‘Red Rooms’ Review: A True Crime Gawker Slips Into Obsession During a Grisly Murder Trial
variety.comDennis Harvey Film Critic There is a quease factor to the popular fascination with serial killers that goes well beyond morbid curiosity about the crimes themselves — specifically, those who can’t get enough of such subject matter.
How many dramatic depictions do we need of, say, Jeffrey Dahmer or Ted Bundy? Surely no new insights can truly be gleaned. After a point, it becomes a sheer, ghoulish fixation on real-life torture, rape and murder.
It’s grotesque that such high-profile monsters become their own sort of entertainment franchise in a way, forever drawing fresh exploitation for a sizable, insatiable audience.
Facing down that phenomenon in a disturbingly direct — if fictive — manner is the French-language “Red Rooms,” which Utopia opens in limited U.S.
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