, something eldritch and unknown, instead of just some glitchy game.
I personally think that kinda ruins it. The more you try to explain somthing the less scary it becomes. Because that implies that it can be understood and in fact people do understand them. It also implies that people have been through the whole thing and mapped it out. It ruins the mystery and mystique of them and makes them FAR less creepy imo. Edit: I also hate how its explained as a glitchy game with "levels". other than how you get there; I think that fits pretty well. I feel like it shouldn't be explained at all and just left as this mysterious, senseless space just outside of reality.
I *LOVE* how the backrooms "separated" the person from the rest of the group! How even with a team of people who know exactly what they're getting into (literally), they can still be fooled into being trapped! Very cool
I can feel the fear and sudden panic when he realizes he's been seperated from the group, so much it legit makes me get huge anxiety. Outstanding work.
you'd think people trained to explore the backrooms would have learned to stay put when they get lost, but he immediately begins to wander as much as possible... also amazing scenery and freaky atmosphere, really good
Could be maybe if you stay in one spot for too long the threat levels increase. My guess is there needs to be constant movement otherwise the creatures could find you/detect you easier but that’s just a guess.
@Señor Why Me actually yes, downplaying is exactly what you’re doing lol. If it’s so easy to make something this good ld love to see you make something better
Amazed your stuff is animated in Blender - honestly looks fully live action, with sets and everything. I can't stand horror, but the sheer /mystery/ to this liminal labyrinth and all the... something that seems to be lurking within it has me hooked. Apparently there's deeper context to this from earlier internet stuff, too? Amazing...! Immensely invested in this series of yours, and eagerly awaiting for whatever comes next...!
I'm assuming he was lured by something into one of those null zones that was mentioned in a previous video, which is some sort of unstable zone in the backrooms between dimensions. I wonder if the alarms went off because his suit had the fungus on it, so the room was contaminated and was alerting any workers inside that they had to evacuate. Super interesting stuff, having loads of fun theory-crafting :) Keep it up!
Also weird side note: I noticed that it says Feb 29th 1990, but Feb 1990 only had 28 days. Could be intentional for some reason, could also be a minor mistake
He better get a reward for this stuff, if anyone on TH-cam deserves best creator of the year, it’s him. Idk if thats a real award or not but still, he needs to be praised highly
One of the reasons I love this series is that every time I watch it, I notice something new. Has anybody noticed that at 4 minutes in, footsteps are mixed in with all that black crud on the ground? I just noticed that, and it's at least my 10th time watching this particular episode.
This is probably the most terrifying video of this whole series in my opinion. The worker who seemingly time traveled, knew how easy it was to get lost. It’s absolutely chilling when you hear the fear in his voice after he realizes he might be stuck there forever.
@@sickboy9902 I think probably not knowing what's is to come is more terrifying. Atleast you know how, where, and what is following you, it would aslo give a huge advantage of knowledge on how to survive in and possibly escape the backrooms.
@@tibbles53 in hindsight it's more terrifying to not know what's to come, but in the present time knowing somethings after you is always scarier than not knowing
@@thiccboisauce172 I would say up until the point you know your not alone it's better to not know, but after that I would definitely want the advantage of knowing.
@@sickboy9902 the man who gets lost, he knew that the backrooms was full of the unknown, to put it bluntly. He knew that there was no escaping once you’re lost, but also didn’t know what he would come across. To summarize it, he knew his death was coming, just not how.
As a professional audio engineer, I wanted to praise your audio and sound design work. And I know I'm not the only one, as should be the case with this stuff, but this content is beyond TH-cam. This is film level both in visual, audio and general theme. I would love to see you exploring imersive audio (Dolby Atmos, Binaural HRTF etc.) and see if you could incorporate it into a camcorder style video. It would be a challenge don't get me wrong, but maybe there's some unique ways to add some of those elements in without disrupting the main feel/concepts. Absolutely stellar work and some of the best on the platform at the moment. A real legend! :D
Kane has really got the back rooms down here. I always hated the whole thing the internet did where they filled it with lore and all these different levels and clearly defined creatures..completely destroyed the back room concept. But here we have it, the mystery the isolation, the quiet, nothing is certain at all. You’ve got the architecture, clearly constructed by something that doesn’t understand human buildings, the lack of sound.
Ikr and the internet got even more ridiculous with each level having bases and civilizations. The whole point of the back rooms is that your isolated in a strange, oddly nostalgic place, not some adventure with other people... This vid actually makes sense because the only travel is a government expedition and these vids record all the unsettling anomalies happening during it.
I personally like the whole different levels idea, adds a new depth for lore and creativity but I agree none of them have the same level of unease and unique 'vibe' as Level 0 or the 'Backrooms'
Keeping the concept ominous and foreboding is a minimalistic but clever way to invoke the sense of uneasiness. Everything is undefined, disconnected from reality, but vaguely familiar, as if these places exist in a distant memory or long forgotten dreamscape.
he was probably banished back into backrooms by async and Ivan Beck after that call, so async didn't have to explain what happened to him and how did he disappeared for 2 months. Also the sealed off entry to pitfalls (from Report video) was already open in the beginning of Reunion video, which kind of confirms this.
They were legit because of clip from "Presentation". Peter (cameraman) probably got sent back to The Complex because Async already faked his d34th (My comment probably would not be deleted, this isn't TikTok or something but I want to be sure my comment still will be here, that's why I censored it).
Bro that guy in reunion is different guy if you listen closely in one of the parts you can hear the guy in reunion says: yes its me steve edit: and if that guy was dumped in the backrooms why would async (or ivan beck) would allow the reunions exploration
@@45f3f34f Yeah I think you are right because the guy in "reunions" is wearing something completely different then the cameraman for this video who shows back up in "presentation". My theory is that the guy in "reunions" is some other employee who was put back in the backrooms and that he has been affected in some way by the mold entity there because in "reunions" he isn't wearing a hazard suit and looks as if he is covered in mold.
I think i understand now. The room he finds at the end is the lab room that A-SYNC was making in the video labeled (motion detected). So he ends up finding his way back to the threshold, but at a later time. His disappearance might be why they decided to film the main rooms near the threshold. Maybe next time we'll get to see more of that abstract house wall he found ( he seem real interested).
I genuinely can't tell if the people in the backrooms are cg or real people somehow edited into the space... it's so fuckin well done. I remember seein the old man in one of your attack on titan cg animations and that looked amazin but ya could still tell it was cg... just look how far ya've come. This is superb! Seriously, well done on this!
The old man in the attack on titan video is not cg, its just composited in. The people here are CG, it looks like he's using mocap data for the animation as it is quite realistic movement . Although it could be hand animated I'm not sure. The hardest thing to fake in cg is the human face which is why you never see the faces of the suit people.
I love this because even being in a fully cgi environment the camera movement LOOKS real. I hate CGI videos that have that horrid over done camera shaking and zooming. This looks like it was filmed by a real person.
i do vfx myself and this is very good its confusing how he made it im trying to figure it out. the camera motion is what sells the effects so well. Oh and of course the VHS style overlay takes away detail from the environment so its easier to sell. awesome shit !
I like that coming back after FF3 you can actually figure out why there's noises at 2:44 , the fabric of reality is weak enough in that area to allow for some random occupied building to be heard by tench, just like how Ravi spoke to the father he "met" in the alternate version of his house.
Regardless of the creator’s age or how good the VFX are, this is simply an example of excellent visual story telling. Thank you for doing the work to make this happen Kane.
Yeah but i hate the fact that it got overdone by adding "levels". The backrooms comunity even made the level here displayed (level 0) completely harmless and obsolete. According to them it is now threatless and without any monster. Just like any creepypasta it got oversaturated with stuff, but these cgi animations are a breath of fresh air, encapsulating what the backrooms are actually like
I think the environments you've created are far more terrifying and fitting of the Backrooms than most of the games I've seen on Steam about it. Usually, it's a really boring basic maze. No clipping environments or weird anomalies, just a simple maze of yellow walls and some monsters.
@@dontkickmychick6076 scale isn’t really a problem. Minecraft world is a good example edit: if we’re not talking about the levels, but i prefer the original concept of only one level
@@belkYT yeah, that’s not very suitable for the game. But if we talk about it in the context of real life, then the concept from the original creepypasta seems to me the most frightening
How are you making stuff that looks this good this fast? When the video started I was thinking "oh okay it's going to be 8 minutes of company instructional material, mostly text and diagrams, okay." But then no, of course somehow there's another 5 minutes of full 3D photorealistic CG Backrooms exploration in there. This is nuts, I've never seen something like this on TH-cam, certainly not coming out at this blistering rate. Just remember to take breaks if you need.
This man is my age yet he's pumping out LITERAL MASTERPIECES in less than weeks, I can't even animate on dc2, yet he's making a backrooms horror series 300 times better than massive budget horror movies. Amazing.
@@corporalcardiolog9922 300 times better than big budget horror movies? It’s a good vid but not that good most of the models aren’t that polished and look kinda bad
8 freaking minutes in two weeks, and it’s movie studio quality. One word- HOW?! Don’t you have, like, high school or something?! This is absolutely AMAZING, especially given your age AND the time period. Absolutely blown away, as always.
@@jkeebla Even still.. with what we're seeing now... he has massive amount of potential. He could create some sort of epic horror movie with this sort of talent.
we did have quarantine and a few lockdowns over the past two years. i'd bet at-home schooling also helped cut down considerable amounts of time when he probably never left his work station.
