Red Rooms (2023) poster
2023 · thriller · crime · slasher · robot

Red Rooms

Directed by Pascal Plante1h 58m2023
ElsewhereIMDb7.120kRT96%Metacritic80
  • heavy
  • brisk
  • extreme
  • bleak
  • cold
  • twisty
Movie DNA

Heavy, kinetic, extreme thriller / crime, inventive in texture. Nihilistic, mid-stakes, cold, hand-scored across twelve axes of taste.

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The high-profile case of serial killer Ludovic Chevalier has just gone to trial, and Kelly-Anne is obsessed. When reality blurs with her morbid fantasies, she goes down a dark path to seek the final piece of the case’s puzzle.

Our read · Red Rooms (2023) reads as a heavy, kinetic, inventive thriller · crime · slasher entry — extreme in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic in outlook. Hand-scored on twelve axes of taste — mood, pacing, weirdness, hope, stakes, humour, reality, density, warmth, auteur, intensity, and era — with a derived palette drawn from its dominant cinematography.

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You want icy true-crime obsession, moral unease, and a patient psychological thriller.

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Date nightWith friendsSoloWith parentsKids around
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DNA · twelve axes

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Each axis is hand-scored — not derived from votes or genre averages. The marker shows where this film sits; the gradient fill uses the film's own cinematography palette.

Mood · HeavyCosy
Pacing · Slow-burnKinetic
Intensity · GentleExtreme
Weirdness · ConventionalSurreal
Hope · NihilisticRedemptive
Stakes · IntimateEpic
Humour · NoneBroad
Reality · GroundedFantastical
Density · SparseTwisty
Warmth · ColdTender
Auteur · TransparentSignature
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