Red Nights

Red Nights (Les Nuits rouges du Bourreau de Jade) is a 2010 French-Hong Kong giallo slasher film directed by Julien Carbon and Laurent Courtiaud. It is a thriller and a tale of erotic horror. The filmmakers call it a Hong Kong giallo with mystery, (sadistic) murders, fetishism and women. The film played at the 2010 Toronto International Film Festival in the Midnight Madness section.

Plot

There is a legend of an executioner who created a poison which brought death through absolute pleasure. This legend repeats nowadays when a French woman flees to Hong Kong after killing her lover and stealing from him an old artifact containing this poison. She meets a mobster from Taiwan and an epicurean and sadistic woman killer, who all want to get the precious poison.

Cast

References

External links

Red Nights at IMDb

Colin Geddes (2010). “Red Nights [programme note]”. Toronto International Film Festival. Archived from the original on 23 August 2010.