Now this is impressive! I feel like this could well be the next big indie horror series on TH-cam that others will try and emulate, like Local58 and GHE, provided they keep pumping out videos of such high quality. I love the development and the attention to the small and often overlooked details, like how they actually got the footage in the first place. Fantastic work, I’m excited to see how it develops!
So I watched found footage 3 and I have a little theory. Before he got separated he heard a crowd of people 2:53 and right before he gets separated he says “hey!”.. in FF3 we know that the guy who got trapped was able to talk to someone from the other side of reality or whatever, the real world, what if the same thing happened here and the crowd couldn’t hear him because well, its a crowd. Another thing to kindaaa back this up is at 41:46 in found footage 3 the guy in the other side says “wtf” and we hear this sound and screaming which could maybe be correlated to the glitch the guy in this video experienced just less intense? Also in FF2 when the green thing happens near the end of the video it could also be that i don’t really know. One more thing, we know that in first contact someone says “there’s an obstruction”, in faultline we know that first contact causes a hugeeee earthquake, fires, power outages etc, and in missing persons report there’s a scene that says “if anything blame him” to me it seems like there is a “higher power” that is intruding in project KV31?? Maybe the bacteria was the obstruction (probably) and since they created a doorway to the back rooms it’s causing all of this to happen?? Idk but that’s what I was thinking about.. I’m currently rewatching the entire playlist and later tonight I’m gonna make a list of all of them in order (ik there are playlist out there but I want my own “source” and there are new vids out that aren’t in those) Edit: also I remember in pitfalls some text appears in the screen which adds to my “higher power” theory. I don’t remember all of it off the top of my head hence why I’m rewatching this series l.
It's existential fear. It's rooted in the nightmares we forget. This is essentially an emerging genre that feeds on the uncanny valley that our subconscious paints when influenced by reality but not inhibited by it.
After watching a few of the copycat videos I came to realize they are all animated environments. When I first saw this video, I was asking myself "where did he find such a large empty building / set to film this in". I'm embarrassed. Very well made.
My personal theory on how this version of the back rooms operates is: The scientists creating the back rooms knew that if they created space from nothing, it would be a completely random jumble of random materials. To avoid this, and to make the rooms more livable, they gave their “gateway machine” rooms to copy (this is supported by some of the images taken outside the backrooms as they seem very reminiscent of the rooms that we have seen inside the backrooms) . As we all know, this template idea sort of worked. With hallways seemingly becoming the dominant form of the backrooms. As seen by the very orderly hallways near the “gate” compared the the random hallways, the farther away one goes from the gate the more random and warped the rooms become. Here’s what the scientists truly forgot though. Their template rooms they gave their machine to reproduce had bacteria in them.
No, don’t. The more you explain it, the less spooky it becomes, like “Cube” or “Slender Man” you don’t understand it and that creates the fear, and, ironically by explaining it, just like the two I mentioned, it becomes less spooky. Don’t try to explain it, the fear of the unknown is a lot better than the fear of a couple scientists making an oopsie.
I always interpreted it as rather than the scientists creating the backrooms. They instead created a portal to them. Thus joing them to our world in a very physical sense. In their official report they imply they created the space as to not worry the government bigwigs.
You are really bringing back what makes the backrooms terrifying. No silly colonies and survivor based governments, goofy entities, etc. Just unknown terror and at least one genuinely creepy monster. I hope you keep this mystery vibe going. Excellent work my man!
Tbh, the colonies and stuff aren't what ruins the backrooms, it's more of the levels that don't keep that "liminal spaces" feel and stuff like that. Level 11 is one of my least favorites for that reason.
@@real4kGaming I'm personally of the camp that having a group of humans together is fine, but once they become too powerful like MEG and can just casually fend off the spooky ripoff SCPs, what is there to fear? The Backrooms shouldn't even have a place you recognize as a safe spot. EVERYTHING is liminal. Halls that lead from and to more halls, with no landmarks to let anybody catch their bearings. Level 11 is a culprit of breaking that rule, too.
@@Glory2Snowstar M.E.G is not too powerful it's just the largest, they are still limited by the resources inside the backrooms, also backrooms is liminal space, but it's not apart of the liminal spaces, it has it's own universe and lore, if you want to be alone then go back to liminal spaces. people really need to understand that the backrooms is not something you project your liminal spaces lore on, it's a separate thing to liminal spaces.
I really love that this version of The Backrooms was a government program that tried to solve a housing/storage crisis and accidentally caused...this. It's a very grounded idea that skates in to science fiction rather seamlessly.
5:31 this right here is perfection. I like how fake it looks and feels, pretty much like a bunch of .jpeg pictures clumped together mixed with somewhat realistic CGI. When the camera pans over to the left is a bunch of .jpeg weird looking ass objects like the wheelbarrow and an axe, then the .jpeg house further ahead to the left, just stamped on a wall... there's just something amusing and odd about fake looking objects like that just lying around. That can only enhance the overall 90s "strangely/oddly real" feeling of it. I wouldn't dare to further elaborate such a particular feeling. I somewhat feel like this whole "fakey" feel of it is kind of missing in Kane's newer videos as they're getting more realistic - that even actual actors are being introduced more and more - of course I don't really mind it, I still find the newer videos amazing, though I must say they're missing this very specific "fakey .jpeg feel" should I call it.
THIS is what the back rooms were always supposed to be. Not constructed into levels or creatures of what we know are capable of. this video is filled with the unknown and that is true horror
At the finish, it showed the rough sketch blueprints of the circuitry room and the eerie beeps the servers made leaves the viewer with a detached type of ending, like, what happened to the guy then? Did he find his way back? Did the other two finally meet up with him? You’re literally left in suspense
I don't mind there being different entities or scenarios with each Back Room clip because it adds to the mystery of the lore. The feeling of being alone in the unknown is scary, but the feeling of not being alone in the unknown can be scarier sometimes.
@@c0dejj853 I've been trying to figure out how he does it since the "Found Footage" video. At first I thought it was the combination of miniatures, real elements and CGI and now I think a lot of it is real and enhanced with CGI. Perhaps he's in a real, empty office complex and used green/blue screen walls and dividers, plus recorded the tracking points to be able to build it, enhance and add to it using 3D FX software. Also, the visual degradation of the video could make CGI a lot easier to hide. So interesting.
@@joellouisfire i would say he is recording the movement on his phone and simulating walking around and then he tracks the environment from the video he took and take the camera movement into the 3d space.
The perfect balance between the realism and CGI is what makes this covertly and utterly terrifying. Kane is literally a legend how he brings the Backrooms to life
@@iappearateveryfunction Yeah I thought so, no way my pc could render these within a month. (I know I should probably upgrade) Also makes sense, once he has the models created, it’s just a matter of reusing them and the animations where he needs them.
Everything about this series is absolutely amazing. I feel so invested and everything feels so real, from the exploration, the environments, and the mans nervous breathing feels scarily real after he gets separated from the group and is just wandering wandering around. It is almost like you are the man themselves, feeling scared and hopeless while exploring all alone now. I can't wait to see how it all continues. That fact that you are 16 from what I have seen throughout comments is mind blowing, and you should definitely take any breaks if needed.
Seconded on the taking breaks point. I don't think I'd have the work ethic for personal projects of this scale, quality control, and pace in my entire life. While it's incredibly admirable, there are many accounts of overambitious projects taking a bit too much from the creators. I'd hate to see that happen here.
I like how "The Backrooms" is an in-universe term the company uses for the experiment. It's a nice way of including the name without making it seem out of place. Good job as always Kane :)
This is better than high budget movie quality, it feels genuine, real, which is a feeling a lot of movies can’t generate regardless of their budget. Truly amazing!
the two are incomparable tho, one is filmed on multimillion dollar cameras in multimillion dollar sets full of entire landscapes of green shapes to make it as clear and clean as possible and the other is filmed likely entirely from an untextured model in a blender scene and then blurred to hell in post to ironically make it seem more real because it lacks polish
Blair witch was not a high end film, it cost them $20k to film, $200k to produce but I suppose it’s as real as it gets film wise because it’s just 3 people running around a forest with weird noises happening
@@ibuprofen-noodles probably accurate, I’m not entirely informed on camera controls in blender so things like the main character being grabbed and the camera falling in the found footage video were likely real
And now we know this links to 'Presentation'. The room toward the end turned blue when the lights turned off, then the alarm sounded when personnel came in. Seems like Kane really has the entire story mapped out and leaves no little detail left out. Leaves me at the edge of my seat every month!
It could also explain why Marvin could trapped down the chute he fell from. Towards the end of the video he's being pulled up by his team, but the very last clip shows that it suddenly stopped and the communication coming from his team is absent. He could have possibly warped in time and it could be a hint because the other person on his team mentioned the "null" zones earlier in the vid. Even more freakier would be that if its actually Marvin that the entity is imitating if he warped back in time and gets killed by the creature anyways. Perhaps this is why it didn't chase him any further because it noticed the crevice has a hazy distortion field.
Really interesting that the lost guy seems to find his way back to the threshold at a far later point in time, after the room in front of it has been built (which you can see is just starting construction as of March 1990 in the Motion Detected video). Have to wonder if he got displaced in time or if he was just wandering for that long.
My initial thought was he was displaced in time, and then upon returning to the threshold he’s detected as an anomaly of sorts. Imagine thinking you’re safe finally free from the back rooms only to be rejected from the world you know, maybe even sent back to aimlessly wander forever
As someone pointed out earlier notice how that giant monster from the Found Footage is the only time so far we've experienced any kind of chase or jumpscare. The rest of these videos simply talk about A-sync discovering and making expeditions into the Backrooms. It creates a sense of dread that there could be something lurking here and they don't know yet. If the theory that our guy here jumped forward in time a bit is right, then those alarms in that room he entered means shit went down before and they installed security measures in there to keep that thing out.
