''Red Velvet'' is a 2008 American

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directed by Bruce Dickson and written by Anthony Burns and Joe Moe. The film stars

Henry Thomas Henry Jackson Thomas Jr. (born September 9, 1971) is an American actor. He began his career as a child actor and had a lead role in the film '' E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial'' (1982), for which he won a Young Artist Award and received Golden Globe ...

and

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and is the final film of

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Premise

A man meets a young woman, leading to a tale wherein a man in a white suit kills everyone at a birthday party.

Cast

Reception

Thomas M. Sipos of Hollywood Investigator wrote that it is a slasher film but not quite a horror film. And of the film's protagonist, wrote "He's psychotic, but he's also vulnerable, literate, and identifiable. He has more common with the suspense psychos of '' Psycho'' and ''

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'' than with the superhuman psychos of ''

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'' and its progeny." Dread Central wrote that "Henry Thomas yet again proves to be one of those hidden gems", and that "''Red Velvet'' is deranged and inspired in equal measures, sometimes both at the same time."

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* * {{IMDb title, 1096991 2008 films 2008 horror films 2008 independent films 2000s American films 2000s English-language films 2000s slasher films American independent films American slasher films American splatter films Films shot in Los Angeles