Red Rooms (18)

★★★ Juliette Gariépy’s disquieting performance as a fashion model fixated on a serial-killer overcomes the more unbelievable elements of this unsettling dark-web horror tale of snuff-movie murder rooms. ~ The Guardian.

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Pascal Plante's Canadian French Psychological thriller, "Les chambres rouges".

Kelly-Anne (Juliette Gariépy) wakes up every morning by the courthouse to secure a seat at the high-profile trial of Ludovic Chevalier (Maxwell McCabe- Lokos), a serial killer she is obsessed with.

As days go by, the young woman bonds with another groupie (Laurie Babin), which momentarily breaks her out of her loneliness.

But as the proceedings drag on and she spends more time in the courtroom with the victims’ families, Kelly-Anne finds it increasingly difficult to maintain her psychological balance and assume her morbid fixation with the killer.

She will then do whatever it takes to get her hands on the final piece of the puzzle: the missing video of a murdered 13-year-old girl, to whom Kelly-Anne bears a disturbing resemblance.

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A serial killer horror for the digital age, this disturbing but effective drama from the Canadian film-maker Pascale Plante features a numbed-out heroine in search of a murderer. ~ The Times.