《后室》：从网络恐怖到银幕迷宫

Clockwise from main: Panic room: Clark (Chiwetel Ejiofor) looks for an escape route; Is Mary (Renate Reinsve) at death’s door?; Should’ve stayed at home. Confused? You will be. Unless, of course, you’re familiar with Parsons’ web series that grew out of a creepypasta image of a large, oddly shaped room. From the thrumming disquietude of that image, Parsons built 20-plus instalments revolving around fictional research facility Async as it attempts to document a dimension outside of reality. Now, in the movie, Async scientists led by Mark Duplass haunt the periphery, but the main focus is civilian Clark (Chiwetel Ejiofor), who inexplicably passes through a wall in the basement of his drab furniture store, into the Backrooms. …