Red Rooms ending explained: What was Kelly-Anne’s motive?

Red Rooms ending explained: What was Kelly-Anne's motive?

As a seasoned fan of psychological thrillers and someone who’s spent more time than I care to admit delving into the dark corners of the internet, “Red Rooms” truly left me shaken. The film masterfully dissects the unsettling world of our true crime community, shedding light on its exploitative tendencies in a way that few films have dared to do before.

In 2023, the chilling Canadian psychological thriller, previously only seen in cinemas, titled “Red Rooms”, has been made accessible for home viewing on platforms such as Apple TV by various digital retailers.

The chilling film follows a woman named Kelly-Anne (Juliette Gariépy), an obsessive voyeur following the high-profile serial killing trial of a man named Ludovic Chevalier (Maxwell McCabe-Lokos). Chevalier is accused of killing three little girls and, worse than that, torturing them beforehand and creating snuff films to sell on the dark web. Kelly-Anne seemingly becomes determined to hunt down footage from within these “red rooms,” though the reasoning behind her thought process is mostly left vague.

Major spoilers ahead for Red Rooms

Essentially, “Red Rooms” is a tense and problematic thriller delving into the darker aspects of true crime enthusiasts and their exploitative nature within the community. It aims to explore the mentality of serial killer fanatics, focusing on those who claim intimate knowledge of these killers, a level of understanding that supposedly surpasses everyone else. In this movie, Clementine (played by Laurie Babin) plays a significant role in portraying this perspective.

Red Rooms ending explained: What was Kelly-Anne's motive?

Why did Kelly-Anne hunt down the missing third tape?

In Red Rooms, Kelly-Anne is portrayed as performing questionable and deceitful actions. Using her tech skills, she scours the internet and dark web in an effort to find the third and concluding video tape. This particular tape features the distressing events that befell a girl named Camille, who was the third victim. The other two tapes had already been found, with one leading to Chevalier’s apprehension.

However, what’s particularly troubling is that Kelly-Anne has already viewed the other two videos and appears unaffected by the distressing scenes of young girls being abused. This indifference becomes more questionable when she later bids on the third tape in a chilling online auction, using Bitcoin. As the film reaches its conclusion, it’s difficult not to scrutinize her intentions. In an unsettling turn of events, she leaves a flash drive with the video for Camille’s mother, after secretly entering their home in the dead of night and leaving it on the bedside table.

Though imprisoning Chevalier is certainly an achievement for Kelly-Anne, there’s a feeling that her actions might not be purely selfless. Instead, it appears she derives some form of satisfaction or thrill from outsmarting the prosecution and pushing boundaries. The disturbing acts of stalking Camille and repeatedly viewing the tapes are troubling on their own, but the fact that she watched them multiple times adds to the unsettling nature of her behavior.

In this pivotal moment, Kelly-Anne playing the tapes for Clementine clearly emphasizes the gravity of the situation to the viewers. The tapes are so unsettling that they cause a significant emotional reaction in Clementine, making her question Chevalier’s innocence and ultimately abandoning her belief in his trial. This is substantiated later when we see Clementine in an interview admitting that she had been one of Chevalier’s admirers, but now acknowledges that there was a darker side to him that she initially overlooked.

Red Rooms ending explained: What was Kelly-Anne's motive?

What happens to Kelly-Anne?

As a gamer peering into this digital world, I can’t help but wonder about her fate. Having handed over the tape to Camille’s mom, I kept up with snippets of news, but there’s an unsettling possibility that she was apprehended later on.

Following extensive periods on the dark web and a controversial court appearance disguised as one of the victims, Kelly-Anne’s actions have left a questionable imprint, potentially attracting scrutiny from federal agencies like the FBI or local law enforcement. Her state of mind becomes increasingly apprehensive, leading her to distrust and discard her AI systems and cover her cameras with tape. It remains unclear where she will surface next, but it seems likely that Kelly-Anne intends to lay low and avoid detection by going off the grid.

2024-10-04 19:25