Video summary
The Backrooms movie recently received an extended release featuring sixteen minutes of new footage titled "Everything Must Go," which offers a deeper dive into the film's lore and world-building before the main narrative begins. This additional content introduces three surveyors, including Narin Warren, who are tasked with mapping out the Colona branch, a specific area within the Backrooms complex associated with Captain Clark's Ottoman Empire store. The footage provides an immersive look at the environment through the eyes of these workers as they explore warped textures, unique rooms, and strange architectural anomalies like angled doorways and blended no-clipped spaces. These scenes serve to expand the universe established in the film, presenting a more detailed and intrinsic experience for fans who appreciate the intricate construction of the Backrooms' reality.
A significant portion of this extra footage focuses on the discovery of "Everything Must Go" signs that appear to be glitched or no-clipped into the floor from real life. The surveyors analyze these signs with an obsessive curiosity, cutting up the carpet and drilling through walls to examine their patterns, chemical compositions, and physical integration into the concrete. Through this investigation, they reveal that the signs are not independent entities but rather copies of a single original sign, creating a repeating pattern that eventually leads them deeper into the structure. As they push further, they encounter unsettling elements such as mannequin hands protruding through walls and a dark room filled with decorations from Clark's store, highlighting the Backrooms' tendency to replicate and distort real-world objects until they lose their original meaning.
The narrative tension escalates when the surveyors are ambushed by Pirate Clark, leading Narin to flee back into the main yellow halls of Level Zero, effectively bridging the gap between this extended footage and the start of the actual movie. The video suggests that the beginning of the film takes place immediately after these events, with Narin running from Pirate Clark while clutching a duffel bag containing VHS tapes and floppy discs that likely served as instructional materials for setting up their base. This sequence underscores a central theme of addiction to exploration; despite the obvious dangers and logical reasons to retreat, the characters are driven by an insatiable desire to map the unmapped territories and discover what lies beyond the known corridors.
Ultimately, this extended footage serves as a prologue that enriches the understanding of the Backrooms' mechanics and the psychological state of its inhabitants. It illustrates how the complex functions as a place where reality is constantly copied and distorted, creating environments that are both familiar and terrifyingly alien. While some viewers may find the additional world-building excessive, it provides crucial context for the entities, such as the furniture crab, and the specific dangers lurking within the walls. By showing the transition from a structured survey mission to chaotic survival, the footage effectively sets the stage for the horror that unfolds in the main film, offering a comprehensive breakdown of the lore that connects the real world with the surreal nightmare of the Backrooms.
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The Backrooms movie re-released to
theaters a few weeks ago with 16 extra
minutes of footage at the end. This has
been titled the Everything Must Go
Edition. And in those 16 minutes, we get
a ton of new Easter eggs, new lore, and
just general world building that
actually leads up to the beginning of
the Back Rooms movie. So today I'm going
to go see the movie again for the fourth
time and then I'm going to explain all
the extra footage at the end for you
all. So if you want to stick around for
a breakdown of the extra footage, what
it means, my theories on it, and a few
little Easter eggs I noticed, please
stick around for this video. And let's
go ahead and dive into all the lore, and
I'll break it down for you right here in
this video. Let's do it.
The extra footage begins with a title
card that says June 18th, 1990. Now,
this date is exactly 11 days before
Clark himself is caught on the security
cameras later on in the movie walking
around. We get a little title card that
says this is a preliminary layout survey
via the Colona branch. And then it says
footage relevant to everything must go
analysis. Video operator Narin Warren.
Narin is of course the same guy that we
see at the beginning of the actual movie
running around. Later on, Clark finds
his little name tag inside of a duffel
bag. We we'll talk about that in a
second. But on this title card, we also
see that the Colona branch is here. And
this is of course the name for the
backrooms area. The branch where Captain
Clark's Ottoman Empire is. It's what we
see on the security footage when we
witness Clark walking around and it's
just generally what they refer to that
area, that branch as. This does of
course indicate that there are multiple
branches across the world with all
different code names. We then cut to a
few async yellow suit guys, including
Narin or my goat from Victorious Beck,
walking around into the complex and
beginning to explore the area. I
actually really like this extra footage
because it reminds me a lot of the tile
survey from the YouTube channel Cain
Pixels when he uploaded that. I I just
really like the world building of these
kind of things. So, that's pretty much
what this is. I know some people didn't
like it, but I'm a nerd and I actually
did like it. At this point in the
footage, we get a few images popping up
of doors and hallways that kind of look
eerily familiar to things we've seen
before in the movie. specific corridors
kind of line up with the right width and
the design of actual scenes from the
movie and just other things like that
drop a little few little hints to what
we just saw from the beginning. Right
after these pictures, we cut to more
footage of these three guys surveying.
