Requiem for a Muse

I discovered The Grimm Life Collective from a link shared of a lovely interview they recently did with Shelley Duvall, a well-known actress and fellow Texan. Like all of the comments say, they were very easy-going and respectful and it shows in that and other videos how big of fans they are of horror movies and those who work both in front and behind the camera. I am still going through their videos, but aside from the above-mentioned interview, my favorite so far is The Lost Boys Filming Locations, one of my favorite movies of all time, no small part of which is the beautiful California coast.

Aside from the massive popularity of The Backrooms, one of the biggest names in analog horror is The Mandela Catalogue, created by Alex Kister. Starting just a year ago, his channel is already over 750k subscribers. Like Kane Pixels, Alex is a young filmmaker, and already his work is very impressive!

While the concept of The Backrooms has been around since 2019, one of the best and more recent implementations has been from young prodigy Kane Pixels. Even though The Backrooms built off of the more general concept of liminal spaces, I always considered the former to be closer to what I personally envision of liminal spaces, namely disjointed environments, peculiar and eerie lighting, and a creeping sense of an imagined or real threat of “something” in that space with you. These are environments that seem to be taken straight from my dreams, and it mixes in the feelings of both wonder and dread, and possible ambient sounds and soft music.