r/backroomsmovie

I’m late to this as I just watched Backrooms today (Oct 2026). Pardon me if my theory has been mentioned already.

I have a theory that the Backrooms were deliberately created by Async based on their previous work with MRI/brain technology, and that the way the Backrooms function is actually modeled after the human brain.

What if the Backrooms aren’t just an endlessly generated physical space, but something that behaves almost like a brain?

The space expands as more memories are introduced to it. When people enter, the Backrooms somehow absorbs or interprets their memories and uses them to create new rooms, objects, and environments. That could explain why so many areas resemble familiar human spaces but feel slightly wrong: offices, hallways, houses, stores, etc. They’re not necessarily places that physically existed. They’re imperfect reconstructions of things stored in people’s memories.

Basically, the more people who enter, the more “memories” the Backrooms has to build from, and the larger and more complex it becomes.

That also made me rethink the hazmat suits.The obvious assumption is that Async employees wear them because they’re afraid of being exposed to something dangerous inside the Backrooms.

But what if it’s actually the opposite? What if the suits are meant to isolate the employees from the Backrooms, preventing the space from reading or absorbing their memories?

Maybe Async eventually realized that every unprotected person they sent inside was unintentionally giving the Backrooms more information to work with. The hazmat suits aren’t there to stop something from getting into the humans.

They’re there to stop something from the humans getting into the Backrooms.

And if that’s true, Async didn’t just discover an infinite liminal space. They created something that learns from us.

I think a good setting would be following a High School teacher that's not very well liked somehow finds a null zone within the school somewhere after hours. The complex copying the school/students memories I think would be an interesting angle. Thoughts?

I NEED WEBSITES WITH GOOD BACKROOMS STUFF TO BUY FROM!!