In life everything we look at we make choice/ value judgements on. Should I pick that up, should I talk to that person, should I go down that street ECT. What I think is so unsettling about the backrooms, is it is impossible to make value judgments on. Should I go right or left is a meaningless question there. It's a place that you cannot impose meaning on.
I like the time warped forward theory. I diike the idea that this is the exit he found. If it is then why is their no door to the rest of the facility in the video? I could just be blind but I don't see one. I think of the alarm location as a forward staging base that some scientists built into the backrooms. They even camped the door to look like the walls to fool the monster but not people.
There were a number of interesting things to point out in this video. I probably missed a whole lot but what I got was this. 1. The backrooms has multiple names in this universe and the public may already know of its exsitence. The tape said that it is prohibited to use names such as the backrooms in the public. this could either mean that they are still hiding it from the public, or it could mean that the public already knows, but government officials are trying to suppress the information by making government employees not use the slang names, and instead use the term possibly only known to govenment employees (project KV31). 2. The backrooms does not seem to have a fixed layout. I already suspected this by the strange way the first videos layout was, but this video pretty much confirms that the backrooms shifts its layout because the guy in the vid tried to backtrack only to find a completely different place. 3. The area from the archive video appears to be some sort of server room. This is just something to point out for people who missed it. That room he found was in the archive video. In the video you could see the window with the same computer at it. 4. The backrooms appears to either activley pull people apart from eachother using tricks, illusions, or teleportation, or have an entity in it that does so. 5. The backrooms has a number of areas that differ from the main pattern of yellow wallpaper rooms. When I first saw the found footage video, I thought the different area Kane went to was the creators interpritation of level 1, but it seems like it may have been either a place created by Async, or some random place similar to the one seen in this video that had the wheelberrow. The strange noises coming from behind the wall with the houses painted on it may have been sounds coming from the real world but this is purley speculation. Anyways, just wanted to organise my thoughts and figured I may as well share them with everyone else. If you have anything to add, or anything to correct me on, feel free to let me know in a comment.
I have one thing to comment on when the people entered and the guy got separated we found a place very similar to the place he entered from at the end but it wasn’t the same when he exit The back room by the computer rooms so the back rooms can apparently generate the same layout. by the way good results on everything else👍🏻
Look at the description, 02/29/1990 the 29th of February is a leap year day but on 1990. There wasn’t a leap year, so the character could’ve transported to a different universe
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oof I was first Thank you for the Playlist
This was amazing! I was on edge the whole time! Can't wait for more
These animations are amazing! I almost had a heart attack from these videos
The legend himself... this series is incredible, if anything you have massive amount of potential.
Please teach me sensei.
don’t leave us on a cliffhanger like that bro 😟
awesome stuff as usual man!!!!!!
mandela moment
Where Hank Go?
OH MY GOD!!!!!!!!!!
you should partner with kane
@@breadalidy3403 yeah
The moment he got seperated was really interesting. He heard a crowd of people, but the fact that the camera recorded it as well means that it wasn’t just in his head, the sounds were actually coming from SOMETHING
Interesting
But if the sound was really real then how the other three not hear it? He was the only one who heard it, so it can't be real.
@@GabrielCarvalho-kb8yv yea but the camera picked it up to
@@GabrielCarvalho-kb8yv aí é foda
@@GabrielCarvalho-kb8yv idk maybe a distortion in space where he was able to see them but had no real access to them? I’m not sure
I think the single smartest thing this series has done is had a giant, shrieking monster in the first video and the first video only. Just the knowledge of what any of these people are actually in danger of encountering really ratchets up the suspense.
It's so good
yeh expecting to be killed at almost any corner but nothing actually happening feels like real dread, it's nice
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Yes! The whole time I was like, is this from the same guy who made the one with the monster??? I need to remember so I know whether to expect one or not! 😨
There are several ways I've been breaking this down. Honestly, I saw that video a few weeks ago because it ended up in my feed. I started it, and couldn't look away. I'm still confused about what this is all about, but my guess would be the art of exploiting ones fear. The ending, falling from the sky and almost feeling immanent death after the creature chased you around, was very real feeling. I also think about it from the creature's point of view, having someone, like an alien being show up in your domain, where you are familiar with the layout and are potentially acting out of fear. That's kind of a terrifying thought in itself. But fuck that thing, it's evil and doesn't deserve my sympathy. Plus he kicked me out of a spaceship without a parachute. I'm still salty.
His expression of panic at the moment his colleagues disappeared and became completely lost was absolutely realistic and terrifying. I would react in the same way if I found myself in the same situation.
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@@COOLDRAGO60what
I would flip out more. Hide in a corner, miss my reality. Cry and hide, etc
Funny thing we know now... he is 1-10 months in the future now... HE disappeared
What expression? His face wasn’t shown
I love how in this series, there’s so many opportunities for jump scares that aren’t taken. It really builds up the tension and feeling of dread and is a breath of fresh air from the usual ‘jump scare every 2 minutes or it’s not scary’ template.
Agree entirely. Jump scares are the lowest form of "scary" in my opinion. Too easy to do.
Right ! I was thinking the same I keep waiting for the cheap jump scares but they never come.
I love how the backrooms are well lit too! Too many horror movies rely on being dark and poorly lit to be scary. Horror in the daytime is even scarier in my opinion.
Right? I was expecting one the whole time!
Nice view
the calm to frantic state, the crack in his voice from panicking..literally felt like actual, genuine fear. good job
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Literally after he get split off from his group
@@L16htW4rr10r u broke he chain
that wasn't a good job, it was a great job
The one small detail that I loved in this video (I love everything) is that they reference 2/29/1990 which is not a date as 1990 was not a leap year. Fun fact.
@@giancarlolorenzini6948 I love when people act dumb on purpose
@@giancarlolorenzini6948 Are u unsmart
What meaning it has?
@@dandanger5637 probably meaning that their universe isn't ours, or that the backrooms can interfere in the dates of the year ig?
@@dandanger5637 maybe that they were already in the backrooms before they entered
Based on the new found footage today, it's likely what he heard / got distracted by was a crowd in the real world, near a threshold/null zone that seems to be in a crowded place.
which also means that crowd was scarily close to clipping as well
The fear in his voice after he realizes he’s no clipped is so terrifying and it makes you anxious knowing that we don’t know if he’s alone in there, great work kane you’ve outdone yourself on this one
the thing is I thought whoever no clipped ended up in the back rooms, but he was already there. They can all still no clip then while they are in there ?
@@JonathanGonzalez-ty4vh He may have entered a "null zone" that was alluded to in an earlier video.
Your never alone in the backrooms… make friends with the things you’ll meet! :)
No clipped?
@@JonathanGonzalez-ty4vh I know right, I’m so confused, I never heard of no-clip-ception within the Backrooms
I haven’t seen any comments on this yet so I just wanted to point out how effective the use of a VA is here! Usually in analog horror series nowadays all the narration is done by text to speech, but the use of a VA (and a good one at that) makes this more immersive than it already is. All the small details you put into this series are noticed and make it even better!
What is a "VA"?
@@squishybrain voice actor
@K A D I E we serve food here sir
@@false_banana Thanks so much!
@K A D I E Sir, this is a Denny’s.
I still can't tell where the CGI ends and the practical effects begin. This is SO well made.
Everything was done in Blender. The camera work was done in VR
@@tartatovsky Do you have a source on that being how the camera work is done, makes sense as a way to easily put together human looking camera movement, but it could have been done in a variety of ways
@@williamsmith6921 it’s nearly impossible to mimic actual human movement in blender manually keyframe by keyframe, humans are too unpredictable
@@euph0rya672 but it is done on blender he said it on his Instagram
@@OzarkTrail-kk9nf well yeah he used vr for movement
I think this video in particular is the perfect representation of the backrooms. It's supposed to be a feeling of unease, tension, and uncanny dread due to liminal space rather than scary monsters and jump scares. I feel like the internet kinda screwed up by latching onto a generic Slenderman type bipedal monster that screams and chases you as "the entity" instead of something far more immaterial and ghost-like. Something whose presence can be felt and has agency of actions, but whose form is rarely physical but is changing and hard to comprehend when it is.
Have you ever seen the Russian science fiction movie "Solaris"? (It was remade in the US a few years ago, but the original is much better.) You wrote, "...something far more immaterial and ghost-like. Something whose presence can be felt and has agency of actions, but whose form is rarely physical but is changing and hard to comprehend when it is." This is the heart of "Solaris." It's about a group of astronauts who travel to another planet, and what they experience there--a series of ghostlike shifts in perception and apparitions, their own loved dead somehow returned and alive again, and more. These mysterious, frightening events are the work of the planet's living ocean, itself a sentient being which is deliberately influencing their minds. It's incredibly eerie, haunting and fascinating, full of classic "uncanny valley" moments. Based on your comment here, I think you'd like it.