And I think the coolest part of these
clips is that we get to see more unique
rooms and warped textures inside of the
complex. We see a few random archways.
We see weird pillars. We see strange
small entrances. My favorite part of the
movie was the wacky blended noclipipped
rooms that don't make any sense. The
pitfalls, the angled doorways, the
stairs. I really enjoyed that part of
the back rooms, and I'm glad we see more
of it here. The three crazy lunatic
workers then enter a room where they
find signs that have no clipped from the
Ottoman Empire store from real life into
the back rooms. The signs say,
"Everything must go. Entire store on
sale." Of course, we see these exact
signs plenty of times early on in the
movie and throughout the movie, and
that's cool. But this actual instance in
this footage is the first interaction
with these signs that we get from the
employees. This seems to be some kind of
new area or structure that they had not
previously seen before. So, they start
to photograph it and to kind of discover
and analyze what these signs have to
offer. I find this scene really
interesting for several reasons. One is
that these three async guys mention a
purple desk or a table that they had
come across previously throughout their
journeys, I guess. And one of the guys
really doesn't like the the desk at all.
Now, I have a personal theory that the
reason that he doesn't like it is that
that desk or table is actually an
instance of a furniture crab entity,
which I just made a video discussing.
This was essentially a type of entity
that was going to be included in the
back rooms movie. It's a living table
essentially or anything with four legs
that's a piece of furniture. They walk
around randomly and have kind of
abstract bouts of movement, but we know
from Cain Pixel's direct audio cut that
Captain Clark doesn't like these little
entities. So maybe it stands to reason
that async workers wouldn't like them
either. Another reason I really find
this scene interesting is that these
guys are really excited and almost
obsessed in a way about finding more
things that have no clipped into the
back rooms and into the floor. They seem
like kids in candy stores. They almost,
like I said, mirror Clark's obsession
with the back rooms and maybe even Ivan
Beck's obsession, going further into it,
exploring further and seeing what lies
just beyond these new corridors. And
these signs are that next step into kind
of discovering what else the backrooms
has to offer. Anyways, we get some clips
of them kind of explaining what they're
seeing. And this audio is from a clip
explaining that exact emission that they
find later on. But we do get to get some
pretty cool visuals of the signs
themselves. We get some mathematics that
are smart stuff, math. I'm I'm not a
math guy, but essentially we find that
these things have a different offset.
There's kind of a pattern of them. Some
are deeper into the ground than the
others. But next, we get to a few really
cool pictures that I I think are just
awesome. Okay, the async workers cut up
the carpet to look at how the sign is no
clipped or glitched into the ground. And
we get a really cool image of the sign
when it's ripped out of the ground being
flush. Whatever's left of the sign and
the ground is flush with the ground as
if it was put there when the original
floor was placed or concrete was poured
or whatever it was. I think it's
concrete, but yeah, whenever the
concrete was poured, it's like the sign
was shoved down into the wet concrete. I
really like this part because it's very
Cain Parsonsy. He's overexlaining like
really niche parts of the world and it
makes it a very intrinsic experience and
a very overwhelmingly worldb buildinging
vibe that I really like. They analyze
more of the things from the sign like
the scratches on it and the ink. And
they even cut the rest of them flush to
the floor to measure the chemical
makeups of the actual sign. They found
that these are definitely screen printed
from real life and the things that
they're constructed out of the the metal
wire hanging it up and the actual
cardboard are pretty standard from real
life. The most notable thing they
discover though is that these signs are
not three separate instances of three
different signs. After analysis, it was
discovered that the sign is the same
thing copied three different times.
Rather than three independent signs
being taken from Clark's store, the back
rooms took one sign and copied it those
three times or four or five. We'll go on
to figure out how many there are later,
but it copied the same sign multiple
times because these signs are in this
kind of weird curved pattern of sorts.
Uh, one of the guys thinks that the
pattern probably continues further on
and the signs might get smaller and
deeper into the ground. The only problem
is there's a wall on the way. So, they
decide to cut a hole in the wall to see
if the pattern does continue.
