Here on Bored Panda, we've had "blessed" memes, we've had "cursed" memes, but now, it's time for "blursed" memes, which are, you guessed it, both blessed and cursed at the same time. While the concept ...

A new study offers a glimpse into the evolutionary path toward human language—through laughter. In a new study, ape species more closely related to humans, such as chimpanzees, were able to laugh ...

Great apes may have been laughing with a similar rhythm to modern humans for at least 15 million years, a University of Warwick study reveals. The finding offers unexpected clues to how human speech ...

A24’s Backrooms has completely redefined the boundaries of modern horror. In just six days, the film grossed over $100 million domestically, becoming A24’s highest-grossing domestic release and ...

Perhaps you take an unfamiliar turn. Maybe you walk through a slightly crooked door. Or you simply just leaned against a wall and found yourself falling. It was innocuous enough, but the thing is, now ...

Mark Sammut serves as the primary list editor for GameRant's video game department and contributes to other sections like anime lists. In a previous life, he also wrote for TheGamer, other Valnet ...

Only Slate Plus members can gift Slate stories. Become a member to share 10 free articles a month. How does a teenager become the director of one of the year’s most anticipated auteur horror films?

It’s just an empty room — a literal blank space. Ok, well, there is that pile of furniture, arranged in a jumbled, haphazard way that suggests either a makeshift sanctuary or an arcane, sacred ritual.

Chiwetel Ejiofor and Renate Reinsve star in an unforgettable exploration of soulless cityscapes By David Sexton There’s a back story to Backrooms. Since 2011, a creepy photo has circulated on message ...

Hollywood's youngest filmmaker tells IndieWire about adapting an open-source creepypasta into one of the biggest movies of the summer. It’s hard to think of many people currently living a more ...

The Backrooms creepypasta itself originated from a 2019 thread on 4chan, where a photograph of a large, yellow-carpeted room prompted users to describe what it would feel like to be trapped inside it.