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The Backrooms movie features a cast of well-known entities like Pirate Clark and the Still Life creatures, but recent commentary from director Kane Parsons has revealed information about a secret entity known as furniture crabs that was almost included in the film. These unique beings are described as fleshy, crab-like organisms that inhabit tables and other wooden structures within Level Zero. While they were not visually depicted on screen during the movie's runtime, their existence is hinted at through cryptic imagery found in murals painted by Pirate Clark himself, specifically a quote stating "Tables don't bleed." This phrase likely refers to instances where an angry Pirate Clark attacked these creatures with such force that they bled, leading him to believe furniture was incapable of injury. The biology and behavior of the furniture crabs are fascinatingly detailed through fan-created diagrams based on Parsons' interviews, suggesting they function as a novel species derived from wood termites rather than simple physical objects. These entities utilize their host's wooden structure as an exoskeleton without burrowing into it in traditional ways, instead being generated directly by the Backrooms complex itself. Their movement is characterized by frantic, random activity similar to that of dogs or crabs on a beach, driven not by hunger or hunting instincts but simply for amusement and mischief. They navigate their environment using sensory setae and display problem-solving abilities, effectively acting as sentient amalgamations designed to confuse inhabitants rather than threaten them directly. Beyond the visual description, there are compelling theories regarding what these entities represent within the Backrooms' reality-warping logic. One interpretation suggests they are a misremembered recreation of household pets like dogs or cats, where the complex retains knowledge that animals have four legs but fills in other details with random furniture shapes due to its distorted perception. Another theory posits that they manifest from Pirate Clark's intense hatred for his low-quality job and terrible furniture; the Backrooms may have taken these negative emotions and transformed them into monsters specifically designed to scare him, explaining why he views them as vermin despite their docile nature. This concept reinforces the idea that the Backrooms distorts real-world memories and feelings into tangible horrors or quirks within its levels. Although currently confined to Level Zero in this iteration of the lore, the introduction of furniture crabs opens up possibilities for future expansions of Kane Parsons' universe involving other locations like the Red City or Pool Rooms. The fact that almost any piece of four-legged furniture could potentially be a sentient entity implies that much of the clutter seen throughout the movie might actually house these hidden beings waiting to scurry around and play tricks on anyone who turns their back. While they were likely cut from the final film for pacing or realism reasons, their inclusion in official commentary canonizes them as an important part of the story's deeper mystery regarding how reality is misremembered and reshaped within this strange dimension.
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The Backrooms movie has several entities that you already know about. There's Pirate Clark, of course. These are the most popular one of the movie. Then there's the Still Life entities. You got the big fat guy with the beard. You got our favorite Archibald Leland Sutter. And then you have the red-headed Still Life, which is probably Clark's wife, who he then scalps before Pirate Clark eats Clark. I made a video about all those entities already, but recently after the movie's released, we have new information about a secret entity that almost was included in the movie and still is technically included in it. We have this information directly from Kane Parsons himself in the director's commentary about the movie, and that entity is known as furniture crabs. >> And the >> [music] >> the furniture crabs. There's a little table that scurries around like a very fast crab. [music] So, more like a hit crab. >> That sounds terrifying. >> Yeah, no, Clark, specifically Pirate Clark, hates it. And I like to think during this period of time they go on little adventures together, like while Mary's away and we're we're we're away from Clark. This this whole little whimsical [music] sitcom going on between the two of them. >> Now, furniture crabs sound pretty awesome to me, so I want to make a whole video talking about them today. I think they might be pretty important and play a large role in the movie, even though we don't see them, and I'll explain that just in a second. Just wait. Today, I want to tell all you wonderful viewers about furniture crabs, everything we know about them, their biology, where they come from, what they look like, every single thing that I can talk about, I will talk about them in this video. If that sounds cool, please leave a like on the video. That way the algorithm knows that you still care. I would appreciate that. And let's go ahead and get into this explanation. Let's talk about the furniture crabs, shall we? >> [music] >> Now, I know what you're thinking right off the bat. You know, this seems kind of random. We didn't see any instances of these creatures kind of moving around or whatever, but I don't think it actually is random because I believe these furniture crab entities were actually hinted at inside of the movie in the large creepy mural that Mary finds. You know, the one with like the entity throwing the guy out the window, the cryptic text, all that stuff. A lot of this imagery inside of the mural is is very cryptic, very scary. I'm going to make a video talking about it and kind of breaking it down, but one part of the mural that was really difficult for me to understand before the furniture crabs came out was the quote that