Red Rooms

This picture about people obsessed with criminals and their grisly crimes confronts us with the mystery of who the obsessives truly are.

I have to warn that you may need to be a little twisted to love this film... Definitely the most tense I've felt in a long time. I can't recommend it high enough.

The coolly controlled film unsettles with a kind of diseased psychological atmosphere -- hewing not from the mindset of the accused so much as the parasitical sickness that makes spectators obsess over his kind.

Plante’s unblinking screw-tightening builds to one of the most jaw-dropping scenes of this or any year.

Plante, who also wrote the script, seems concerned with the inherent misogyny of horror, and suspicious of films built around the prospect of simultaneously drooling at women and watching their demise.

Red Rooms is a gripping psychological horror, held together by Pascal Plante's strong direction and, most notably, Gariépy's standout performance.

Pascal Plante’s film is violent, sadistic, and gritty without showing a hint of violence. It leaves one feeling dirty, ashamed, and slightly baffled at the connivance in the heinous, internet-exploited crimes.

...designed to be a cult film, but in a way that invites you to think deeply about all its implications, its ideas, its decisions. [Full review in Spanish]

The oblique courtroom thriller offers chilling reflections on the rise of obsessive true crime fan culture.

Cuando empieza una película, generalmente sabes qué quiere conseguir su protagonista y qué se lo impide. En este caso no lo sabes y la tensión de esa incertidumbre es fascinante porque no sabes sabes exactamente qué hace ahí y por qué. Perturbadora.