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

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

Kimberly Dawn Neumann is a New York City-based magazine and book writer whose work has appeared in a wide variety of publications, including Women’s Health, Health, Cosmopolitan, Fitness, Prevention, ...

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 ...

Ever been in an empty corridor which seems to stretch on forever, or found yourself in a deserted room that feels "off"? An upcoming film taps into "liminality", an important concept in architecture, ...

When you feel “in-between” an old version of yourself and who you’re becoming (or who you want to be), you may be experiencing a liminal space — a temporary psychological period of transition. Life is ...

Kane Parsons has brought liminal space horror to the forefront of culture with his hit film Backrooms. The A24 blockbuster has amassed over $200 million at the worldwide box office, making it the ...

Most Canadians have encountered a liminal space without even knowing it. Think empty airport lounges, hallways in windowless buildings, abandoned strip malls. Now filmmaker Kane Parsons‘s debut film, ...

The presence of liminal spaces can be quite haunting and scary. In simplest terms, the well-known and natural become alien in a way we cannot describe as we try to process their existence. Within ...

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 ...