I'll just say it. How the fuck did Red Rooms (2023) get past me without ever hearing anything about it? It's an amazing film. Yes it's in French and I know lots of people don't like reading their movies ("If I wanted to read, I'd finish elememtary school!"). I mean it's not even a real French film, this film is from Quebec Canada. That's like 1/3rd American these days right? Hell, I'm dyslexic and I loved it so I think you can manage a watch. Okay, enough hating on people that hate foreign films. They suffer their own existence. Also, I am half Quebecois so back off Canadians.
Last night I was deep into a Reddit thread about serial killer movies and happened upon a film titled Red Rooms (2003). Between the hundreds of posts talking about video store staples like Texas Chainsaw, Deranged, and Ed Gein I saw someone post about a serial killer movie that is actually about the people who are infatuated with serial killers and how completely icky that made them feel. Red Rooms (2023) directed by Pascal Plante and it is so good it totally killed me dead.
A computer savy model, played fucking fantastically by Juliette Gariépy becomes obsessed with the murder trial of a serial killer who tortured, mutilated and killed three teenage girls. She attends the trial, makes friends with a serial killer groupie played wonderfully by Laurie Babin, and slowly loses her grip on keeping her shit together. The dark web is an ugly nasty place and maybe she's at home there. I'm not sure. This film still has be thinking about it and if you love nice tidy endings then this is probably not your movie.
Also, if you want to be paranoid about your cyber security and how your tech is easily be corrupted then you should give it a watch. I changed all my passwords after watching. Two step verification, yes ma'am. Covering my cameras and microphones, thinking about it. And fuck, anyone need a gently used Alexa dot? Probably still not enough...
CaC Score: Red Rooms (2003) 9 out of 10 Dark Web Chat Rooms
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