A serial killer obsession spirals into psychological horror in writer/director Pascal Plante’s Red Rooms, and a new trailer inmtroduces the critically acclaimed feature’s blend of true crime and horror thrills.
Utopia releases Red Rooms on September 6 at the IFC Center in New York with Plante in attendance for opening weekend and a national rollout to follow.
The psychological cyber thriller follows “Kelly-Anne (Juliette Gariépy), a young woman who wakes up every morning to wait outside the courtroom to secure a seat at the high-profile trial of Ludovic Chevalier, a man charged with the murder of three teenage girls, with the gruesome videos of two of the crimes surfacing for sale online on the dark web. She finds herself bonding with a fellow voyeur, momentarily breaking her out of her loneliness, while also witnessing the emotional decline of the victims’ families. As the proceedings continue, it becomes increasingly difficult for Kelly-Anne to maintain the psychological and physical balance between her normal life and her morbid fixation with the accused killer, with her obsession reaching new lengths when the final piece of evidence reveals itself within reach. ”
Per the press release, the film is “named after the highly disputed violent dark web spaces known as red rooms in online urban legends, RED ROOMS was inspired by the fans who inexplicably flock to serial killers throughout modern history and further motivated by the current state of cybersecurity and tech crimes. The film not only succeeds as one of the most chilling entries to the serial killer genre from the last decade —despite never revealing any of the explicit images that the film’s characters are forced to witness— with Plante creating a fictional killer that is a devastating product of our time, but excels as a cinematic portrayal of how modern civilization engages with technology while holding a mirror up to the loneliness and isolation that exists within the dark side of present-day society.”
Red Rooms is produced by Dominique Dussault for Nemesis Films. Cinematographer Vincent Biron (The Twentieth Century) lensed the feature, Laura Nhem (The Twentieth Century) was production designer, and Jonah Malak edited.
Watch the trailer below.