So in essence, you want the backrooms ITSELF to be the entity, toying with inhabitants like the time-skip and noises we see here? Because just a constant corridor of "liminal spaces" by itself certainly isn't unsettling that much, just boring. There has to be some threat lol
@@KevinJohnson-cv2no yep yep yep. it doesn’t bother me that the entities exist i actually like that but it becomes too much of a focus in some videos, the actual scary part is how unsettling and uncomfortable the whole thing is
@@KevinJohnson-cv2no It sounds boring until it happens. In source games (like Garry's Mod), liminal spaces are everywhere. In Garry's Mod specifically, there is a Backrooms map. Although you know you're not alone, you constantly feel stressed out, like something's watching you. Now, imagine that exact feeling, but you _cannot escape it._
Does anyone know when exactly SCP anomalies/monsters began to show up in the Backrooms?
I think that the scariest part is when he gets separated from the group, the constant fear that something is around the corner or is lurking in the shadows, it's scares me.
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@@kfcmanager3199 what's that?
Sack of pacing
@@gameruchiha4947 what is that?
Lol the entire video i expected a jumpscare
This one guy is putting entire production companies to shame in terms of both animation and storytelling skills.
I like how the wallpaper at 5:30 transitions from a recognizable pattern to looking like a texture that's been stretched out to infinity, and I love the building at 5:50. I don't know if it's the placement or the lighting, but there's something beautifully wrong about it.
I think the buildings look wrong because they are a 3D object that is projected on a flat plane and then slightly stretched. That combined with the lighting of the flashlight is just... off. Our brains don't like that.
I personally love the stretched wheelbarrow at 5:34 I don't get scared easily but it just freaks me the fuck out.
@@Cody_Cigar you know he's done a good job when something as ordinary as that can unsettle us so easily. it's not right, it's painfully uncanny
Wow, great catch.
Not sure if it was done on purpose, but it cannot be unseen once noticed
@@Cody_Cigar Wow, didn't even notice it was supposed to be that. Creep factor just went up
I felt the same drop in my stomach once he got separated from the group, knowing it was over. You’re doing a fantastic job. I love how this goes back to the same unknown nature of the backrooms that made it scary, yet you’ve made your own twist on it, with government involvement and such
Same bruh
but we had that pretty detailed drawing of backrooms map at the end... So he might've made it out alive. Or maybe they just found his camera and tried to restore the surroundings.
either way - storing things in a dimension that will randomly teleport them away isn't a good idea.
@@lostgarbage4055 If I were to work for the government, storage would be the last thing on my mind.
Yeah I hate that feeling of dread sooo much. I get upset just thinking about it. But here I am feeling dreadful for this guy.....and for some odd reason, I want more! Brilliant.
did he make it back in the end?
At 3:10 you can hear him yell, "Marvin!" which really does mean that Marvin was there since day one. So Marvin just ended up taking his role as a cameraman.
It sounds more like horbin but marvin works as well
@@minecraft-thebackrooms106 sounds like morbin
@@minecraft-thebackrooms106it’s pretty much confirmed now though, with the release of reunion, Marvin clearly knows Peter and knows he went missing months ago
It sounds more like a "what happen!"
@@TMP876 bro waited 1 year for that joke
The quality is on par with, if not better than, a big budget tv show. I can’t get enough of it
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not to mention, he's 16!
Don't get ahead of yourself, at times it literally looks like Garry's Mod. Still good though, camera work is excellent.
amogus
That’s because the “big budget” tv shows don’t spend the big budget on quality…
Key takeaways:
When the guy with the camera enters the narrow hallway it might be a form of "Null zone", because the rest of the team didn't hear/notice him whilst being there. It might very well be that he had already "disappeared" and thus was unable to be noticed. The red wire the rest of the team was carrying dissappeared, perhaps indicating that he was gone for an unditermined amount of time (the team gave up on finding him, and thus went back through the portal.
The darker room might indicate the precense of imperfections with the backrooms design (imperfect calcuclations), as the hallway leading to its enterence shrinks in height. The room differs due to having different wallpaper, no lights as well as distorted objects (large and small wheelbarrow).
When the individual is in the "theater" area, automated subtitles show "Applause".
The individual must have survived getting lost, because the last schematic shows the room he was in as a place for the portal to open up, the "threshold" linking "Standard" with the "complex" (hence the found footage). As he arrives to the door he is heard with a mix of laughing and crying (sign of relief), this together with an alarm activating when he spoke indicates this is a part of protocol to retrieve lost personel.
I don’t know about this being a retrieval protocol, but the room has ends in matches the surveillance room shown in the .tar archive photos video
Someone had to get the footage, so someone either found him dead or alive with the footage
My theory for the last part when the alarm came on is:
They knew about the monster in the last found footage video, hence the Async facility setup an alarm and defense system in case of that monster getting through. And in my opinion... the dude died due to the defense system. Everything else you mentioned tho. I totally agree with
@@Milky_Nguyen Either that or soldiers escorted him to safety
ur a genius
The muffled voices of the people, the static and the mysterious hum of the lights, damn everything is spot on! Nice work Kane!
@🌈 I like RickRoII 🤣 I know its a rickroll
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I kinda wish there were subtitles
im shit at making Videos but i do nice audiologs
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no mixtape selling strategies included :(
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I have a theory for the room with the tree wallpaper and the wheelbarrows. It may not be a good one. If this whole place was created by something that doesn't quite understand human architecture, could it be whatever "it" is trying to simulate the outdoors? You have a house with "trees" surrounding it( the wallpaper), and fairly normal items you might find in someone's garden, an axe and wheelbarrows. One of the windows in the house was even made of glass. Could be entire wrong but that's how I seen it.
I think you're pretty much right. The idea of the Backrooms seems to be a real-life version of copying and pasting models and textures from reality. It's like an A.I. algorithm trying to replicate aspects of our world in this strange other plane of reality.
Maze horror has always relied on fear induced by experiencing something close to the uncanny valley. I think the reason something uncanny is frightening is that it presents that a thing is trying to deceive us to let our guard down. The implication of course is horrifying. To put so much effort in deceiving us to make us vulnerable implies that the effort in preying on us must be at least equal to this effort in deceiving us, to make up for it. An infinite uncanny maze, so infinite horrors.
I think the creepiest part is how uncommon these places are. Similar to the outside area from pitfalls, it's just down a hall while the majority of the place is typical yellow wallpaper backrooms. Like it's a hidden area for experimenting with things you don't quite understand and don't want anyone to see yet.
Also, pay close attention to the audio as he points his camera at the house. Something's defiently breathing in there.
My take is that the room was no clipped from a section of the complex that takes place in the future. In Presentation, async announces that they want to build residential and commercial districts. It could be that they went far into their developments before things go horribly wrong. I could be wrong but we'll definitely get more answers to this mystery.
Everything seemed so fine for this dude till the voices got him off the path and then the fact that he basically glitched away from the path and his group just made me full of fear. The simple fact that simply trailing off can get you lost so easily and maybe forever trapped brings back the fear that the backrooms had back when it first was made.
It was really fucking stupid of him to panic and start looking for them ngl. All the time I was just screaming in my head for him to go back the way he came from. Even if he couldn't find the exit because the halls were randomized or something he could have at least tried.
@@MCTogs the fact he followed suspicious voices was something he shouldn’t do at all. Like that is horror movie survival 101, don’t follow disembodied voices that seem close.
@@thephantomx6467 I mean but when you got a whole team of prepared people behind, it doesn't seem too risky at first glance too take a peek
Lol backrooms-ception
The really scary thing is there's something very similar to this in the Missing 411 phenomenon (which is 100% really happening). People in those cases have a tendency to disappear when they're last in a group or whenever there's a point of separation. Sometimes they're found alive with memory loss, but most of the time they're either found deceased or never found at all.
I wasn’t into the whole backrooms lore, I’m fact I didn’t really even know it existed. But man, these are addicting. The talent.. While I’ve since looking into it, this stands on its own as pure horror entertainment, for people who don’t even know what backrooms are. Everything about it done to a degree where it feels so eerie and creepy and this visceral anxiety. It’s great.
Pretty much the same thing as slender man from /x/ on 4chan. Backrooms had lore like 10 years ago at least. 4chan has been controlling internet culture for the last decade it’s amazing. Creepypastas becoming a series of videos is so cool because you can visualize it without just reading about it. I’m about 10 years older than this kid (if the whole “SIXTEEN YEAR OLD DID THIS”) thing isn’t fake. I’m assuming they have a team of very skilled people working on this. A ton of people give credit to one kid who is supposedly young. Highly doubtful, but impressive regardless
maybe can i ask which level is at 4:10 and 5:10?
This isnt rlly what the backrooms are tho he has his own version thats diffrent from the official one
Yeah the ability this series has for inducing terror and dread is insane. So well done.
@Kai. how about 5:10
I gotta say, The sound of fear in his voice as soon as the other people dissapear and he screams out for them is so real. The shaking of the camera and when he finds the room with the pc and servers in it. his breath is shaking (in my assumption) cause he cant believe he made it out. But when the Alarm goes off he starts to realize that he is not yet save at all. All in all better than any Horror movie made from Hollywood
Anyone wondering I just came back from reunion and I think this is the guy that they find, you can hear him say Marvin after he gets teleported and that’s why they recognize eachother, and I think Marvin took his place as camera man just a theory.
Edit: I can’t believe how much attention this got most likes on a post I’ve ever had, thanks everyone.
Yes, yes yes! I'm convinced it's Peter too!!!
@thetruehacker agreed! poor guy :(
Same
A film theory
@hacker I want go what is it
I can't imagine how hopeless and terrifying that would feel. To be casually walking and chatting with work buddies one moment, to suddenly alone in a room that seems to have changed itself around. Suddenly, you're lost, questioning your sanity, and unsure if you'll ever see someone familiar again...
