A24 and Joya Bottle the ‘Backrooms’ Liminal-Space Dread Into a Handmade Candle
Rather than a straightforward branded candle, the release leans on the source material’s most recognizable trait, its atmosphere, pouring that unease into wax and printed glass. To understand why a candle makes sense here, it helps to know what the Backrooms actually is. The concept began as an internet phenomenon rooted in liminal spaces, the empty, uncanny environments (endless office carpets, buzzing fluorescent lights, and damp yellow wallpaper) that feel disturbingly familiar and wrong at once.
- ▪Rather than a straightforward branded candle, the release leans on the source material’s most recognizable trait, its atmosphere, pouring that unease into wax and printed glass.
- ▪To understand why a candle makes sense here, it helps to know what the Backrooms actually is.
- ▪The concept began as an internet phenomenon rooted in liminal spaces, the empty, uncanny environments (endless office carpets, buzzing fluorescent lights, and damp yellow wallpaper) that feel disturbingly familiar and wrong at once.
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1 of 3 A24 2 of 3 A24 3 of 3 A24 Entertainment 34 Mins ago 9 Views 0 CommentsComments Save Summary A24 has partnered with New York candle studio Joya to turn the Backrooms into a home-goods object built around its eerie visual identity The yellow soy wax candle sits in a glass vessel printed with the property's signature damp wallpaper motif A conceptual scent maps the Backrooms atmosphere through notes like metallic hiss, ash, humidity, and signal deformation A24 is extending the Backrooms into your living room with the Joya x Backrooms Candle, a handmade collaboration that translates the horror property’s clammy, fluorescent-lit dread into a scented object.
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