says "Tables don't bleed." That text is just right there in the middle of the entire mural, and that's random. It's a creepy sentence, like it's terrifying to hear the idea that tables might bleed, but whoever wrote the mural, whoever drew it, said "Tables don't bleed." As if they saw it happen. I'm under the belief that Clark himself painted this mural, and in his insane state, he's just copying down stuff that he's seen in fleeting memories and that kind of thing. But now that we know that furniture crabs, these kind of fleshy blood creatures that look like furniture exist, maybe that's exactly what Clark's referring to when he said that tables aren't supposed to bleed. From this same audio interview with Cain Parsons about the movie, he says that Pirate Clark specifically hates furniture crabs. The entity thinks they're like vermin. He just wants to kill them off for some reason, which is kind of crazy cuz they seem pretty cool, but maybe one time Clark himself was walking with Pirate Clark, and out of nowhere a furniture crab scurries by, and it makes Pirate Clark angry, and then Pirate Clark like stabs it or hits it or stomps it or something, and that's why it starts bleeding, and that's why we get Clark saying "Tables don't bleed." But all that stuff out of the way, I just wanted to mention that little Easter egg to begin with. Now I want to discuss the biology of these creatures, what they look like, where you might find them, and all that kind of deeper lore that you probably clicked on the video for. Over on Reddit, after this audio released of Kane discussing the furniture crab entities, an amazing artwork of a diagram depicting a furniture crab by user Knoll04 gives us some insight about how these creatures might actually exist from a realistic standpoint. [music] Now, as we know, and if you've watched this channel for any length of time, you know that Backrooms creatures kind of have this really wide array of bio biology. Some of them are flesh and blood, others are more metaphysical, others are so enigmatic that the human mind can't comprehend them existing. Even in the Backrooms movie, the still lifes are stuffed with like goo fluff. That That's not real, but they're walking around, they're living, they're breathing. Pirate Clark, you know, he he bleeds and he's a flesh and blood creature, but he's also a Backrooms entity. And in the online Backrooms lore, there are tons of examples of creatures that don't obey physics, it doesn't make sense why they exist, they don't have blood, they don't have organs, but they still have sentience. And the furniture crabs are no exception. The basic idea is that furniture crabs have this outer exoskeleton of a table. They literally inhabit a table. They live inside of it. They were spawned in that way, created that way by the Backrooms. These next few paragraphs are directly from this graphic, this diagram about the furniture crabs, but I wanted to read them cuz it sounds really cool. It sounds like scientific and stuff, so I wanted to just rip it off of the page and let you exactly hear how it's supposed to sound. And maybe how the biology works of these furniture crab entities. The furniture crab is a novel species of common wood termite native to the complex. The termite takes the size, form, and internal shape of a common article of wooden furniture, utilizing the surrounding wooden structure as an exoskeleton. It does not appear that the termite ever burrows into the structure the way a standard termite would, rather the organism is generated by the complex already within its shell. Current hypotheses posit that these instances arise from lossy replication of termite infested furniture structures in real life. Legs of the article of furniture become inhabited by the legs of the termite. A gap in the exoskeleton allows for a crab-like motility, variation in width of which results in proportional variation in speed of the organisms. So far, secondary or distal joints have yet to be observed. Organism demonstrates animalistic behavior. Species have been observed utilizing sensory setae to navigate and familiarize itself with various routes within the complex. After which, it will engage in bouts of frantic random activity periods. Some instances have demonstrated semblances of intelligent thought, problem-solving, and logic in order to overcome obstacles. Though its movements are crab-like, it shows many behavioral similarities with the common house dog. It is currently unknown how the species metabolizes or reproduces, if at all. So, those few paragraphs right there were ripped directly from this graphic by user null4, and what they think the furniture crab's biology is. And I have to agree with it for the most part. I think it's pretty cool and a pretty neat idea that the backrooms spawns these things in. Like it is not like a termite that lives in a table that fell from reality. That's how they make it. That's how they think the the entity should be is a moving table. And I'll get into some theories in a second as to why I think that. But pretty much, if you didn't listen to any of the science stuff, this entity is a backrooms amalgamation. It's a creation of its own design. It doesn't exist anywhere else, and they scurry around, they move around kind of like dogs, they behave like them as well, and overall, they seem to be pretty chill. And I don't know why Pyro Clark hates them. That seems kind of cringe. Theories as to what these entities are actually meant to represent range widely. As we know, the Backrooms takes things from real life and kind of misremembers them as it recreates them inside of itself. Pirate Clark is what Clark was, but just anthropomorphized [music] into all his hatred. The rooms we see were rooms from the real life world, but just broken down and misremembered with incorrect facts, so on and so forth. So, what could these furniture crabs be of failed recreation of? What exists in our life that was misremembered enough to be made in the Backrooms? Some theories indicate that the