Red Night

Horror / Experimental / Art

USA / No Dialogue

71 Minutes / Color

Enter the colorful world of a queer chosen family of five monsters. These siblings are inseparable, always supporting each other and just trying to make it through each day. What was supposed to be a joyous reunion turns red when an evil being that was unleashed on Ash’s journey tags along. This being is fixated on isolating and killing each of the monsters one by one. Ash is determined to protect their family, fighting back against the relentless foe.

Red Night is a slasher film set in a suburban home, where a human killer stalks five colorful monsters. Each room of the house is a different monochromatic color, and as the monsters move through the space, they change color with each room. The film draws on the cinematic traditions of Dario Argento’s Giallo films, specifically Deep Red and Suspiria. The tone is classic 70s/80s horror through and through.

Red Night highlights the helplessness of individualism through the narrative of a slasher film. In typical slasher fashion, victims are pursued and killed when they are on their own, but when the characters are together they are able to counter the seemingly indestructible killer.

Principal Cast

Beck as Ash

Adrienne Lauren as Elle

Kayla Aguila as Sid

Tetiana Sklyarova as Jess

Shelley Bloom as Sal

Collin as The Smile


Principal Crew

Directed by Beck+Col

Creative Producer Mel Sangyi Zhao

Director of Photography Marco Yizhou Zhang

Production Sound by Siyuan Liu

Assistant Cinematography Siyan Qin

Sound Design by Chenqing Zhu

Re-recording mix by Aidan Reynolds

Color by Jack Tashdjian

Festivals

Another Hole in the Head

Zed Fest Film Festival

BizarroLand Film Festival

SFTF Showcase

Critical Reaction

“A bit Eraserhead, a bit Vegas in Space, a lot WTF, this vividly colored, dialogue-free oddity featuring works from numerous visual artists is a true original.” - Dennis Harvey, 48 Hills

“[T]he film weaves influences from horror cinema, pop culture, and political theory into a blood-and-guts-soaked phantasmagoric parable about the importance of communal solidarity.” - Matt Stromberg, Hyperallergic

“This is certifiably batshit crazy.”  - billhsu, Letterboxd



Art Brut Statement

When I first saw Red Night, I admit I had no idea what I had just seen. How do I even describe it? Was it a movie? Was it a piece of art? What maniacs made this? I loved the visual style and music - it was hypnotic. “But… Good luck finding distribution for that,” I thought. And yet, days later, I kept thinking about the film. I couldn’t get it out of my mind. I had to see it again. And I did. And then I thought, “This movie has to be distributed! It’s crazy! It’s bonkers! The world needs to see it - or at least the small sliver of people who want to see something they have never seen before!”

So what is Red Night? Red Night is a fever dream. It’s a slasher movie with no dialogue taking place in a house of a haute couture family of alien monsters where the the slasher is a naked dude with black eyes and the monsters are light-hearted souls that dance across the screen with beauty and grace. I don’t know how to describe it, but I know if you see it, you will never forget it.

Art Brut is proud to give audiences the opportunity to experience the enigmatic magic of Red Night for themselves.