Director Stephen Gaffney's horror debut "Red Room" is set to open this year’s Underground Cinema Film Festival on August 31st.
Produced by Marc Hughes (Sicario Pictures), this indie feature is the third to be released by Deep Web Films, an Irish production company co-founded by Stephen Gaffney and Erica Keegan."Red Room" also stands as the final chapter of Gaffney's “Deep Web Trilogy” - a combination of thriller, crime, drama, and horror which delves into the darkest corners of the Dark Net.
The film follows Kyra, a young woman kidnapped off the streets who later awakes in a locked room with two other captives. They are informed by their sadistic captors that they must wait their turn to enter the Red Room. Although they are unaware of what the Red Room holds and are also clueless as to where they are, the three girls plot to escape.
Written by Stephen Gaffney and Erica Keegan, the feature stars Amy Kelly (Red Rock), John D'alessandro (Class-A, Cardboard Gangsters), Eddie Jackson (Game of Thrones), Eoin Quinn (Fair City, limp) Brian Fortune (Game of Thrones), Alan Sherlock (Lift) , and Fionna Twamley-Hewitt (Red Rock, Charlie), alongside Saoirse Doyle (Class-A, Crone Wood), Rodrigo Ternevoy (Fair City), Aisling O'Neill (Fair City), and more.
The film has recently been picked up for distribution in 2018 in North America and Canada by Wildeye Releasing.
The Underground Film Festival runs August 31 – Sept 3rd in Dun Laoghaire. Full details available: here