The Backrooms (Found Footage)

**The Backrooms (Found Footage)** is a horror short film by Kane Pixels. The film is based on the online myth of the same name, and is the first uploaded video in Kane Pixels' Backrooms series. The video takes place after Backrooms - Presentation and long before Backrooms - Found Footage 2. In the description, there is a link to the unlisted video Mar11\_90\_ARCHIVE.tar. The film follows Kane Pints, a cameraman who falls into the Backrooms.

## Plot

On July 4th, 1991, Kane Pints is filming an amateur film with other people. After shooting a certain scene of an ape rounding the corner of a container to scare an unsuspecting man with a hat, the director tells Kane to move back for a wide shot. While moving backwards, Kane phases through the ground and falls into the Backrooms.

Confused and frightened, Kane walks around the maze of yellow walls while he continues to film. While walking down a long and dark corridor, he hears something behind him and looks back. A creature is following him and quickly hides behind a corner, but Kane thinks nothing of it. He continues walking, finding a small sliver in a wall and looks through it. On the other side is another long corridor with a door at the end. He continues and finds a ladder leading up to a small opening in a wall, which he climbs through, but the other side is more of the same. Later, the creature pokes its head around a corner at Kane (who is still exploring), but Kane doesn’t notice.

Eventually, Kane reaches a room with arrows painted on the wall and follows them. They lead him to a drawing of a face on the wall, with several words written underneath. A confused Kane looks at one such line, “DONT MOVE STAY STILL”, through his camera. As he tries to make sense of it, he hears a horribly distorted scream behind him. The creature reveals itself, and starts to chase after him, screaming the entire time. Kane eventually narrowly escapes by jumping down a pit, causing the camera to glitch out.

Kane is now in a basement like area with a large staircase. He goes up the stairs, turning the lights off along the way via a light switch. The stairs lead to a new area of the Backrooms that looks like an empty galley, which he begins exploring. He looks out of a window and sees a courtyard. He passes a dumpster with weird graffiti, with a rope laying next to it. After walking down the entire hallway, he encounters a wide chasm blocking his way, with an infinite number of windows lining the edges. He begins to question his sanity.

Kane goes back and passes several filing cabinets and finds a door with an exit sign on top. The door opens to a stair leading up to another door, but the other door only leads back to the maze of yellow walls. Despite his disappointment and knowledge of the monster, he goes back. While going through another hallway, the monster tosses a chair at the wall on the end. Kane immediately runs away, hearing the monster’s faint howling. He finds a dark room to hide in and observes the strange creature through the opening. He goes in deeper and encounters a steep pit, but as he is preparing to jump, he hears a faint but deep “Hoo” sound. Turning around, he sees the monster, which most likely kills him.

As the monster grabs Kane, he drops the camera and it falls down the pit, causing the footage to glitch out due to hitting the walls. The camera then phases through the walls and reappears back in reality high up in the sky and falls down and lands on a lawn.

## Notes

1. ↑ At one point during the chase, Bacteria is shown in a "T-pose" stance and phasing though walls. The Bacteria T-pose has been later confirmed by Kane Pixels to be non-canon, labeling it as just "bad animation."
2. ↑ This area is almost exactly identical to a liminal photo showing a house with a staircase. The taker of this photo is unknown.
3. ↑ The interior courtyard is completely identical to a liminal photo taken at an interior area of Holiday Inn Express London Heathrow T4, an IHG Hotel.