Red Nights


Red Nights is a 2010 giallo slasher film directed by Julien Carbon and Laurent Courtiaud. A Hong Kong-French-Belgian co-production, it is a thriller and a tale of erotic horror. The filmmakers call it a Hong Kong giallo with mystery, 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.