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 ...

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 ...

"A space between where you've been and where you're going physically, emotionally or metaphorically." The definition of liminal spaces can be vague, but when you see one, you instantly recognize their ...

Empty swimming pools. Deserted airport terminals. Stairwells that seem to go on longer than they should. School hallways in summer. Parking garages at midnight. These are places the human brain ...

Backrooms is a horror movie that mastered the use of liminal spaces, but these four movies are even scarier examples.

You’re skimming your plans from 10 months ago and the document reads as if it were written for a different world. What’s going on? The work world, as well as the regular world, feels uncertain.

The film has brought back an earlier social media frenzy over liminal spaces, which are eerily empty and unsettlingly desolate spaces scattered throughout the world. If backrooms were real, they’d be ...