Film Theory: Is This the NEXT Backrooms? (The Oldest View)

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Welcome back to The Backrooms! Wait, this isn’t The Backrooms? Oh it’s an abandoned mall… but, what is that rolling giant monster? No, it’s coming for us - run!

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*Credits:*
Writers: Matthew Patrick, Forrest Lee, and Mike Keenan (The Pokémon Biologist)
Editors: Dan "Cybert" Seibert, Alex "Sedge" Sedgwick, and Danial "BanditRants" Keristoufi
Sound Designer: Yosi Berman
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[AJGundam]

What I love about The Oldest View is that this mall has been demolished and exists no where but in Kanes renders.
In a Wendigoon video, he says a friend got him all the blueprints for it so this man literally REBUILT the mall in a digital space.

[nicheofnight]

I think one element that really lends credence to the idea of "accepting the impermanence" as a central theme for the oldest view is the fact that Wyatt is allowed to enter and then leave the mall once before it traps him inside. It's like whatever power created it allows visitors to enter once and experience something lost to us, but if they try to keep coming back, it will devour them. It works as a good metaphor for people being stuck in the past and in the way things were, and the consequences of being like them.

[InverseMoon]

I think it's important to note that while Wyatt was studying Botany, he mentions that he actually switched over to studying Business, which could be significant in explaining why the Rolling Giant targeted Wyatt. For instance, since Wyatt changed his major from Botany to Business, he made himself part of the world--the business word-- that would play a role in the desertion and destruction of the mall; Wyatt's fate may be a direct consequence of straying from studying Botany and switching interests to Business.

[FintanFire]

Finding out the mall being a real thing was the most unreal thing ever.

[Jonathan_Collins]

Gotta admit, seeing Kane Pixels explore the genre that he’s made so popular, it is so rad, and so cool.

[tommywang]

The scariest part of the giant is that it constantly feed you false information about itself so that it can create a false sense of security. It then breaks this sense of security violently, creating even more dread than it normally would. For example, it convinced our dude that it won't move at first, but then it did. Then, it convinced him it won't move on sight, then it did again. Then, it convinced him that there's no way it can go up an escalator, which it did yet again. At last, it convinced him that he's dealing with some kind of statues on wheels, but then it reveals that it can literally come off its base. Truly terrifying.

[shawnheatherly]

It's insane that Kane Pixels' version of a break is to just make another impressive series.

[lukestarkiller]

I seriously could’t tell if the place was actually real or not until all the trees appeared everywhere. It looks so unbelievable real. First he mastered the old camcorder look in the backrooms and now he’s mastered the modern phone camera look. This kid is ridiculously talented, I’m glad he’s getting his movie career started this early on, he’s going to be very successful no matter what he decides to do with his life

[jacoboniaplay]

So the mall is buried at the base of a tree. It's a grave. Wow. Cemeteries are places of great sadness, but they're also places where you honor the dead. Gives me chills. Hold on to what you can, but you have to let go of what you can't in a way that honors its memory.

[zeroxlulu]

It's honestly pretty crazy that my childhood mall is now apart of this big 'analog horror lore'. Glad I decided to document the mall 6 years ago on my channel before it was demolished, It really was a strange feeling walking through Valley View pretty much all to myself, very eerie yet nostalgic, I remember the day vividly.

[KHike]

I’m from Dallas, and I have to say- the way Kane depicted the Valley View Mall is *perfect*. I literally felt like I was there

[BeToTony]

What if the giant is actually trying to help? When the giant goes up the lift, one door opens, probably that was the exit all along! As said in the video, when all exits are inacessible, one should refer to Reverchon, the giant! If all exits are gone, refer to the giant! Wyatt asks "what do you want", but the giant can't speak, can't do hand gesture or whatever, the only thing he could do was to show those image more like a warning as "this is death, don't go this way or you will die", Wyatt doesn't understand and run, the giant gets frustrated and tries to stop Wyatt hitting the wall, but it only scares Wyatt even more and he ends up dead... at the end we see his body outside and the Giant is also monochromatic, looking at him, to me it feels like he is sad and disappointed for not being able to save Wyatt, maybe because he knows that place is evil, or maybe because he is nostalgic of people being there with him

[AidenThePony]

I wonder if the closet that MatPat sometimes records videos in is somehow connected to The Backrooms?

[Matrix]

Honestly this series is amazing it’s impressive how Kane found so many photos of the rolling giant despite how poorly documented it was

[Mr_Inspiration]

Speaking of impermanence. I think we can all agree that, with Matthew soon retiring, this analogy horror's true story & purpose hits more at home than it did before.

[TheKinginRed]

Id just like to point out that Wyatt actually escaped twice, but decided to go a third time and gets trapped, this man had 3 separate chances to leave the spooky hole alone and he couldn't.

[divine-s]

I’m super impressed with Kane Pixels. Each series he makes he’s never disappointed. His editing, voice acting, suspension, emotion, he all somehow perfects in. Massive respect for him.

[thenewsl]

I could totally envision these analog horror series being used to teach the future generations "Old Content" similar to the way we study "old literature" and Matpat's videos being used as we use the guide books and breakdowns of various famous historical pieces lol

[myeyesdontbreathe]

As a games designer, getting a theory on one of my projects is a massive thing on my bucket list. It really is a coveted honour to get a theory created about your work.

[hudsondraulans]

I didn't get goosebumps until you said the entire mall is CGI... that is so incredibly impressive.