- (director) Sound, camera. - (cameraman) Rolling.
- (director) Alright, and action.
- What is this?
- Is this like for a horror movie?
- It's giving art, it's giving camp.
- Am I supposed to know who this is? (laughs)
- (man) I'm thinking we get a wide angle, and then we're done.
- Is this The Backrooms?
- Oh, I've heard of these.
- (man) A little more, a little more.
- (cameraman) Like that? - (man) Yeah, yeah, yeah.
- (cameraman) Whoa!
(static crackles)
- Blair Witch vibes. I like it, I like it.
- Oh.
- (cameraman) Hello?
- This is where we go when we die.
- No, are they in The Backrooms? (screams)
(laughs) Oh no.
- (cameraman) What the hell?
- What the hell is correct.
- (cameraman) What the hell?
- Oh, interesting.
- Don't move stay still.
♪ (intense horror music) ♪
- Oh no, not the stick man!
- This is scary!
♪ (intense horror music) ♪
- I love this song.
- Bro, The Backrooms are so scary.
Have you ever played the Roblox game
where you're in The Backrooms?
- No.
- The music's so off-putting.
♪ (loud horror music) ♪
Ooh, it creeps me out a little bit. (laughs)
- This is my wheelhouse.
Creepypastas, when they were,
I mean, they still kind of are a thing but when they were like in their prime
I lived, laughed, loved in all of that.
I don't know why I had to dance through that entire segment,
but I really did. (laughs)
- Is it one of those infinite cycles?
(door squeaks)
Oh, he's back.
- Oh no, he's back.
- We're trapped!
- I think it's crazy how they just keep going.
♪ (howling music) ♪
- Oh, and there's some wolves. (laughs) Some wolves on the loose.
(monster thumping)
- Is that Siren Head?
- It's giving like Slender Man.
- Why don't you just start talking to him?
He's just chasing you to tell you about your car's extended warranty.
You don't know!
- Hey girl. Hey girlie pop.
(monster thumping)
- He's gonna be seen, 100%. 100% he's gonna be seen.
Oh, it's a jump scare right here.
Right here, 100%. I don't wanna look at the screen.
♪ (intense horror music) ♪ - Oh my God!
♪ (intense horror music) ♪ - Ah!
- My hands are sweating.
- Goodbye, hello, good morning and happy birthday!
(laughs)
- (React) (whispers) We've been trying to contact you regarding
your car's extended warranty.
Alright, so do you know what you just watched?
- I know very little.
- I've heard people talk about like The Backrooms,
and I feel like it kind of goes along with like liminal spaces.
- So I've seen quite a few things from The Backrooms.
Not specifically of his series alone,
because it's like its own little thing.
It's a little fandom, if you will.
- (React) Now this is a creepy liminal space series
with a combined over 72 million views.
- What?
- (React) There are a lot of different Backrooms series.
This one we're gonna react to today
is by 16 year old YouTuber, director and visual effects artist,
Kane Pixels. - He's 16?
That part, I didn't know. Way to go, come on Kane,
let's hear it for Kane!
Good morning, hello, and happy birthday!
(laughs)
- (robotic voice) Of July 2nd, 1988.
- Why does this kinda hit?
- (robotic voice) Research facility tested its low proximity...
- The voice is so like off-putting.
- Not to be ableist,
but this voice is really difficult to understand.
(laughs) I don't know if that's ableism.
- I don't even know what he's trying to tell me.
- He was like there's a magnetic thing,
the magnetic experiment, and those are the plans for it.
- Is that the Hawking voice?
That sounds so similar to The Stephen Hawking voice modulator.
- (robotic voice) That had not yet been released.
(voice warps)
(Izzy mimics warped voice)
- Got some Stranger Things [censored] going on right here.
- Those are really cool special effects.
(metal rumbling)
(electricity crackles)
- Woo, woo-woo-woo-woo! Yeah!
(alarm beeping)
- Ugh, I get such weird vibes.
It makes me like shake a little bit.
- I have so many questions, all the time, just in general,
but also about this.
- There was an experiment going on,
and I think that's how The Backrooms were created.
