Red Rooms (2017)

Red Room (2017) Directed by Stephen Gaffney, this Irish horror film is centered around the almost fictional world of abductions and online exploitation, deeply exploring human depravity. The movie unravels an intricate and disturbing web of deceit and violence awaiting.

🎥 Trailer Vibes

The trailer plunges the audience towards nightmare scenarios where young women like Kyra get abducted and put into a house. The captives are deeply mentally tortured all while being haunted by a gruesome end which heightens the dreadful atmosphere. Instead of music, the sound design creates a horrific world where everything is stripped away, and all that is left is the absolute raw visuals.

🌟 Cast Highlights

Amy Kelly as Kyra. She is one of the strong women put together who manages to spearhead the group and keeps her hope alive through sadistic capitvators.

Eddie Jackson as Matthew, one of the abductor’s kidnapees ensnared within a dark and twisted world who struggles and fights internally in order to build the resilience they need to face the horror.

📖 Synopsis

During a night out with friends, Kyra is kidnapped and wakes up in a remote house with a group of other young women that includes Alison. Their captors run an operation where they capture people, torture and murder them, and sell the recordings on the dark web to the highest bidder. As the women face increasingly sadistic violence, they will need to muster their fiercest strength and cunning to evade death’s grasp. The film examines the women’s struggle to escape, alongside the factors of survival, the exploitative elements of society, and the moral corruption that comes with anonymity online.

Kyra’s tale serves to illustrate Red Room’s brutal depiction of human cruelty and the frightening phenomena of cyber-exploitation, forcing the audience to face the harsh realities that lurk beneath the surface of the internet.