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Backrooms stuck with me more than I thought it would. Maybe it’s the fact that I forgot to take my meds two days in a row. Maybe it’s because I watched the movie at 10am on a Monday and then went to work right after. Or maybe it’s because I knew I had a looming 90 minute transit ride out to Burnaby after work to grab a package from the post office and then take another 90 minutes back home — in th

Welcome back to The Peliplat Dispatch! A newsletter rounding up all the recent highlights on Peliplat, brought to you by… Me! Alex, from the Peliplat HQ. Read all the previous issues of The Peliplat Dispatch here 🔦 new creator spotlight 🔦 Amongst all the challenges and events, it's easy to miss some diamonds in the rough. I highly recommend checking out these new writers. Give them a follow & re

Have you guys heard of these backrooms? The secret liminal spaces lurking on the other side of the ones we inhabit every single day? I look for them all the time now since watching Backrooms, a movie with a concept and flair so tantalising I think my brain is literally still stuck wandering its fluorescent hallways. Kind of like the characters in the movie, I stumbled upon the world of Backrooms b

Off Campus is unapologetically women-centered, and it is taking the world by storm. From millennials who grew up with rom-coms and boy-band fandoms to Gen Zs who are discovering 2000s aesthetics and falling in love with them, Off Campus is a common ground where women can finally indulge in love stories they have long waited to watch. Female audiences rarely have the chance to indulge in a show tha

When a friend of mine excitedly told me about Exit 8, I was hooked. A never-ending subway hallway filled with perilous tests? Narrative about daddy issues? Based on a video game? Okay, yeah, now we're talking. The trailer hinted at a bittersweet, underlying intergenerational trauma narrative manifested through horror, which fully sold me. I was ready for some Hereditary styled story-telling, mixed