2026-06-13
20 分钟All spring, our colleague Ben Fritz's 14-year-old son has been bugging him to see one particular movie.
My son knows that I sometimes can snag tickets to premieres or early screenings.
Ben covers the entertainment industry, and the movie in question was a horror film called Backrooms.
That's how I first learned this film existed,
which he started asking me if I could get him into the earliest possible screening, ideally into the premiere.
Backrooms started as an idea on the internet.
And along with millions of other teenagers, Ben's son had closely tracked Backroom's evolution online.
This wasn't just like, oh, this is a cool movie.
This is like, you know, a big screen expansion
of this whole mythology that has been really meaningful to him for several years.
Ben actually did get tickets to the premiere
and he was amazed by how much his son had to say about the film.
He was like, oh, well, you have to understand that in this scene, what this image represents is X,
and it's kind of similar to his videos, but it's different in this way.
So was he talking to you the entire time this thing was happening?
No.
He's, you know, we've raised him Los Angeles.
He knows you have to keep your mouth shut in a movie theater.
But afterwards, he could not keep his mouth shut.
He couldn't stop talking to me.