'Red Room' DVD: Captured Girls Get Their Irish Up

The Breaking Glass Pictures DVD release of the 2017 Irish horror movie "Red Room" shows that former films about imprisoning 20-something women have barely broken the surface regarding the potential for the depth of depravity regarding this sub-genre. The essential theme is that the lasses who are guests of the state of terror stay chained up and brutalized as they await their close-up in the titular chamber. 

The accolades for this creative success include Best Independent Feature Film and Special Jury Prize honors at the 2017 Underground Cinema Film Festival Awards. 

"Room" centers around a single mother who pays a heavy price for a rare indulgence of her girls just wanna have fun side. This also relates to her learning that Mother does not always know best in that our future web star allows Gran to convince her to spend an evening at a club 10 minutes from their home.

Proving that no good deed goes unpunished, our new parent bends down to pick up an apparently lost mobile phone that is ringing on the ground in front of a white-panel van. This leads to the inevitable. 

On arriving, the new girl meets her chum. The orientation includes a recitation of "Fight Club" rules.Of course, each guideline gets violated during the film.

The audience soon leans both that this for-profit and perverse fun enterprise is a father-son operation with Father (and Mother) remotely calling the shots and Son running a small crew from the house that serves as an operations center. The rest of the story is that the dark webmaster is a slave to his work. 

An inventory control problem coinciding with an expansion of the business in a manner that should be a cautionary tale to every annoying toddler out there combine to make things a bad day at the office for father and son alike. One lesson here is that good help is hard to find. 

Much of the appeal of "Room" relates to perverse pleasure associated with seeing how deranged some seemingly average people are and discovering the callous viciousness regarding the behavior of folks who are willing to meet the need of that segment of the public.

The copious DVD special features include behind-the-scenes interviews and a deleted scene that is roughly the same length as a typical Bugs Bunny short.