The dark web has been a God send if not a God forsaken place for modern horror films and Red Rooms takes an all too believable approach with its court case based drama that sees a slightly unhinged model Kelly Anne ( Julieitte Gariepy) obsessed with a Montreal court case against Ludovic Chavakier (Maxwell McCabe-Lokos) facing prosecution for the murder of three teenage girls he live streamed on the dark web of which recordings of two were found. It’s a grim premise and Chevalier dubbed ‘the Demon of Rosement’ sits there wholly impassive at the accusations are presented to the jury.
Director Pascal Plante sets up a compelling one shot that tracks around the court room as prosecutors and defence present their equally compelling cases which are disturbingly awful and warn the jury that the two videos will be shown as part of the prosecutions case. It’s a reminder and throwback to the Moors Murders where the audio recordings they Brady & Hindley made of their victims were played to court bringing hardened detectives to tears. It’s a small mercy that Chevalier’s films are never seen here yet almost as awful is the audio tracks fleetingly heard as the defendant allegedly sets about his victims.
Quite why anyone would willingly sit in a court room to watch the case is unfathomable and the mother of one of the victims berates those who do so when interviewed by the awaiting media outside the courthouse. But Kelly Anne goes as far to even sleep in streets outside the court room in order to ensure a seat inside the court room and is befriended by Clementine (Laurie Babin) something of a serial killer groupie sure of Chevalier’s innocence loudly and proudly leaping to his defence. The role of a coolly indifferent serial killer and his devout groupie would have been ideal casting for covid incompetent Boris Johnson and fan girl Nadine Dorries. But Kelly Anne is blank faced, ideal for projecting emotions on to and ideally suited for modelling and yet her ghoulish interest in the case and where the films steers us sees her losing work and dropped by her agency.
Red Rooms is one of those rare films: part horror, part thriller that keeps you engaged right up until the end leaving audiences pondering over what they have just witnessed and making this essential genre viewing.
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