Plante’s ‘Red Rooms’ Thriller Earns Top Prize
The serial killer thriller earned best feature, screenplay, performance and score prizes as Cheval Noir competition were handed out at America’s largest genre festival.

After opening Fantasia’s 27th edition, the Canadian psychological drama earned Cheval Noirs for best feature, best screenplay for Pascal Plante and best score for Dominique Plante. Red Rooms also earned lead Juliette Gariépy an outstanding performance award,
Sympathy for the Devil reunites Cage with director Yuval Adler with Joel Kinnaman after The Secrets We Keep.
Fantasia, set to run until Aug. 9, will close with We Are Zombies, from the Canadian cult film collective RKSS, led by François Simard, Anouk Whissell and Yoann-Karl Whissell. The film stars Megan Peta Hill, Alexandre Nachi and Derek Johns.