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I actually just realized something. This main character is the lucky one. His coworkers and the team lead are the ones who no-clipped somewhere else. He remained in the same place. I just don't know what's gonna happen to him now that he discovered the secret lab.
Basically losing your mom in the mall when you're 6
3:54 This area must be a conference room of sorts
@@leociresi4292 its actually the observation room constructed by them in later videos, meaning he just got shoved a bit farther into the future and was able to get back to his fellow scientists, hence why they were able to recover the video footage (from a lore standpoint)
No jump scares, just anticipation of the worst. Spooky and I love it.
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That’s on y’all’s obsession with that kind of stuff. I never expected anything like that and got some delicious content regardless. Maybe even more so due to not having any idea at all of what to expect
@@CoercedJab not the obsession but what is always expected on most horror films like these even if you dont expect them.
@@CoercedJab stop tryna act different. "y'all". stfu lmao. Not even mad its just cringe as fuck when you think everybody is different to you.
It's brilliant
Backrooms is going to reach a whole new level of attention soon.... this is just the beginning!
Amazing work!
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nice to see you here, btw fix ur upload schedule cuz i've been waiting for 7 months lol
yoooooo i haven't seen your channel in years
This is the series I would want to watch
Imagine if the backrooms is a real thing
That guy nailed the VHS era infographic video vibes
PLEASE NEVER STOP MAKING THESE
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Kane pixels : NEVER
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Ayo
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Really excellent blending of real and CG, and loving the suspense of each of these videos.
Im convinced its not cg bro..
Really incredible
A surprise Mr Z is here but a welcome one
i know the suspense is unbearable
I never thought that you would appear here but hello Mr. Z!
The fact that this is animated completely blows my mind
You are a true artist
This is _ANIMATED???_ Well damn, that's even more impressive!
Honestly if the hazmat team didn't use the same walk animation and holding something in the same hand in the same pose I wouldn't have guessed it was animation
It's not animated, not all of it. You can kinda see author isn't that skilled at animating creatures from Found Footage.
This is either an insanely good mocape, or (most probably) a ton of green screens, VFX effects, actual prop building, and maybe a VR headset to capture main camera's motion. So it's like adding real humans into 3d rendered scene, and this requires solid skill.
@@koyooko5160 i think he uses mixer and blender. it's rlly hard to make something realitsic, yet alone scary, he did an amazing job for just 16. imagine what he could do in 5 years?! im excited for his new stuff in the future!
@@lostgarbage4055 Thanks. Finally someone with a brain
This truely depicts what being lost feels like, All you want is to backtrack and find something familiar but end up stumbling upon more unfamiliar areas getting deeper and deeper and even more lost than before.
just like life
So they were concerned bc the layout had changed, not all the audio communication is easy to understand which is a nice touch, and then he clips into a new instance, leaving him alone, finds glitched segmented portions of generation, and then one of the facility observation installations... So fascinating and immersive, keep up the great work Kane and everyone at Kane Pixels, by far this is my most obsessive fascination with horror and liminal spaces. In an era where horror has severely gone downhill, this completely revolutionizes and revamps the entire genre, amazing job and can't wait to see what's next!
Definitely one of the more creative Implementations of the backrooms, in my opinion
"Not all the audio communication"? I couldn't make out a single word of anything anyone said...
@@boxcarz Wait, there’s actual words being said? I thought they were just humming with a deep voice (/s)
I completely agree with you about horror. This new Backrooms is soo good and cant get enough. It seems like unlimited possibilities on what to create in this place. I'm sure whatever happens next we should be in good hands with Kane Pixels, absolutely killing it. 👍
@@reyariass yeah they are talking
Holy shit Kane you're a VFX god, you're getting so much better at this, it looks too real, keep it up you're brilliant!!!!!!
Edit: For those asking, he uses Blender for the CGI
Note : he's 16 and he's able to do all this
The reason it looks to real is because it IS real! Edit this was a joke
You're alive!
@Hotrod nahhhh dw i didnt know it was real the first time either
@@hudberwafdog ohh do you know which parts exactly? i rlly cant tell the difference cos it's so well made
The sounding of the immense fear and sudden feeling of hopelessness is so strong, very well acting. The man quickly turned into a more vulnerable and weak state which makes this feel so much more surreal!
Yeah the voice acting is incredible, it’s really nice to see a fully voice acted short on TH-cam
I don't know if there are other comments about this but I was putting together a timeline of all the videos and 1990 was not a leap year so the date that this supposedly happened is not an actual date in existence. the last day of February 1990 was February 28th. I'm guessing that this may have been affected by the supposed time travels happening in the backrooms
This feels like it's straying more and more from the actual Backrooms lore and I think it's way better for it. I feel the tension and suspense in these videos, I feel way more terrified by the concept of this place, than I do by the actual lore of the backrooms, maybe part of it is because of how gamified it all sounds, where everything is categorized by levels, with highly specific and detailed ways to go into other levels, with generic loot and things like that. While most of backrooms content is like "oh yeah be sure to pack a few bottles of Almond Water before going into this level", this series makes it all look way more alien, something eldritch and unknown, instead of just some glitchy game.
Agreed. I tried getting into the backrooms lore after finding this channel, but the fan content seems to have destroyed the original concept.
Couldn't agree more. I was so disappointed to learn about corny factions and levels. The mystery of the backrooms is absolutely the best part.
Couldn't agree more with you. This is going in the best direction right now.
Lore does tend to ruin the horror of something scary for being unknown, so straying from it would be the best thing for it.
I personally think that kinda ruins it. The more you try to explain somthing the less scary it becomes. Because that implies that it can be understood and in fact people do understand them. It also implies that people have been through the whole thing and mapped it out. It ruins the mystery and mystique of them and makes them FAR less creepy imo.
Edit: I also hate how its explained as a glitchy game with "levels". other than how you get there; I think that fits pretty well. I feel like it shouldn't be explained at all and just left as this mysterious, senseless space just outside of reality.
I *LOVE* how the backrooms "separated" the person from the rest of the group! How even with a team of people who know exactly what they're getting into (literally), they can still be fooled into being trapped! Very cool
Yes it was very fun and awesome that he got lost from the group. I smiled warmly at his misery! I hope he never gets back home :) lol just kidding
I can feel the fear and sudden panic when he realizes he's been seperated from the group, so much it legit makes me get huge anxiety. Outstanding work.
It gave me anxiety lol.
2:55
IT MAKES ME WANT TO CRY, LIKE UR EXPLORING THE BACKROOMS WITH UR BROS THEN YOU TURN ALWAY THEN REALIZE UR ALONE
you'd think people trained to explore the backrooms would have learned to stay put when they get lost, but he immediately begins to wander as much as possible...
also amazing scenery and freaky atmosphere, really good
OR just head back to the entrance. That’s what I would do
Could be maybe if you stay in one spot for too long the threat levels increase. My guess is there needs to be constant movement otherwise the creatures could find you/detect you easier but that’s just a guess.
4:04 i think That this is 💩
I like how he's not really following the backrooms lore, but creating his own.
what??? you like that hes single handedly overwriting a community driven project?
@@philyjfry yes.
@@jamimison8845 gigachad response
@@philyjfry Yes, because the community driven project sucked.
@@philyjfry yes
I’ve never felt this anxious. His voice when the others disappeared sounds so terrified. Better acting than even some Hollywood movies
Yes
The production quality is 10/10. Literally a series to rival anything else currently on TH-cam
That’s true, and if this becomes a full film, then holy shit, we got a classic
ligma
@@nickharrison1477 nuts
Life Beyond from Melodysheep is still ranked 1 but,yeah its fcking insane!
Idk Marble Hornets is good.
This series is probably the best series on TH-cam I can't get enough of it
This is simply the best series of the Backrooms ever made. This kid has SERIOUS potential and had me on the edge waiting for something.
Fr he should get contracted by Hollywood or sum
Can’t believe my man is only 16
Edging
@Emanuelgamer 1313 skill
I can’t believe how far Kane Pixels has come as an artist. From his AOT stuff to backrooms
Becouse his found footage video blew up
imo his AoT stuff was way more special. this feels like a HS film project
I’m not even trying to be dramatic but I’ve literally never been more invested in something more in my entire life. This is amazing!
Yes. Keep it coming!
With the latest video the crowded room of people now makes sense, it’s the backrooms merging with reality just like the man in the house
There’s no way this is cgi. It looks like an actual studio. Flawless animation!
I'm still at disbelief that a 16 year old made this, he has a massive potential, I'm legit speechless
@@YurieSnowie *16* but yeah I agree with you.
If anything, he should make a movie outta this.
@Señor Why Me hope this ain't your attempt to downplay what he's done with this.
@Señor Why Me what
@Señor Why Me actually yes, downplaying is exactly what you’re doing lol. If it’s so easy to make something this good ld love to see you make something better
Amazed your stuff is animated in Blender - honestly looks fully live action, with sets and everything.
I can't stand horror, but the sheer /mystery/ to this liminal labyrinth and all the... something that seems to be lurking within it has me hooked. Apparently there's deeper context to this from earlier internet stuff, too? Amazing...! Immensely invested in this series of yours, and eagerly awaiting for whatever comes next...!
Yes and if you're really interested in fan-fiction creepy stories you better check SCP Foundation and its lore
Blender is super powerful in the right hands.
