RED ROOMS (2023)
Netflix and chill? Try True-Crime and Snuff. "We see you. And you are obscene." Damn. My roommate had already seen this one, and didn't consider it a horror film. But she's quite wrong about that, because RED ROOMS absolutely is a horror film. It's not a slasher. It's not supernatural. It's not even a Giallo. It's not horror by any standard of measurement that most people would use, but it's a horror film all the same. Deeply psychological, and deeply riveting, it's very rare that a horror film reaches out, grabs me, draws me in and holds me there the way RED ROOMS did. Sure, I wasn't frightened in the way that I was when I watched Steven Soderbergh's 2018 thriller UNSANE a few marathons back. No, that one managed to shake me because of the 1-2 punch of it's very immersive presentation, and the fact that I didn't realize that I had a fear of involuntary commitment until I watched it. I didn't realize that until I noticed...