Eventually, it does. We get a pretty
cool look at this small, terrifying
space between the drywall and the next
wall. This reminds me a lot of when uh
Clark was running away from Pirate Clark
after Pirate Clark ate his co-workers,
and he kind of slipped between the wall
space. That's what this place looks
like. I've said many times in these
explanation videos how much I despise
these claustrophobic shots. We're not
supposed to see what exists between
walls, and it feels extremely unnatural
to do so. But while they're looking
back, they see another sign. Lo and
behold, in the ground, meaning that the
pattern does continue. We also see
drywall and framing and 2x4s and plywood
and piping and wiring, just as well.
This shows that the backrooms is indeed
constructed like a regular building
would be, as we've seen from lighting
and tile survey and things like that. As
they're looking through this crack and
they bend down, they notice a little bit
down the opposite way what looks to be a
hand. No clip through the other side of
the adjacent wall. Zooming up with the
camera, uh, it it does show a hand, but
it looks to be a mannequin's hand and
not a real hand, which is just slightly
less creepy, maybe even more creepy. I
don't know. Anyways, Narin wants to
leave. This is the guy that has the
camera. He wants to get out. He's
terrified. I agree with him. He probably
should leave and go back to the base
that they're constructing. No one
listens, of course, again with that
obsession of trying to find what's
deeper and explore what's further on in
the back rooms. I think the back rooms
has that intrinsic draw to several
people, Clark included, Ivan Beck, and
of course, these two other guys probably
have the same vibe. Anyways, now they
see this hand, no clip, they get curious
as to what's on the other side of that
wall. So, they cut into it, and they end
up in this really dark room, and it has
a very sinister energy. It's it's
insidious in a way. And then we pan over
and we see what looks to be decorations
from the Ottoman Empire from Clark's
store. We see a ship's wheel being held
by that mannequin in question. And the
mannequin's hand is indeed shoved
through the wall. We see plenty of other
things from Clark's store as well. We
see some boxes. We see different rooms
that I think appeared earlier in the
movie, if I remember correctly. We see
the ship's wheels. We see some signs and
a few other different corridors and
things like that are taken directly and
copied from the Ottoman Empire. We see
previously at the end of the actual
movie that the entire store has a
version of it no clipped into the back
room. So we see it. It's kind of like
the indoor version. But as we know the
backrooms takes things and copies them
over and over and over and over again
until eventually it forgets what it is.
And I think this place they just kind of
burrowed into is a decopied version. One
that's different and it feels different
because it's been copied so many times
from the original one from real life.
Maybe I could be wrong. I don't know.
Eventually, these three guys continue to
explore this new area because it seems
to be kind of a a new part of the map
has been opened up for them. And uh it's
really cool except it's not. It's
terrifying. So Narin, of course, wants
to leave. The other people don't, and
they want to push further on. They say
it's safe. They say it's fine until they
hear a noise. As they walk down the
hallway, they begin to see more
mannequins, more stuff, no clipped until
eventually they see a old CRT TV with
the Ottoman Empire sign above it
pointing right down at it. Now, we see
this sign earlier in the movie pointing
downstairs into Clark's store. And this
TV that the sign is pointing at has
Mandarin lettering on it, which I
believe says no signal. Could be wrong,
but I think it translates to no signal.
And that no signal thing is intercut
with sounds almost like Mario music kind
of or maybe at least what the back rooms
thinks Mario music is should sound like
playing over strange visuals. We get a
visual of a kitchen. We get some weird
hallways. And it is very unnerving to
see. I I don't like it. But I want to
draw your attention away from the actual
screen and what's on it to look below
because we see a TV stand. It looks an
awful lot like the TV stand we see
earlier because we also see bottles of
alcohol on it. The same ones Clark is
drinking earlier in the movie. You know,
when he's in the Ottoman Empire, kind of
drinking his sorrows away. That's
exactly the TV setup we see here. The
only problem is this takes place before
Clark enters the back rooms, which
probably means that he's been drinking
up there alone for a long time,
unfortunately. Anyways, staring at this
TV, you get kind of insidious, negative
vibes, demonic, if you will. more noises
begin to happen and before you know it,
more noises come from the left to the
hallway. At this point, we see good old
Pirate Clark storm into the room,
attacking one of the guys, and then our
main cameraman, Narin, uh, runs away for
his life. The footage, of course, ends
with him running down the hallway trying
to escape. Now, if you remember, at the
very beginning of the actual film, we
are greeted with found footage that
opens up the original kind of movie.