furniture crabs are the Backrooms misremembering what dogs or cats or household pets are, because the Backrooms knows that those animals have four legs, but everything else is just random, is just blurry to the Backrooms, so it recreates things with four legs based off what other things it sees, like furniture. You know, dogs have four legs, they walk around, they're all happy, and that seems to be what these tables and and chairs and things do. I've seen other people kind of deduce that these entities mean a little bit more and have a deeper breadth of imagination. You know how in the Backrooms movie, Clark really hates the furniture that he's selling? Like he despises selling it, he hates it, it's terrible quality, it's horrible, he hates his job, he hates his life, he hates everything pretty much. But he specifically hates his furniture. Maybe because he hates his furniture so much, the Backrooms took those feelings of hatred towards the furniture and made them manifest into actual monsters or entities. I mean, it makes sense. You know, Pirate Clark's face is distorted, probably because Clark is looking through a glass bottle of liquor so much, and that's what his face looks like. So, the Backrooms is capable of of taking things from reality and recreating them in the Backrooms itself. We know this. It's not new information, but what if they took that thought of Clark's hatred for for own furniture and made those furniture pieces into monsters, because that's how much they thought they would scare Clark. You know, if he sees one bleed, it would scare him. So, maybe that's what the Backrooms thought it all meant. I sound really crazy talking about this, and I'm sorry, but it's a theory nonetheless. Now, as far as we know though, these things are docile. They don't attack, they don't hunt, they don't do anything like that. They act like dog or crab. You know, if you've been on a beach before, you've walked past a crab, it doesn't jump on you and like try to eat you or something. Just walks around and does its own little thing. Just like these little entities do. I think the funniest part of these creatures is the fact that they just move around for the fun of it. There's no actual reason. They get random bouts of inspiration and then movement, and they move around not not for anything else, but just to mess with Clark and anybody else that's there. And that's that leads to all the shifting maze-like construction of the Backrooms. We also hear in the movie that things look different when you turn around. Like, I'm pretty sure Clark is referring to something and he says like, "The rooms change when I'm not looking." Or something like that happens. That's probably because these little entities are just literally scurrying around. They're they're just doing a little devious lick on the people inside the complex just for the fun of it, and I really appreciate that for them. Now, in the movie we see a ton, and I mean like an actual ton, a metric ton of furniture in the Backrooms. We see couches, we see chairs, we see tables, we see a throne, we see tons of other stuff as well. And I want to actually ask the question to you, maybe these furniture crabs are not just in the table form. We heard them describe these tables, but if other pieces of furniture have four legs, like maybe a sofa or a stool or something along the lines of a throne, maybe they're all or most of them are furniture crab entities or some kind of sentient entity. But, if the only requirement for a furniture crab is to have like four legs, well, then stools and desks and chairs and ottomans and literally any other piece of furniture with four legs could be a furniture crab. You know, they're not called desk crabs, they're called furniture crabs, which to me indicates that a lot of these things we see in the movie are probably entities. Especially that one stool that Clark grabs and kind of runs back into reality with. What if that was a furniture crab? That'd be pretty funny. So, what does this all mean for the future of the Backrooms and the Backrooms series? Well, obviously, the furniture crabs were not included in the movie technically. They were written about on the mural with the tables don't bleed line, but I think Kane kind of cut them from it maybe for time, maybe for [music] realism, I don't know. But, I think they actually are really cool idea and they kind of flesh out how strange the Backrooms is and show us how it might misremember things. On top of this, we only know about this furniture crab entity existing in level zero. What about the Red City or the Pool Rooms or any other part of Kane Pixel's Backrooms complex? I'm sure there's other entities too that are not just furniture crabs. But, the fact that we have, you know, still lifes, we have pirate Clark, we have furniture crabs, this leads me to believe that Kane Pixels is open to the idea of multiple entities existing in his world [music] just in realistic ways like these entities right here in this video. But, I would be interested to see if maybe in the next [music] Backrooms movie, if we get a second one or maybe a full-length series, I would love to see what other kinds of things he creates for the other parts of his world. We've already seen the Red City, we've seen the Pool Rooms. I want to know what's in there as well. You know, this is pretty neat. Let's see what else we can do with it, you know. But, we're just going to have to wait and find out cuz I don't make the movie. I just sit here and talk about it. So, Kane Pixels, if you're listening, put me in the next movie, please. Please. So, that was my official explanation of the furniture crab entity. I really enjoyed this one. It's pretty much canonized. I mean, not technically, but it it might as well be. It's really cool. I like the fact that they're just like little dogs. They just run around and they also >> [music] >> mess with people's minds. It's really cool. I think people should do that more in real life. 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