Annihilation Vs. Backrooms
A mysterious agency sends groups of people to investigate and study an unexplored area, confined by an invisible entrance, where everything is copied, transformed and reinterpreted?? It's beautiful how horror is exploring the weird tropes and giving so much space to space, how we occupy it, both interiors (backrooms) and landscape.
And Backrooms showed us how those liminal spaces are real in the real world, showing those alienated american interiors, and such thing was only accomplished by Vandermeer in the book with the Parking Lot or the Biologist's Pool, where we can see real manifestations of Area X in the real world - I do love Garland's take on Annihilation, even though i would have loved to see more of an explicit reference to Anthropocenic tropes.
Do you have any thoughts on these two weird projects compared? Let me know folks!!