That's how it starts with Narin
recording found footage. I think the
beginning of the movie takes place right
after the end of this extra footage with
Narin running away from Pyro Clark and
this new kind of area they just
discovered. He's running away and he
gets down back to the back rooms of
level zero, kind of the main part of the
complex and that's where we cut to the
beginning of the movie where he's
running down the yellow halls away from
Pirate Clark. Unfortunately, he does get
eaten by Pirate Clark, but Clark later
on finds his badge and his duffel bag of
random stuff inside along with VHS tapes
and floppy discs and that sort of thing.
So, that's how the extra footage ends.
There are a few different kind of found
footage Easter eggs I want to discuss
just real quick that I didn't talk about
already. So, uh, lock in. The entire
reason that these three guys are walking
around is because I think they're
supposed to be setting up a base and we
see it at the the end of the beginning.
Uh, this is confusing, I know, but at
the end of the beginning of the found
footage, the very start of the film, we
see Narin walk over to these tables with
these communication devices. I think
they were going to try to set up a base
there, this Colona branch, if you will,
right there. That was the base. That was
their mission. And they were trying to
figure out and explore around themselves
to see the lay of the land, to map it
out, [music] and that sort of thing.
Things that kind of lead credence to
this theory are when Clark opens up the
duffel bag, we see kind of a little
floppy disc and a VHS tape, which
probably is like a startup thing, kind
of like an instructional video for these
guys, like when they set up their base
to know what to do and stuff. Something
like that is probably what it is. We
also see other little things on the
actual tables like communication devices
and equipment like that and uh research
devices and and other things of that
nature. Now, I watched one of my
favorite YouTubers actually, Red. I
watched her explanation of this uh extra
found footage. Actually, we we kind of
uploaded these at the same time. I've
had this video done for a while and she
uploaded it and I was like, "Well, dude,
I got to watch it to make sure I got
everything right and stuff." And and she
pointed out a very interesting thing and
it's when they cut into the wall to find
to see if the the pattern continues and
stuff. I wonder if they could have cut
the other way to see if the signs get
bigger and bigger rather than smaller
and smaller like the angle they chose.
Cuz the pattern we see is the kind of
the biggest sign is on this side and it
goes to the small sign. What if it keeps
getting bigger and bigger and bigger
until it's just an entire room of a
giant sign? I don't know. It'd be pretty
cool. Throughout this extra footage, we
also see tons of different doors and
things of that nature with no clipped
handles, multiple handles, odd geometry.
Like I mentioned at the beginning of
this breakdown, those are my favorite
parts. I love those types of things in
the back rooms movie. It just makes it
so much more immersive and believable to
me. This footage also shows the thing
I've been mentioning the entire video,
and that is this dark desire, this
addiction that some people get to the
complex. They cannot stop exploring
[music] it. They want to go deeper
despite it not being safe. Like it's
objectively a stupid idea to walk
towards a TV screen that's playing
strange music and to follow a mannequin
with her hand no clipped and to not run
away when you hear signs of an entity.
That's all stupid. But it doesn't matter
to these people because they are
addicted and enthralled with the idea of
what the complex stands for. This
unmapped out place, this place where
nobody's been, this final frontier. They
think that they're the ones that are
worthy of exploring it, so to speak. And
they are addicted to that feeling. So,
they, you know, follow down and explore
it and it eventually probably leads to
everybody's demise. Whatever the case
is, I really enjoy this extra footage.
If you have any theories on what this is
showing or if I missed something,
comment it down below. I'd love to hear
about it. I thought it was really cool.
Some of my favorite parts of this world
is the world building. I did see where a
lot of people didn't like it. They
thought it was useless. I thought it
should have been a YouTube upload,
maybe. I really enjoyed it. Thank you
for watching the video to the end. I
really did hope you enjoyed my
breakdown. If I missed anything, uh, go
watch Red's video. She does a phenomenal
job of explaining the minute details
that even I am too slow to understand.
So, go check her out. Awesome content as
always. I do hope you enjoyed my
breakdown from what I kind of
established, from what I saw. I really
like seeing this. It was great. This
video came out a little late. I had the
script done for a while, but I just been
really busy make other content. You guys
know the deal. Thank you so much for
watching. I do love and appreciate each
and every one of you. And uh, I'll see
you wherever I see you next.