Backroom Facials - 13 - Faith Lou Finds Faith <2026 Release>

By: The Lifestyle Liminal Team Entertainment | Self-Discovery | Digital Culture

If you’ve spent any time scrolling through analog horror or liminal space theory, you know the Backrooms are usually a bad place. It’s yellow wallpaper, buzzing fluorescents, and the constant dread of running into something that used to be human.

But every so often, a story comes along that flips the script. Enter: Backrooms - 13 - Faith Lou Finds Faith. Backroom Facials - 13 - Faith Lou Finds Faith

This latest viral short (clocking in at just under 14 minutes) isn’t about surviving the monsters. It’s about outgrowing them.

Faith Lou, a burned-out "manifestation coach" from Los Angeles, accidentally no-clips through the floor of a shuttered mall’s food court. Standard Backrooms entry. But instead of the usual Level 0 monotony, she lands on Level 13—known in deep lore as The Unfinished Symphony. “I was working three jobs

Here, the walls are made of velvet theater curtains. The floor is a chessboard of marble and moss. And the "Entities"? They aren't predators. They are echoes. Ghosts of past dreamers who forgot why they started walking.

The woman behind the character is a former theater student from Ohio named Louisa "Lou" Fernandez. In a rare interview with Lifestyle & Entertainment Weekly, she revealed that the series was born from a period of intense burnout. Fernandez writes, directs, edits, and stars in the

“I was working three jobs. I felt like I was no-clipping every single day—walking through life without feeling present. The Backrooms became a metaphor. I wanted to make something where the horror wasn’t the monster. The horror was losing yourself. And the solution? Finding a tiny routine that matters.”

Fernandez writes, directs, edits, and stars in the entire series for a budget of under $500 per episode. The “Faith Lou Finds Faith” episode was shot in her grandmother’s unused storage unit and a decommissioned community college library. Since its release, she has signed a development deal with A24 for a feature-length adaptation, described as “Eraserhead meets Eat, Pray, Love.”