Backrooms

Get you a therapist who just tells you everything is your fault
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"I don't believe in going deep into your inner self...if you go deep into it, you find deep shit" -- Zizek

Are the backrooms where you go "deep into your inner self"? And the "deep shit" is the horror imagery in the backrooms? Perhaps.
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Starting to feel like the "therapy scene in a film to suggest the film seriously talks about psychology and then enables the viewer to project onto the patient and receive proxy-therapy" trope is running its course.

I also just don't know whether it is ethically responsible for therapy scenes such as the ones in this to be disseminated among the public. If we take seriously the psychoanalytic understanding of cinematic identification extrapolated by Laura Mulvey, that the viewer of a film projects and substitutes themselves in for characters on the screen (like how, say, a child watches Spider-Man and then pretends to be Spider-Man), then what happens when the viewer identifies with a character that is receiving talk therapy? Might the viewer also feel as if they are receiving therapy? If so, what are the consequences for the viewer when the on-screen therapy is performed irresponsibly or dramatically manipulated for aesthetic effect and spectacle?

Of course, it is difficult to prove a clean, direct causal effect that images on a screen have on a viewer's psychology. But assuming that cinema has some ability to shape the audience's consciousness (*1), then talk therapy scenes could have the ability to shape the viewer's understanding of how power is negotiated and structured in therapeutic settings, what "healing" might sound like, what it might mean to "work through your problems", and those are especially important for a mass-marketed film such as this where the audience may not be completely familiar with the therapeutic setting. If that is true, then the therapy scene holds a lot of power and, if a film borrows this trope, I think it should acknowledge the serious psychological weight it could carry.

Maybe we should be a bit more critical of the role and purpose a therapy scene may play in a film, and stay honest about whether a film takes the psychological weight of those scenes seriously. In this film, I am a bit skeptical that it understands that.

(*1) After all, the pre-movie AMC video they play before every film did say something along the lines of "get ready to escape", suggesting that even AMC and theaters acknowledge the psychological power of film in that it can enable the viewer to "escape"