This guy's hands are definitely the right ones.
i be getting scared as hell but these keep attracting me
@@unlucky-777 scp is like as far as something can get from mystery or the unknown though
it's easy to say when you find a video with no jumpscares
I'm assuming he was lured by something into one of those null zones that was mentioned in a previous video, which is some sort of unstable zone in the backrooms between dimensions. I wonder if the alarms went off because his suit had the fungus on it, so the room was contaminated and was alerting any workers inside that they had to evacuate. Super interesting stuff, having loads of fun theory-crafting :) Keep it up!
Wait when was a fungus mentioned
@@treyebillups8602 missing persons
@@treyebillups8602 There is a fungus a team find at the end of the missing persons video around a dead body
Also weird side note: I noticed that it says Feb 29th 1990, but Feb 1990 only had 28 days. Could be intentional for some reason, could also be a minor mistake
@@oakzutv it's probably a mistake, we can assume it's march 1st
So cool how this is the same guy at the end of Presentation and Reunion (the reunion being between him and Marvin who also appears in this video)
Imagine what this guy could do with a whole film studio, amazing work.
backrooms the film
I can't get enough of your videos (and I think I speak for a lot of people).
When will the lore end
@@ty77770 n e v e r
you think
I’m not a lot of people I’m just fat.
Think we should get this guy (amazing he is still kid)
A deal for a shortfilm?
He's only 16 years old, yet he's already nailing all of the visual effects in his videos. Well done.
Really???
@@yimnerr Yeah
Secs
He better get a reward for this stuff, if anyone on TH-cam deserves best creator of the year, it’s him. Idk if thats a real award or not but still, he needs to be praised highly
@Colson Hartness check his about page
One of the reasons I love this series is that every time I watch it, I notice something new. Has anybody noticed that at 4 minutes in, footsteps are mixed in with all that black crud on the ground? I just noticed that, and it's at least my 10th time watching this particular episode.
This is probably the most terrifying video of this whole series in my opinion.
The worker who seemingly time traveled, knew how easy it was to get lost. It’s absolutely chilling when you hear the fear in his voice after he realizes he might be stuck there forever.
Makes me ask a question... what's more terrifying? Knowing the horrors of something or not knowing anything about it at all?
@@sickboy9902 I think probably not knowing what's is to come is more terrifying. Atleast you know how, where, and what is following you, it would aslo give a huge advantage of knowledge on how to survive in and possibly escape the backrooms.
@@tibbles53 in hindsight it's more terrifying to not know what's to come, but in the present time knowing somethings after you is always scarier than not knowing
@@thiccboisauce172 I would say up until the point you know your not alone it's better to not know, but after that I would definitely want the advantage of knowing.
@@sickboy9902 the man who gets lost, he knew that the backrooms was full of the unknown, to put it bluntly. He knew that there was no escaping once you’re lost, but also didn’t know what he would come across. To summarize it, he knew his death was coming, just not how.
As a professional audio engineer, I wanted to praise your audio and sound design work. And I know I'm not the only one, as should be the case with this stuff, but this content is beyond TH-cam. This is film level both in visual, audio and general theme. I would love to see you exploring imersive audio (Dolby Atmos, Binaural HRTF etc.) and see if you could incorporate it into a camcorder style video. It would be a challenge don't get me wrong, but maybe there's some unique ways to add some of those elements in without disrupting the main feel/concepts. Absolutely stellar work and some of the best on the platform at the moment. A real legend! :D
Man that would sound great with my surround system, but vhs did have stereo or mono audio, so that would make no sense.
@@yesyesyesyes4923 Of course yeah 😀
Surround sound wouldn't make that much sense because this is an analog horror
Dude completely agree. As someone who has been producing music for 10 years, the quality of audio work in itself is class
i agree!! i’m a film sound design major and in awe of everything going on here!!! amazing job:))
Kane has really got the back rooms down here.
I always hated the whole thing the internet did where they filled it with lore and all these different levels and clearly defined creatures..completely destroyed the back room concept.
But here we have it, the mystery the isolation, the quiet, nothing is certain at all.
You’ve got the architecture, clearly constructed by something that doesn’t understand human buildings, the lack of sound.
Ikr and the internet got even more ridiculous with each level having bases and civilizations. The whole point of the back rooms is that your isolated in a strange, oddly nostalgic place, not some adventure with other people... This vid actually makes sense because the only travel is a government expedition and these vids record all the unsettling anomalies happening during it.
I personally like the whole different levels idea, adds a new depth for lore and creativity but I agree none of them have the same level of unease and unique 'vibe' as Level 0 or the 'Backrooms'
I like the idea of levels but the predefined structures and recorded entities are dumb.
And don't even get me started on the civilisation part
Keeping the concept ominous and foreboding is a minimalistic but clever way to invoke the sense of uneasiness. Everything is undefined, disconnected from reality, but vaguely familiar, as if these places exist in a distant memory or long forgotten dreamscape.
@@EskimoCanadian44 exactly, if you define the backrooms you ruin the backrooms
Damn, this guy went mad…. I thought those security alarms were legit. But now after reunion (new video), I believe this guy descends into madness.
he was probably banished back into backrooms by async and Ivan Beck after that call, so async didn't have to explain what happened to him and how did he disappeared for 2 months. Also the sealed off entry to pitfalls (from Report video) was already open in the beginning of Reunion video, which kind of confirms this.
They were legit because of clip from "Presentation". Peter (cameraman) probably got sent back to The Complex because Async already faked his d34th (My comment probably would not be deleted, this isn't TikTok or something but I want to be sure my comment still will be here, that's why I censored it).
Bro that guy in reunion is different guy if you listen closely in one of the parts you can hear the guy in reunion says: yes its me steve
edit: and if that guy was dumped in the backrooms why would async (or ivan beck) would allow the reunions exploration
@@45f3f34f Yeah I think you are right because the guy in "reunions" is wearing something completely different then the cameraman for this video who shows back up in "presentation". My theory is that the guy in "reunions" is some other employee who was put back in the backrooms and that he has been affected in some way by the mold entity there because in "reunions" he isn't wearing a hazard suit and looks as if he is covered in mold.
@@MustafaAhmed-cf7bb maybe he just took off the suit?? In one of the community posts it shows drawings on a hazmat suit
I think i understand now. The room he finds at the end is the lab room that A-SYNC was making in the video labeled (motion detected).
So he ends up finding his way back to the threshold, but at a later time. His disappearance might be why they decided to film the main rooms near the threshold. Maybe next time we'll get to see more of that abstract house wall he found ( he seem real interested).
Indeed, agreed. As others have noted too: 02/29/1990 was not a real date in time, as it was not a leap year
@@leotide1990 👀 makes me think of multiverse theory or a parallel universe. So many unknowns, so many ways this could go.
nah. dudes in info vid had mold on them, motion detected didnt.
This actually aged well
@@JC-mi7wn indeed
I genuinely can't tell if the people in the backrooms are cg or real people somehow edited into the space... it's so fuckin well done. I remember seein the old man in one of your attack on titan cg animations and that looked amazin but ya could still tell it was cg... just look how far ya've come. This is superb! Seriously, well done on this!
The old man in the attack on titan video is not cg, its just composited in. The people here are CG, it looks like he's using mocap data for the animation as it is quite realistic movement . Although it could be hand animated I'm not sure. The hardest thing to fake in cg is the human face which is why you never see the faces of the suit people.
Ya, the people look super good, but the walking animation and some similarities in each model suggest CG.
Sometimes I think the whole place is real because of how good it is
I recall him saying everything in these vids are CG
Can you guys give me an breif description on what is this backroom thing?
I love this because even being in a fully cgi environment the camera movement LOOKS real. I hate CGI videos that have that horrid over done camera shaking and zooming. This looks like it was filmed by a real person.
He might have used motion tracking for that
Maybe it was
He uses both CGI and real things and blends them together
This is cgi??? That‘s so impressive. 🤯
i do vfx myself and this is very good its confusing how he made it im trying to figure it out. the camera motion is what sells the effects so well. Oh and of course the VHS style overlay takes away detail from the environment so its easier to sell. awesome shit !
I like that coming back after FF3 you can actually figure out why there's noises at 2:44 , the fabric of reality is weak enough in that area to allow for some random occupied building to be heard by tench, just like how Ravi spoke to the father he "met" in the alternate version of his house.
Regardless of the creator’s age or how good the VFX are, this is simply an example of excellent visual story telling. Thank you for doing the work to make this happen Kane.
@ti13💖 what
Imagine if he was 8
Yup we r the same age yet he has grinded so far and I'm still here eating my food💀
@@Coolepikgamer imagine if he was 7
@@Mr_Case_Time Imagine if he was 4
I love the fact that the backrooms is finally getting the attention it deserves. Truly some of the weirdest/creepiest sub-genre of horror out there.
Yeah but i hate the fact that it got overdone by adding "levels". The backrooms comunity even made the level here displayed (level 0) completely harmless and obsolete. According to them it is now threatless and without any monster.
Just like any creepypasta it got oversaturated with stuff, but these cgi animations are a breath of fresh air, encapsulating what the backrooms are actually like
@@JoshTRC yeah too much autism, same with SCP, early SCP was great
@@JoshTRC i completely agree. That's what the Backrooms should be like, not all this absurd "999999999 level" stuff
@@AnicePerson-en5gs yeah
It used to be. I think it went a bit off the rails though. Hopefully this can ground it again.
Love how he doesn't need jumpscares to make things tense, scary, or unnerving. Kane is really talented
He’s only 16:o
@@rougepenguin4672 WHAAAT? FR?
@@zloy617 exactly Kane is production genius
@@rougepenguin4672 Really?