So we're learning Backrooms lore today.
- Oh okay, a couple years.
- Oh no, someone's missing already?
Not Nicolas Bolton, Troy Bolton's brother!
- Margaret Watson!
♪ (ominous music) ♪
- Is this people going missing?
♪ (ominous music) ♪
The audio design on this is chilling, it's great.
It's doing its work.
- See, this is like a mixture of Stranger Things,
but instead of The Upside Down, it's whatever the hell they were in
at the end of Us.
- Async?
- That's the laboratory that's creating The Backrooms.
- This is giving me like Annihilation vibes right here.
- Okay, how the hell is he making this?
Because those people look real. That's not a rendering.
- Oh.
- Is he burned?
- Okay, that's super Stranger Things as well.
That looks like the weird [censored], like tree hole.
- (cameraman) This makes no sense.
- What do you mean it makes no sense?
- Is that a monkey?
- Oh, that's our boy. RIP.
- So people are going missing, and they're going missing
because they're stumbling into these Backrooms.
- Maybe by either going through this portal,
or just falling through the world, like we saw the one guy do.
- It's like those glitches in The Matrix
where the bike comes from behind the truck,
and you're like where did that come from?
- Or, they're kidnapping these people,
and they're putting them in The Backrooms.
- March 5th, 1990.
- Damn, you would think that they would've learned
after what happened in the '80s with Stranger Things.
- Groovy soundtrack, honestly.
- Okay, we're back here.
Oh, they're building a little setup.
- Seven modified video cameras are optimally positioned
along lateral division A.
Each camera has... (laughs)
- Each camera has been modified to send out an alert
and begin recording when motion of substantial noise is detected.
- Okay, so they're gonna start tracking the thing.
Okay, I like it.
♪ (ethereal music) ♪
Oh, place isn't as big as I thought it...
Oh, never mind, the place is giant.
- The following is a compilation of all detected motion alerts
received during the night of Monday, March 5th.
- Three researchers pass central division D.
- Is that an alert, are we detecting movement here?
- I wonder how they got in there, without being eaten.
- Threshold barrier closed.
(alarm blares)
- Oh? (gasps)
- Oh.
- Oh, I didn't even see that.
- Hey, hey!
It's giving camp.
- That was like the first creature, right?
He looked taller than the first creature though.
- Sometimes on like YouTube or something,
you see a video where it's like a mythical creature,
skin-walker, this is like the backstory of it.
I feel like it's starting to become one of that.
- That's how I always feel with these kind of mystery videos
where it's like up to the audience to piece it together.
I always wonder how much of it is actually the result
of some grand design, of some genius
with this overarching plan,
and how much of it is like I'm gonna put these images together
and these images together, and someone will make sense out of it.
- I feel like he's trying to keep us confused.
- I'm kind of more intrigued now, because of this.
- May 6th, a day after.
- Sierra with the dates! Woo!
- Where are we going here?
- Oh, was it left open?
- Ooh, we got a man.
- Is that the leader of the corporation?
- Damn, they got a man, but I don't?
♪ (somber music) ♪
- (researcher) Oh wow, this is new.
- Oh wow, this is new.
- Okay yeah, I was gonna say, 'cause I'm like
if y'all built this, why are y'all saying wow?
But that makes sense that it's just expanding by itself.
- (researcher) Okay. - (researcher) Like seriously.
- (researcher) Yeah, I'm going.
- Why, why are you going?
- What's down there?
- (researcher) Just walking on normal ground.
- (whispers) What's down there?
(static crackles) - Ooh.
- Do a flip!
- Oh, I think that guy's gonna die.
- (researcher) Whoa, ah! - (researcher) Oh my God!
- Oh fun.
- Oh no, he didn't even do a flip.
- (laughs) Oh no. Oh, oh, that's a shame.
- (man) I'm on it.
- (researcher) Hang in there, Marv.
- Come on Marv, you can do it Marv.
We believe in you.
(man yells) - (researcher) What was that?
- (researcher) What was what?
(Danny yells)
(Danny laughs)
- It was the beginning of a Harry Belafonte song.
