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It’s called Empire Records and now I want to rewatch it !

Hiding in the walk-in must hit different when you're cold-blooded, too.

Yeah. I saw that one too. Very interesting.

At a community theater I worked at in high school, we found an empty unused space you could get to by squeezing by an electics tower. Someone had brought in inflatable furniture and a beaded curtain. We called it the zen room and it was the best place ever.

I think Only Murders In The Building *almost* qualifies, with the caveat that, yeah, it’s about murder

I would watch a movie about two 7-11 slackers who steal so much that the manager is getting suspicious, so they fake a malicious klepto poltergeist as a cover story. Sure, fine, the real poltergeist shows up in the third act I guess, if we must.

Every time I go visit another library, I'm always like "Show me the basement and/or the attic" and you can always tell so much about a library, and sometimes a community, by what is in those spaces.

it was noisy behind the pinsetters at the bowling alley, but that meant the league bowlers couldn't hear the nasty things you were screaming about them

That’s an extremely good description of what I love about some fantasy movies when spaces are a bit off but it’s a good off

What? No, I am not crying. I'm just going down the stairs normally. (Crying is for the bathroom.)

It sounds to me like you've never hyperfocused on stairwell piping brackets to shut out the world. To me.

This happened to me today and the person who was coming down the stairs as I made a quick exit was smiling. They knew

Just chilling in the airport drinking coffee at 8pm and clicky-clacking your little laptop

Sounds like you have a pitch for Clerks 3!

I was working as a contractor at a large UK mobile company, and I used to go and sit in the stairwell of the emergency escape stairs just for a break.

That would be a nice video game. Wander around and try working at odd job.

Nobody makes movies about the 99% of hallways that don't house an entity.

Scott Pilgrim?

I found an empty hallway in college complete with a storage closet that locked from the inside and I took naps in it between classes

Bad Times at the El Royale

That's right

Yes! Instantly thought of movie Go! (Think one of my all time fave movies!) I'm sure they spend a lot of time in places like that!

Really interesting.

Back at university we used to hang out in this book-lined room on a seemingly-abandoned floor of our building The coffee machine there not only worked, but was better than the one downstairs!

Spinal Tap, to their eternal credit, gave good liminal space.

*... and they said that it was septic shock. No one ever explained to me ..." <stoned, incapable of speaking, barely sensate, nodding and pursing lips> "... but it punctured my liver, which can regenerate ..." "Heh. They called it the liver because it makes you live. Heh."

AGREE a completely unhaunted vibe

Nino Cipri has a couple of novellas about the liminal spaces in/connected to a certain Swedish furniture store

Clerks 3?

The Safe Spaces /pos

Bob's Burgers covered this

I could do a full 90 minutes on the little cupboard space I used to nap in when I worked at Wimbledon.

goin into the backrooms to fight my coworkers

They dont want to tip off the store owner

Or you can go up on the roof and play hockey.

You can sell drugs in liminal spaces. That's where I get all my drugs

There aren't a lot of places you can be peacefully alone on a nuclear submarine but the various mezzanines in the engine room were usually chill places to sit with my notes and/or tech manuals.

my first shift as a dishwasher, I got caught soloing a joint out back

Yeah I'd go in there to smoke

Back porch with a minifridge with a de-filtered Brita that never seems to run out of sangria as long as nobody invites the shitty couple from next door to hang

I want one about showing up just after dawn to your bullshit facilities job with a checked out supervisor where you spend two hours drinking 711 coffee out of a stupid big thermos and loading up the work truck while sunbeams filter through the tress and pierce the steaming dew rising off the grass

This is one thing the movie Waiting really nailed. The smoke break scenes were like a memory pulled from my brain.

I’m not even supposed to be here today!

But SRSLY what are those doors