Backrooms

One sentence is all the setup we get — a strange doorway appearing in the basement of a furniture showroom — and that restraint is the whole appeal. Showrooms are already uncanny places, all fake living rooms with nobody living in them, and the promise here is that stepping through leads somewhere with the same wrongness stretched out to infinity. The tagline puts it plainly: you are not supposed to be here.

For viewers who like dread built from architecture rather than gore, and who are comfortable with a horror film that withholds its explanations. At just under two hours, expect atmosphere, wrong angles and mounting unease rather than a steady drip of scares. Those drawn to liminal-space horror and slow-tightening claustrophobia will find it right in their lane. Watch it late, alone, with the lights turned down.