What Happened
Juliette Gariépy’s Kelly-Anne is an uncomfortable mystery.
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| Image: Nemesis Films Productions It's rare for a movie to get technology right.
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- And it's even rarer for that movie to be a thriller or horror, where realism takes a backseat to scares and tension.
- Nothing takes me out of a film quicker than a tech MacGuffin that might as well be literal magic.
- Yes, the phrase "dark web" will always sound a bit silly, but at no point during its 118 minutes does the tech become a distraction.
- It's not the tech that makes Red Rooms great, though.
Background Context
Juliette Gariépy’s Kelly-Anne is an uncomfortable mystery. | Image: Nemesis Films Productions It's rare for a movie to get technology right. And it's even rarer for that movie to be a thriller or horror, where realism takes a backseat to scares and tension. But Red Rooms mostly gets it. Nothing takes me out of a film quicker than a tech MacGuffin that might as well be literal magic. Yes, the phrase "dark web" will always sound a bit silly, but at no point during its 118 minutes does the tech become a distraction. It's not the tech that makes Red Rooms great, though. It's just something that could have easily tanked an otherwise excellent movie. What carries the film is the expert tension bui
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Source: The Verge – Original Link
Source: The Verge
