Thank you for inadvertently personalizing the experience of our entire audience, at perhaps the best possible moment in the film to pull it off. The noble sacrifice of your dignity—and presumably many future nights laying awake about it—was worth the cost of admission all on its own. Your flatulence single-handedly elevated the cinema of over a hundred individuals, and I hope that you can look back on your mishap with a smile someday soon. However, I'm getting ahead of myself. Let's set the scene for my dear readers!
The Backrooms is a slow building psychological horror, and by this part in the film, tensions are beginning to rise for our characters. We're met with the aftermath of a nightmare, and a shaken person moving quietly down a dark hallway. Our audience is quiet, suspense is high, and the mood is merely bracing for what's next. Enter our gaseous compatriot, who was likely under the assumption they could let out a tapered fart without disturbing anyone. Alas, perhaps at the quietest and darkest the theater has been, their cheeks ripple through the room—cutting the cheese and tension simultaneously.
I can only imagine the face you must've had when someone damn near the opposite end of the room belted out “dude, someone just farted,” and having the entire room fall to hysterics for what felt like nearly a minute. Then, as the laughing grew choked and began to wane, the audience decided to break out into applause for the deed. I'm not sure who it was that started it, but it was devilishly funny; so funny that it spread like wildfire—it was an ovation! I can earnestly say that this was both louder and longer than the applause at the credits of the movie. I was holding back tears of laughter while clapping along.
Then, as we all finally settle back to Earth—and realize there's a movie we kind of wanted to watch—we get one more cherry on top of the whole ordeal. From the same corner the fart came from, someone lets out a hushed “aw dude, it stinks.” I hope you could still view the film from however far back you must've sunk into your chair, after dealing with all of that. Take pride in your contribution to the score of The Backrooms. Frankly, I think you deserve an entry in the credits for your performance; your timing and audio production were top-notch.
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