Woah it's very inspiring me-
@@ZaFah695 hope this gets more likes lmao
This channel has undoubtedly the best Backrooms video content on the internet. It honestly looks and feels so real.
He’s not the only creator doing it, I thought it was just him ?
@@RealBadGaming52 same here.
This man single handedly brought the backrooms to life.
I think the environments you've created are far more terrifying and fitting of the Backrooms than most of the games I've seen on Steam about it. Usually, it's a really boring basic maze. No clipping environments or weird anomalies, just a simple maze of yellow walls and some monsters.
It's a shame too, since the backrooms is ripe for like a big RPG or something, problem is the scale and getting developers for the project
@@dontkickmychick6076 scale isn’t really a problem. Minecraft world is a good example
edit: if we’re not talking about the levels, but i prefer the original concept of only one level
@@heatriangle only one level? but a bland, boring thing.
@@belkYT yeah, that’s not very suitable for the game. But if we talk about it in the context of real life, then the concept from the original creepypasta seems to me the most frightening
@@heatriangleits just so boring to think of
How are you making stuff that looks this good this fast? When the video started I was thinking "oh okay it's going to be 8 minutes of company instructional material, mostly text and diagrams, okay." But then no, of course somehow there's another 5 minutes of full 3D photorealistic CG Backrooms exploration in there. This is nuts, I've never seen something like this on TH-cam, certainly not coming out at this blistering rate. Just remember to take breaks if you need.
This man is my age yet he's pumping out LITERAL MASTERPIECES in less than weeks, I can't even animate on dc2, yet he's making a backrooms horror series 300 times better than massive budget horror movies. Amazing.
Seriously, is this rendered in Unreal Engine 5?
As that is one of the few ways I think this could be possible this quickly
I think one thing that really sells the realistic look is the VHS look it has.
@@corporalcardiolog9922 300 times better than big budget horror movies? It’s a good vid but not that good most of the models aren’t that polished and look kinda bad
@TH-cam Account Yeah, I wish I could be like him.
Even Hollywood is not qualified enough to hire this guy right now. Truly outstanding work!
8 freaking minutes in two weeks, and it’s movie studio quality.
One word-
HOW?! Don’t you have, like, high school or something?! This is absolutely AMAZING, especially given your age AND the time period. Absolutely blown away, as always.
he dropped out
@@jkeebla Even still.. with what we're seeing now... he has massive amount of potential.
He could create some sort of epic horror movie with this sort of talent.
@@SZecuto yeah seriously, he might not even need to do highschool with the skills he has
@@SZecuto true, that would be amazing in the theatre. the psychological horror aspect of this series is top-notch and mind blowing dude!!
we did have quarantine and a few lockdowns over the past two years. i'd bet at-home schooling also helped cut down considerable amounts of time when he probably never left his work station.
Now this is impressive! I feel like this could well be the next big indie horror series on TH-cam that others will try and emulate, like Local58 and GHE, provided they keep pumping out videos of such high quality. I love the development and the attention to the small and often overlooked details, like how they actually got the footage in the first place. Fantastic work, I’m excited to see how it develops!
What is GHE?
@@gore77 Gemini home entertainment
How did they discover this tape? I didn't catch it.
It must take a while to set up all of the locations and props in a 3D program like this.
Heh. There is a backrooms game on roblox that basically have the backrooms levels you know
This is quickly becoming the most terrifying thing I've ever uncomfortably watched. Excellent work as awlays!!!
You may want to fix the spelling of “always” before someone comes along and rudely does it
So I watched found footage 3 and I have a little theory. Before he got separated he heard a crowd of people 2:53 and right before he gets separated he says “hey!”.. in FF3 we know that the guy who got trapped was able to talk to someone from the other side of reality or whatever, the real world, what if the same thing happened here and the crowd couldn’t hear him because well, its a crowd. Another thing to kindaaa back this up is at 41:46 in found footage 3 the guy in the other side says “wtf” and we hear this sound and screaming which could maybe be correlated to the glitch the guy in this video experienced just less intense? Also in FF2 when the green thing happens near the end of the video it could also be that i don’t really know. One more thing, we know that in first contact someone says “there’s an obstruction”, in faultline we know that first contact causes a hugeeee earthquake, fires, power outages etc, and in missing persons report there’s a scene that says “if anything blame him” to me it seems like there is a “higher power” that is intruding in project KV31?? Maybe the bacteria was the obstruction (probably) and since they created a doorway to the back rooms it’s causing all of this to happen?? Idk but that’s what I was thinking about.. I’m currently rewatching the entire playlist and later tonight I’m gonna make a list of all of them in order (ik there are playlist out there but I want my own “source” and there are new vids out that aren’t in those)
Edit: also I remember in pitfalls some text appears in the screen which adds to my “higher power” theory. I don’t remember all of it off the top of my head hence why I’m rewatching this series l.
This video is scary as hell, and the atmosphere is crazy, yet there’s absolutely no jump scares. Well done Kane.
800 likes and I’m the first reply?
This is entry level, no monsters here
@@Brownwell_Corp I'm a 900 like!
yes
It's existential fear. It's rooted in the nightmares we forget. This is essentially an emerging genre that feeds on the uncanny valley that our subconscious paints when influenced by reality but not inhibited by it.
After watching a few of the copycat videos I came to realize they are all animated environments. When I first saw this video, I was asking myself "where did he find such a large empty building / set to film this in". I'm embarrassed. Very well made.
Graças ao seu comentário posso acreditar que tudo é computadorizado kkk achei que era real
I'm absolutely impressed
Aye man foreal!!
What did you say? They’re in the backroom, lever 0!
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My personal theory on how this version of the back rooms operates is: The scientists creating the back rooms knew that if they created space from nothing, it would be a completely random jumble of random materials. To avoid this, and to make the rooms more livable, they gave their “gateway machine” rooms to copy (this is supported by some of the images taken outside the backrooms as they seem very reminiscent of the rooms that we have seen inside the backrooms) . As we all know, this template idea sort of worked. With hallways seemingly becoming the dominant form of the backrooms. As seen by the very orderly hallways near the “gate” compared the the random hallways, the farther away one goes from the gate the more random and warped the rooms become. Here’s what the scientists truly forgot though. Their template rooms they gave their machine to reproduce had bacteria in them.
This deserves more attention
wait, but if the machine was given pictures as the templates, where did the bacteria come from?
@@nulu4668 i think he means physical pictures
No, don’t.
The more you explain it, the less spooky it becomes, like “Cube” or “Slender Man” you don’t understand it and that creates the fear, and, ironically by explaining it, just like the two I mentioned, it becomes less spooky. Don’t try to explain it, the fear of the unknown is a lot better than the fear of a couple scientists making an oopsie.
I always interpreted it as rather than the scientists creating the backrooms. They instead created a portal to them. Thus joing them to our world in a very physical sense. In their official report they imply they created the space as to not worry the government bigwigs.
These scenes remind me of Kubrick's 2001. Exceptional work, creativity.
You are really bringing back what makes the backrooms terrifying. No silly colonies and survivor based governments, goofy entities, etc.
Just unknown terror and at least one genuinely creepy monster. I hope you keep this mystery vibe going. Excellent work my man!
Tbh, the colonies and stuff aren't what ruins the backrooms, it's more of the levels that don't keep that "liminal spaces" feel and stuff like that. Level 11 is one of my least favorites for that reason.
@@real4kGaming I don’t mind the levels just as long as they are rooms that have that familiar feeling
@@real4kGaming I'm personally of the camp that having a group of humans together is fine, but once they become too powerful like MEG and can just casually fend off the spooky ripoff SCPs, what is there to fear? The Backrooms shouldn't even have a place you recognize as a safe spot. EVERYTHING is liminal. Halls that lead from and to more halls, with no landmarks to let anybody catch their bearings. Level 11 is a culprit of breaking that rule, too.
@@Glory2Snowstar M.E.G is not too powerful it's just the largest, they are still limited by the resources inside the backrooms, also backrooms is liminal space, but it's not apart of the liminal spaces, it has it's own universe and lore, if you want to be alone then go back to liminal spaces.
people really need to understand that the backrooms is not something you project your liminal spaces lore on, it's a separate thing to liminal spaces.
I know right it’s so annoying
it all started with a simple picture and now it literally has its own lore.... love how far the backrooms has come
This is everytime I go to the mall with my wife.
The lore is usually garbage and no one likes it so I’m really glad this kid has made his own lore that’s super interesting
the lore is fucking shit lmao
Have*
It follows the same trajectory as the SCP universe in a way. Started with a random post on 4chan, evolved into an entire fictional universe
I really love that this version of The Backrooms was a government program that tried to solve a housing/storage crisis and accidentally caused...this. It's a very grounded idea that skates in to science fiction rather seamlessly.
Wasn’t it the same theory in the true backroom ?
@@yuthecmdh4xx0rakanohomo83 what theory?
it’s literally stranger things but ok
Hold on, where did you got that from? Did he posted a backstory somewhere?
No, paranormal hyperdimensional research
5:31 this right here is perfection. I like how fake it looks and feels, pretty much like a bunch of .jpeg pictures clumped together mixed with somewhat realistic CGI.
When the camera pans over to the left is a bunch of .jpeg weird looking ass objects like the wheelbarrow and an axe, then the .jpeg house further ahead to the left, just stamped on a wall... there's just something amusing and odd about fake looking objects like that just lying around. That can only enhance the overall 90s "strangely/oddly real" feeling of it. I wouldn't dare to further elaborate such a particular feeling.
