Empty swimming pools. Deserted airport terminals. Stairwells that seem to go on longer than they should. School hallways in ...

Liminal space horror is all about feeling unease, like walking down a fluorescent-lit hallway after midnight or standing alone in an empty playground. Horror games have long understood the power of ...

Let’s say it’s been a few decades since you last visited your elementary school, and now it’s completely abandoned. There’s a strong chance that if you wandered the school’s empty hallways, you’d find ...

Psychologists explain why empty malls, abandoned hallways, and the new film "Backrooms" tap into something deeply unsettling.

The word liminal comes from the Latin limen, meaning "threshold"—and that's exactly what these places are. Empty hallways, quiet airports, abandoned malls, long stretches of road at dusk: spaces ...

Backrooms, indie film company A24’s latest horror release, has been setting all kinds of records this week. Its US$118 million at the worldwide box office on its opening weekend saw it become A24’s ...

Source: William McDonald / Pixabay With growing anticipation for the A24 film debut of Backrooms, liminal spaces have become a viral symbol of psychological horror. These spaces unsettle us because ...