Sep 6, 2026 · 17 min · 9 segments
This week on *Movie Chats*, Ant & Ry review Backrooms (2026), the psychological horror film from director Kane Parsons, based on the viral internet phenomenon and his hugely popular YouTube series…
But to come back to the many, many, many rooms, the first thing I have to say, shout out to the production design of this movie.
And whoever designed and produced and made those sets, hats off.
It's wonderful.
Yeah,
because there's no AI at all.
No.
There might be some computer-generated stuff.
but it's all kind of practical effects.
Yeah.
Like this whole labyrinth of whatever is down there is just, it's almost completely, they built it.
I think it was like 30,000 feet, square feet, 10,000 square metres of land, which is just,
mind-blowing it's crazy and funny enough that it's no ai when it really reminded me of ai slops all the generation you know especially when the movie is telling you well Just describe someone who has never seen a dog and ask them to draw it.
And this is the result that you are going to get.
Things are going to feel familiar, but things are going to feel off.
And AI has come leaps and bounds when it comes to image generation.
But if you're thinking of the early AI, and still now, you can still have some AI slot.
This is what rooms would look like with things that are familiar, but a bit crooked or inside the walls or sinking and stuff.
The people, the face would be a bit distorted and things like that.
That's really what it reminded me of.
Yeah, yeah, completely, yeah.
Now you think about it, yeah, that's 100%.
Yeah.
Obviously, there's quite a few bits of it where it's, It's the point of view where it's just like, it's just obviously when they're doing the camera work, I'm like, oh, that's very X-A-ish.
It's just, I really like that.
But to come back to the many, many, many rooms, the first thing I have to say, shout out to the production design of this movie.
And whoever designed and produced and made those sets, hats off.
It's wonderful.
Yeah,
because there's no AI at all.
No.
There might be some computer-generated stuff.
but it's all kind of practical effects.
Yeah.
Like this whole labyrinth of whatever is down there is just, it's almost completely, they built it.
I think it was like 30,000 feet, square feet, 10,000 square metres of land, which is just,
mind-blowing it's crazy and funny enough that it's no ai when it really reminded me of ai slops all the generation you know especially when the movie is telling you well Just describe someone who has never seen a dog and ask them to draw it.
And this is the result that you are going to get.
Things are going to feel familiar, but things are going to feel off.
And AI has come leaps and bounds when it comes to image generation.
But if you're thinking of the early AI, and still now, you can still have some AI slot.
This is what rooms would look like with things that are familiar, but a bit crooked or inside the walls or sinking and stuff.
The people, the face would be a bit distorted and things like that.
That's really what it reminded me of.
Yeah, yeah, completely, yeah.
Now you think about it, yeah, that's 100%.
Yeah.
Obviously, there's quite a few bits of it where it's, It's the point of view where it's just like, it's just obviously when they're doing the camera work, I'm like, oh, that's very X-A-ish.
It's just, I really like that.
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