Thursday, February 26, 2026

Movie Hype: Backrooms & instax mini Evo Cinema

Ohhh, we're excited for this one; Backrooms released a teaser trailer and it's a mindf*ck. Based on a series of random internet videos and lore  from the net comes a new creepy horror movie.

From different stuff we've been reading online, you can best think of the Backrooms as a place making bad copies of itself. As you see in the trailer, the copies get worse and worse of the same room like a fading memory. 

Apparently the trailer is all CGI too. 

Going off of more modern days fears, you sort of enter the Backrooms like clipping through reality like in a video game.

The below graphic best explains it as another A24 release. 

  


Jeez, we utterly hate the name, but love the camera or as it's awfully called the instax mini Evo Cinema. Fujufilm marketing department you nailed it...into the ground. We hate you on par with StudioCanal's handling of the Fackham Hall movie. Jesus, guys, who thought that was a good name? It flows like a turd clinging to a bowl.

Anyway, name forgotten, this is the coolest camera ever because of the "Gen Dial" or "Jidai Dial" on the Japanese one. It's a literal dial that changes how your photo looks like from every decade starting in the 1930's till now. So you can shoot it like the camera is from the 1950's or the 1990's and all the other decades within that time-frame.

See, in Japan they have a Jidai festival and at it have plays from different eras and a large historical reenactment parade so they named it after that. Here, in English speaking countries they went with Gen, not Decade Dial or something more clever related to a time travel movie. 

Same thing with the camera, like a Jules Verne camera or clock camera. Instax mini Evo Cinema is not gonna be a common term, ughhh.

It also prints out tiny photos and you can choose if you want to put a QR code on them so people can download the photo or clip. I mean, it's just perfect for parties or any occasion.

Do we wish the name wasn't pure Engrish garbage or the camera came in some other colors than black? Oh, yeah.

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