One of the most talked about horror films of 2024 is making its streaming debut. Red Rooms is everything you’ve heard and more – especially when watching at home.
Red Rooms the fourth feature film from writer/director Pascal Plante is the kind of film that many filmmakers spend their entire careers chasing. Visually astute, tauntly written, superbly acted, and utterly terrifying. In a year of uncommonly unique horror films, Red Rooms stands head and shoulders above even the very best.
Its main character Kelly-Anne (Juliette Gariépy) is not made into some sort of avenging angel but a person whose obsessions are on the darker side. Her strictly constructed world once touched by her obsession with Ludovic Chevalier (Maxwell McCabe-Lokos) – on trial for the mutilation of three teenage girls – begins to crack. From beginning a friendship with Clémentine (Laurie Babin) who is in Montreal to support Chevalier, Kelly-Anne begins to make compromises within her world. Those compromises push her to the breaking point. A breaking point that takes her and her skill sets to the darkest parts of the internet and humanity to seek justice.
A dark tale of society’s fascination with serial killers that never hits a false note. From its opening bravado 20-minute courtroom set single take to its final post-modern moments, Plante is in complete control of his film. Red Rooms is an exercise in dread that shows no onscreen violence but manages the impossible task of being absolutely terrifying. One that will affect viewers long after the final credits.
Red Rooms is the perfect horror film for our modern times and obsessions. One that audiences will be talking about for years and even decades to come.