Ahead of A24's Backrooms release, director Kane Parsons has been discussing not only the influences behind this film, but also his early career, which includes his web series and the hugely popular The Backrooms (found footage). And as it turns out, a certain Valve game has played a very influential role in his creative works.
"Portal would be the earliest influence," Parsons says in an interview with Letterboxd. "It's the easiest one for me to pin down as like the strongest influence over everything I've done in my entire life probably.
"The general set construction of the Portal games is something that's been in my brain for so long, I frequently have dreams where I'm just in the Aperture [Science Enrichment] Center. It's not yellow, it's very gray, and blue, and kind of bleak. And by the...
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