actually now you’ve got me thinking about a backrooms movie. maybe this won’t make any sense but pardon my rambling. I think it’d be interesting, set into a movie or book, I think a book might not be too long but I dont know, I only have a little idea you inspired by saying no monsters — say for movie; now, actually I want to start off by saying I know nothing about the “lore” behind the backrooms other than being Neverending and how some people have said there’s different “areas” in the backrooms, so that’s what I’m going off of for this idea – anyway, I think it should start off as a classic maybe dare, or something. someone shouldn’t go into this rundown home or mall or whatever because it has a history of people never coming back out, the movie would use the idea that there is a monster hiding in this place. that its haunted, I think if set in a book too it would be a trope of like, the unreliable narrator. but im not sure exactly how it’d work, anyway back to the idea. said person goes in, at first its a bit normal, yknow, its rundown, they go into a few rooms everything’s fine, I think it’d be best if this person is fully alone, sets in the idea of the slow level of fear setting in. they’re like “this is all good, nothing strange so far” until they cross and open a door and suddenly this room looks very different than any other part of the house. door closes. its the regular look of the yellowed walls of the backrooms, they turn to open the door – the door is still the same dark wood or whatever was originally there, its not gone or changed, what has changed is whats behind the door. instead of the house, its more yellowed walls. panic is setting in, but our mc is still strong! it goes on like regular for a while, I think it’d be a movie thats boring, but interesting. I think I would watch it. thats not the end though, I thought of them starting to see things – give the audience the idea that there is a monster lurking in these walls, but you and I both know there isn’t any such thing. since the mind starts playing tricks to keep us sane after hearing nothing and seeing nothing but those yellow walls for hours, or has it been days now? we see things take shape of the mcs fears, but whenever they go to it, its not there, it never was. maybe add in auditory hallucinations too. they keep moving but everything still looks the same. at the climax of the movie, I think, they find another door, and this door leads to an opening, it looks like the outside, except, the door closes when they walk it, showing that while it looks like outside, its still locked inside, theres walls all around it. anyway, idk, this might have been a dumb idea lol, I was just thinking of it from the small thing I read from you.