i think ive bitched about how irritating i find “the backrooms” (bc people took a creepy premise and ran it into the fucking ground by turning it into a lame scp knockoff) but the production quality of this found footage series is literally fucking incredible
(mild jumpscare at 8:27 in this video)
i wish i didnt introduce this post in such an unintentionally backhanded way lol, this is really an amazing found footage series.
like this is mostly digital and its legitimately hard to tell, and the visuals and sound design are on par with a lot of big budget horror. and the person behind it is apparently 16-17 which is just astonishing. definitely give it a watch if youre into this stuff
(also the verdict seems to be this is Very creepy so maybe needed a bigger warning than ‘mild jumpscare’)
top fucked up moments in my own writing (read the trigger tags pls):
- a curse that takes root in the hearts of those who seek revenge but aren’t satisfied by it. it starts as a small flame, but grows with each death caused in an attempt to purge it. by the end, the accursed typically drown or otherwise kill themselves to try to relieve the constant agony of burning from the inside out before it can fully consume them. they leave behind burnt-out husks that wander aimlessly, desperately seeking a purpose they’ve long forgotten. they are no longer dangerous, just horribly tragic, but they are considered bad omens due to what they represent. they are not welcome in any respectable community.
- a man whose entire existence was erased and only remembered by his own child, who was tormented by the monster that destroyed and replaced him. people who hated the man then created an intentionally fake copy of him and gave it just enough of the dead man’s memories to relate to him and form an identity based off his. they then tortured this imperfect doppelganger for decades to punish a man who no longer existed. when he escaped, he tried to reunite with the child he had memories of loving even though they had never met, but he was not their father and could not replace him even if he wanted to, and his very existence further traumatized that child who was not his but who he loved as if they were. he died in utter despair and completely alone.
- a species of terrifyingly powerful beings who can forcibly possess human bodies in order to pretend to be human if they choose. most consider this abhorrent, but their society views humanity as lesser beings and encourages them to be treated as expendable, leading to terrible situations where some of them torment humans for their own amusement or simply do not see anything wrong with violating their autonomy and using them as meat suits, and don’t even consider the trauma they inflict by doing so. they call themselves angels.
