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A Southern California mall is seemingly seeing an uptick in visitors thanks to thesurprise box office horrormovie “Backrooms” as people seek “liminal experiences” similar to the film.
The Los Angeles Puente Hills Mall is not unlike other once vibrant shopping centers that used to be filled with customers before internet shopping websites crushed these expansive indoor shopping malls.
But now thanks to a young Hollywood director with ties to Southern California, the nearly empty mall is the perfect place for fans ofthe new filmto find the same scary experience they had while watching the psychological thriller.
Sincethe film’s release, people have headed to the AMC theater in the mall to catch the film, filling up social media sites like Instagram, TikTok, and X with spooky videos and pictures of the eerie halls, taking followers on a mini-thrill ride.
Puente Hills Mall feels like a ghost from another California timeline 😳 Once one of the busiest malls in the SGV, now it sits half-lit and hollow, famous for its abandoned storefronts, dead escalators, and eerie quiet halls that still carry echoes of the 2000s.#backrooms#puentehillsmall#liminal#losangeles#haunted
“Once one of the busiest malls in the SGV (San Gabriel Valley), now it sits half-lit and hollow, famous for its abandoned storefronts, dead escalators, and eerie quiet halls that still carry echoes of the 2000s.” one person captioned their video onTikTok.
The “Backrooms” movie uses empty office spaces, abandoned malls and fluorescent lighted hallways to create a liminal space-which isdescribedas an “in-between space that exists on the boundary of what came before and what has not yet arrived. “
Sometimes I forget The Backrooms are actually in the Puente Hills Mallpic.twitter.com/0PNl5KkOzj
“The AMC that’s truly keeping this place alive was the best place I could’ve ever seen the ‘Backrooms” movie.”
Source: California Post – Breaking California News, Photos & Videos
