Unless you really want to push the goth look, avoid red on a black background, even with images. Blue and purple are just as bad. Text in these colors on a ...
... if you need to put more than a line of text on a black background. Black is simply too strong of a color and overpowers every other color on the page.
wallpaper black red text
Example of good use of chromostereopsis, by Whitney Hess
Black Background Red Text