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Alone Time [Litterbox Comics] (europe.pub)

submitted 2 days ago* by cannedtuna@lemmy.world [M] to c/comicstrips@lemmy.world

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Litterbox Comics | Bluesky

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You gotta be careful what you wish for during spooky month!

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A comic in 2 panels

Panel 1: Mom grimaces, her eyes wide and fully over it holding her head while her two kids argue and scream over her.

Mom thinks “I just need 5 minutes alone time!”

Panel 2: Mom sits relaxing in peaceful bliss, completely alone in a yellow walled, yellow carpeted, yellow ceiling, liminal office space, with only the electric buzz of fluorescent lighting overhead for company. Yes, completely, and totally, alone…

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[–] eddanja@lemmy.world -1 points 2 days ago (5 children)

Stawp. I will never get that time back. What a letdown.

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[–] whoisearth@lemmy.ca 7 points 1 day ago

And I was pleasantly surprised. I'm casually aware of online trends. I like a good SCP and enjoy horror. I was aware of backrooms through my kids.

I'm amazed a 21 year old made a movie on a YouTube horror meme and got a bankable star for said movie and the movie is not bad.

I can't tell you the last time I left a movie disturbed. It definitely didn't scare me but the story was disturbing and I quite enjoyed the ending. It implied she never actually left the backrooms, none of them have.

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[–] SomethingBurger@jlai.lu 1 point 2 days ago (3 children)

This movie was so disappointing. No exploration of the backrooms whatsoever, and a rushed ending.

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[–] nightlily@leminal.space 6 points 1 day ago (1 child)

First half was great and then it fell for the modern media trap of spelling everything out because you can’t trust media literacy anymore, on top of getting just plain goofy.

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[–] eddanja@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

Basically, this. I was really engaged for the first half. Seemed like a mystery, thriller and horror all in one with a monster on the loose. When it started to turn psychological, it just got confusing.

I would have preferred there to be a wendigo or something much more sinister.

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[–] DagwoodIII@piefed.social 2 points 1 day ago

I never heard of 'the backrooms' before I saw the movie. I thought it was really scary and have been recommending it to everyone.

I reminds me of two other movies that I hated. League of Extraordinary Gentlemen and The Rocketeer were horrible adaptations, but people who hadn't read the original comics thought they were great.

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