♪ Day-o ♪
- (researcher) I hear yelling, like a person is yelling.
(man yells) - (researcher) That's impossible.
- Okay, she got notes, babe.
- ♪ Day-o ♪ ♪ Daylight come ♪
- (researcher) Hey!
- Why? (laughs) - (researcher) Can you hear me?
- No.
- I bet that's the monster, just like talking.
- (React) There's also a theory that this exists in a parallel universe,
and the voices and screams that they hear...
- Oh.
- (React) Are from a parallel universe.
- (researcher) Marvin?
- Wait. - (researcher) That's not a person.
- You can see a thing, yeah.
- That's definitely not a person.
- (researcher) That is not a [censored] person!
- No it's not, babe.
- (researcher) What, talk to me, what do you see?
- Oh, he's dead. 100% dead.
- Of course he would fall, as they all do.
We lose our motor functions when scared.
- Stick man gotta do what he gotta do.
- (laughs) Get out of there, Marvin!
- (researcher) George come in. George, it's immediate.
- Why would you, wait, where did they go?
- Where the [censored] we at now?
- Ooh, we are in a new little space.
- Aw, they're still changing.
- This is the part in Squid Games where they have to roll the...
(laughs)
- Don't die, Marvin! We believe in you!
- Well, he got out though.
That's surprising, didn't think he'd make it.
- Oh, I was getting worried for Marvin, there.
- Hell yeah, Marv!
- I wasn't that invested, but,
the way they're doing these camera angles are great,
like I'm trying to crane my head to see down there,
what's around the corners and stuff, they're doing a good job.
♪ (ominous music) ♪
- Hey yo, it's the guys from Monsters, Inc!
- So right now, I'm assuming because of the suits and whatnot,
the government is now involved.
Gov gov is now involved.
Good old FBCI-EI-EI-O. Async!
- Is this like all rendering?
Or, like it has to be,
because obviously this place doesn't exist,
but it looks so real.
- Is this like more modern?
- There's a definite uptick in quality here.
I mean, this is clearly not from the '80s.
There's modern color grading and lightning,
and you can tell this is shot on a new camera.
Just that shot of the TV turning on, it's so crisp.
- I think this project has been getting more,
since it's been getting more views, they're getting more people involved.
But now we have actors in this.
I think this is like adding in a story.
- Ooh.
- Wait, are they building walls?
I feel like you should be tearing down walls,
(laughs) not building new ones.
I mean, I guess if you don't want whatever that thing is to come get ya.
- As with most things, they're trying to conquistador this situation.
- I feel like they're trying to like document everything, right?
'Cause you don't know what's going on.
You just know that there's something in there,
it's probably killing people, wanna see what it is,
and it's probably like mysterious.
- Are they trying to close it off forever, maybe?
Maybe something's trying to escape, and they wanna prevent such a thing?
- I'm like shaking. (laughs) This is like suspenseful.
- Damn, I feel like I wish
that I could just like watch an entire season of this now.
- There is like bits and pieces that are quote-unquote canon,
but for the most part, the actual lore and story
of what the hell is going on has not been released,
so you can, the conspiracy theorists go banana bonkers
trying to figure out why everything is figured out.
It feels like it's just like a found footage thing,
so people put the realism into that.
- You know what I think is gonna happen though?
One day he's gonna release something,
and then just stop.
- I think there's gonna be more.
I think one of those creatures is gonna get out,
and I think we're gonna see it in the real world.
At least that's what I'd like to see.
- I feel like there's more than can be done.
I would like to see them actually encounter Siren Head,
like where he's not just killing people.
Like maybe get him and do tests on him.
- I wanna learn more about the thing.
I think that's the most interesting thing.
- I enjoyed that.
I'm probably gonna keep on following on. (laughs)
While he's posting.
- Good morning, hello, and happy birthday.
(laughs)
This is supposed to be like a really scary video,
and I'm sitting here like (laughs) boop-boop!
- (React) Good morning, San Diego.
- Good morning, San...
♪ Rice-A-Roni ♪ ♪ The San Francisco treat, boop ♪