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Poll Suggestion: Liminal Spaces

"In Internet aesthetics, liminal spaces are empty or abandoned places that appear eerie, forlorn, and often surreal. Liminal spaces are commonly places of transition, [of] the concept of liminality.Research from the Journal of Environmental Psychology has indicated that liminal spaces may appear eerie or strange because they fall into an uncanny valley of architecture and physical places."*

Which of the following films, video games, TV series, and short films where liminal spaces are heavily featured would you dare visit and explore at your own peril?

LIST: https://www.imdb.com/list/ls4174466570

LIST (copy): https://www.imdb.com/list/ls4174466570/copy

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*Source: Wikipedia

NOT READY. I'm still awaiting for IMDb to approve my uploaded poster image for publication. I'm hoping this to be held off until May 29th or later when Backrooms is theatrically released.

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Some of the descriptions made me think of the Overlook Hotel. I see that the Wikipedia article also mentions The Shining alongside Twin Peaks and Severance.

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Can you target more specific episodes to either Twin Peaks or Severance? I saw that The Shining was listed on an MSN article about stories involving liminal spaces and I kind of wanted to keep this juggernaut out of the mix.

That being said, I will add it as well as convert the short documentary/video essay on the subject, The Art of Liminal Spaces (which I'm certain features the Overlook) into a second Betty White option*.

*I'm a coward and risk-adverse. You couldn't pay me enough to explore these very creepy, very dangerous spaces.

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Two (1961) The Twilight Zone

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0734686/reference/

In a futuristic world a man and a woman,

from opposing sides in a devastating war, meet in a deserted city.

Elizabeth Montgomery : The Woman

Charles Bronson:            The Man

Photo

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0734686/mediaviewer/rm3166017537/

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@ACT_1​ I'll combine it with the other Twilight Zone episode.

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@Tsarstepan​,

While "Two" gave us an Adam and Eve who survived the end of a world, "Probe 7, Over and Out" (Season 5, Episode 9) gives us an Adam and Eve who are arriving at the beginning of a new one.

Richard Basehart stars as Colonel Adam Cook, an astronaut whose spaceship crashes on a remote, primitive planet. While stranded, he receives word from his home planet that a devastating nuclear war has completely destroyed his civilization. He is officially the last man alive.

As he struggles with total isolation on this wild, unfamiliar planet, he discovers another survivor who crashed there from a different world—a woman named Norda (played by Antoinette Bower). By the end of the episode, as they agree to start a new life together, Adam accidentally mispronounces her name as "Eve," and it is revealed that the primitive planet they are on is actually Earth.

The Liminal Connection

Like the other episodes, this one relies heavily on an eerie, isolated setting. Instead of an empty town, the liminal space here is the untamed, silent wilderness of a prehistoric Earth. It represents the ultimate transitional void—the literal threshold between the death of an interstellar spacefaring era and the dawn of human history.

 

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