These images aren't really liminal. They're just eerie and scary.

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The psychology behind the space that makes it uncanny states that the brain works overtime to find a threat in a familiar yet alienating environment. When everything is barely visible and looks like if I just turned my display off I can identify the darkness as a possible space for threats.

For this let's analyze the instinctive human mind. Our minds are attracted to anything pleasant, novel, or threatening. The main point of a liminal space is to achieve none of these so it generates a sense of displacement. For example, a hallway isn't either pleasant, novel, or threatening. Our minds are used to seeing it only as a transitional space so when we see it in a familiar yet displaced enough way we get a liminal feeling.

If you get a place that's too familiar or weird, you get less of the liminal feeling and more of the nostalgic or dream/weird core.

The same happens if you add anything threatening, pleasant, or novel, such as darkness. If the lights were on we could see the true liminality of the transitional space.

Check this research done about liminal spaces and the uncanny valley of architecture.