I somewhat feel like this whole "fakey" feel of it is kind of missing in Kane's newer videos as they're getting more realistic - that even actual actors are being introduced more and more - of course I don't really mind it, I still find the newer videos amazing, though I must say they're missing this very specific "fakey .jpeg feel" should I call it.
THIS is what the back rooms were always supposed to be. Not constructed into levels or creatures of what we know are capable of. this video is filled with the unknown and that is true horror
I wouldn’t mind creatures or levels,Kane pixels can definitely make it work and look cool asf
I'd much rather have it organized organically and remain cryptic, than it read like a videogame walkthrough on gamefaqs.
At the finish, it showed the rough sketch blueprints of the circuitry room and the eerie beeps the servers made leaves the viewer with a detached type of ending, like, what happened to the guy then? Did he find his way back? Did the other two finally meet up with him? You’re literally left in suspense
The tension of waiting for jump scares is almost worse than the jump scares themselves would have been. Because then at least there'd be a release.
I don't mind there being different entities or scenarios with each Back Room clip because it adds to the mystery of the lore. The feeling of being alone in the unknown is scary, but the feeling of not being alone in the unknown can be scarier sometimes.
The camera movements and the environment feels so believable it could pass for reality.
Keep up the great work man.
I still dont know if its all CGI or not, cus i legit cant see the difference...
It almost feels like he holds a real camera mold with a tracker in it, then fumbles around with it and uploads it as the camera movement
@@Jr837_ I *think* it's set footage that transitions into completely CG at points. The VHS-aesthetic absolutely sells it.
@@c0dejj853 I've been trying to figure out how he does it since the "Found Footage" video. At first I thought it was the combination of miniatures, real elements and CGI and now I think a lot of it is real and enhanced with CGI. Perhaps he's in a real, empty office complex and used green/blue screen walls and dividers, plus recorded the tracking points to be able to build it, enhance and add to it using 3D FX software. Also, the visual degradation of the video could make CGI a lot easier to hide. So interesting.
@@joellouisfire i would say he is recording the movement on his phone and simulating walking around and then he tracks the environment from the video he took and take the camera movement into the 3d space.
The perfect balance between the realism and CGI is what makes this covertly and utterly terrifying. Kane is literally a legend how he brings the Backrooms to life
"They took my life from me Marv, everyone thinks I'm f***ing dead. My wife and children think I'm dead."
Peter no 😭 that video threw me for a loop
I can't believe how realistic this is. I'm telling you, Kane Pixels has such a bright future!
I agree
This is his future. We are witnessing it
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I think the scariest part about all this is how Kane managed to get 5 high quality videos out in the span of a month, nice work!
Probably has a very beefy computer, made these in advance OR has a team of people helping him make these
@@reyariass or actual backrooms
BTFO of Hollywood and any million dollar film industry
@@reyariass Beefy computer, he makes these by himself.
@@iappearateveryfunction Yeah I thought so, no way my pc could render these within a month. (I know I should probably upgrade)
Also makes sense, once he has the models created, it’s just a matter of reusing them and the animations where he needs them.
Everything about this series is absolutely amazing. I feel so invested and everything feels so real, from the exploration, the environments, and the mans nervous breathing feels scarily real after he gets separated from the group and is just wandering wandering around. It is almost like you are the man themselves, feeling scared and hopeless while exploring all alone now. I can't wait to see how it all continues. That fact that you are 16 from what I have seen throughout comments is mind blowing, and you should definitely take any breaks if needed.
Seconded on the taking breaks point. I don't think I'd have the work ethic for personal projects of this scale, quality control, and pace in my entire life. While it's incredibly admirable, there are many accounts of overambitious projects taking a bit too much from the creators. I'd hate to see that happen here.
I like how "The Backrooms" is an in-universe term the company uses for the experiment. It's a nice way of including the name without making it seem out of place. Good job as always Kane :)
This is better than high budget movie quality, it feels genuine, real, which is a feeling a lot of movies can’t generate regardless of their budget. Truly amazing!
the two are incomparable tho, one is filmed on multimillion dollar cameras in multimillion dollar sets full of entire landscapes of green shapes to make it as clear and clean as possible and the other is filmed likely entirely from an untextured model in a blender scene and then blurred to hell in post to ironically make it seem more real because it lacks polish
Blair witch was not a high end film, it cost them $20k to film, $200k to produce but I suppose it’s as real as it gets film wise because it’s just 3 people running around a forest with weird noises happening
@@MiLk-ie8yh my theory is blender environments with motion tracked camera
@@MiLk-ie8yh this one doesn't need to be polished tho. the vhs effect and texture tiling really fit the overall mood and scenery.
@@ibuprofen-noodles probably accurate, I’m not entirely informed on camera controls in blender so things like the main character being grabbed and the camera falling in the found footage video were likely real
And now we know this links to 'Presentation'. The room toward the end turned blue when the lights turned off, then the alarm sounded when personnel came in. Seems like Kane really has the entire story mapped out and leaves no little detail left out. Leaves me at the edge of my seat every month!
Looks like i wasnt the only one who thought of this : D
Well, don't fall off it...
Yeah
It could also explain why Marvin could trapped down the chute he fell from. Towards the end of the video he's being pulled up by his team, but the very last clip shows that it suddenly stopped and the communication coming from his team is absent. He could have possibly warped in time and it could be a hint because the other person on his team mentioned the "null" zones earlier in the vid. Even more freakier would be that if its actually Marvin that the entity is imitating if he warped back in time and gets killed by the creature anyways. Perhaps this is why it didn't chase him any further because it noticed the crevice has a hazy distortion field.
Survival Guide:
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Really interesting that the lost guy seems to find his way back to the threshold at a far later point in time, after the room in front of it has been built (which you can see is just starting construction as of March 1990 in the Motion Detected video). Have to wonder if he got displaced in time or if he was just wandering for that long.
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@@kfcmanager3199 bruh this isn't twitter, go somewhere else.
My initial thought was he was displaced in time, and then upon returning to the threshold he’s detected as an anomaly of sorts. Imagine thinking you’re safe finally free from the back rooms only to be rejected from the world you know, maybe even sent back to aimlessly wander forever
definitely time travel. I imagine he'd die of thirst during the time it took to build the room
You can hear the peter say marvin after yelling guys where did you go thats wild
This is incredible, every single camera turn is tenebrous, your Backrooms footages always give that scary anxious feeling
As someone pointed out earlier
notice how that giant monster from the Found Footage is the only time so far we've experienced any kind of chase or jumpscare. The rest of these videos simply talk about A-sync discovering and making expeditions into the Backrooms.
It creates a sense of dread that there could be something lurking here and they don't know yet. If the theory that our guy here jumped forward in time a bit is right, then those alarms in that room he entered means shit went down before and they installed security measures in there to keep that thing out.
...so it really was the exit? and not the backrooms fucking with his sanity by creating a similair facility?
@@BobbinRobbin777 yeah, likely the people made the exit but my gauss, something did escape and it was not nice
In life everything we look at we make choice/ value judgements on. Should I pick that up, should I talk to that person, should I go down that street ECT. What I think is so unsettling about the backrooms, is it is impossible to make value judgments on. Should I go right or left is a meaningless question there. It's a place that you cannot impose meaning on.
I like the time warped forward theory. I diike the idea that this is the exit he found. If it is then why is their no door to the rest of the facility in the video? I could just be blind but I don't see one.
I think of the alarm location as a forward staging base that some scientists built into the backrooms. They even camped the door to look like the walls to fool the monster but not people.
@@BobbinRobbin777 it was the exit because it wouldn't show what he's thinking on a camera
There were a number of interesting things to point out in this video. I probably missed a whole lot but what I got was this.
1. The backrooms has multiple names in this universe and the public may already know of its exsitence. The tape said that it is prohibited to use names such as the backrooms in the public. this could either mean that they are still hiding it from the public, or it could mean that the public already knows, but government officials are trying to suppress the information by making government employees not use the slang names, and instead use the term possibly only known to govenment employees (project KV31).
2. The backrooms does not seem to have a fixed layout. I already suspected this by the strange way the first videos layout was, but this video pretty much confirms that the backrooms shifts its layout because the guy in the vid tried to backtrack only to find a completely different place.
3. The area from the archive video appears to be some sort of server room. This is just something to point out for people who missed it. That room he found was in the archive video. In the video you could see the window with the same computer at it.
4. The backrooms appears to either activley pull people apart from eachother using tricks, illusions, or teleportation, or have an entity in it that does so.
5. The backrooms has a number of areas that differ from the main pattern of yellow wallpaper rooms. When I first saw the found footage video, I thought the different area Kane went to was the creators interpritation of level 1, but it seems like it may have been either a place created by Async, or some random place similar to the one seen in this video that had the wheelberrow. The strange noises coming from behind the wall with the houses painted on it may have been sounds coming from the real world but this is purley speculation.
Anyways, just wanted to organise my thoughts and figured I may as well share them with everyone else. If you have anything to add, or anything to correct me on, feel free to let me know in a comment.
I have one thing to comment on when the people entered and the guy got separated we found a place very similar to the place he entered from at the end but it wasn’t the same when he exit The back room by the computer rooms so the back rooms can apparently generate the same layout. by the way good results on everything else👍🏻
Look at the description, 02/29/1990 the 29th of February is a leap year day but on 1990. There wasn’t a leap year, so the character could’ve transported to a different universe
@K A D I E what the fuck
i thought the sound of people was a bone thief
We already knew that the backrooms weren’t linear, it’s on the wikidot but other than that yeah you’re right.