A hallway. A waiting room. An airport. An abandoned building. These are physical examples of spaces that are liminal, a term derived from the Latin word "limen" to mean threshold. Basically, liminal ...

I went to the Yahiro Takahashi × Shusuke Imazeki photo exhibition "Air Pocket." The theme of this exhibition is "liminal ...

Following the release of 2025's psychological horror "Exit 8," and with A24's "Backrooms" set to bring liminal horror to the masses, many will be wondering about this emerging sub-genre and its online ...

Source: William McDonald / Pixabay With growing anticipation for the A24 film debut of Backrooms, liminal spaces have become a viral symbol of psychological horror. These spaces unsettle us because ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Liminal spaces – dreamy and nostalgic locales defined by their specific use as a transient space that you don't spend much time in ...

Long before the aesthetic went viral via a 4chan creepypasta, and Kane Parsons introduced the world to his terrifying Backrooms on YouTube, liminal spaces appeared in movies of all genres, inviting ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Chiwetel Ejiofor in "Backrooms" (A24) Some people waited years for a "Backrooms" movie. Others thought it was just another ...

Imagine you are in a place called the Poolrooms: an infinite complex of white-tiled floors and corridors, covered in a few feet of lukewarm, blue-green water. Save for you, no living things inhabit ...

Kane Parsons’ Backrooms has pushed liminal horror into the mainstream, but there are many other impressive examples out there to discover. Horror is such an evergreen and enduring storytelling genre ...