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List Price: $19.98 | | Label: Warner Home Video
Salesrank: 8254
Released: September 29, 2009 |
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MPAA Rating: R (Restricted)
Media: DVD |
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Editorial Review:
You heard the story. The one about the goriest, bloodiest splatter flick ever, the one made in the ’80s but mysteriously lost. Flash forward to now: Young cinema buffs search for the secret location where the movie was shot, hoping to find the film. What they find is that the goriest, bloodiest splatter flick ever is more than a movie. It’s real. And it’s happening to them. The Hills Run Red with a whole new level of horror as the terrified interlopers confront a demented killer who covers his hacked-up face with a babydoll mask. Wait, Babyface is just a character from the movie, right? Wrong. He’s alive. He’s waiting. He’s thrilled to meet fans who will die – slowly, gruesomely, shockingly – for his art. Roll camera!
Description of The Hills Run Red:
There was once a film so terrifying, so incredibly scary, that it only briefly played theaters and was immediately suppressed. And possibly destroyed. Never heard of it? That's because this urban-legend mystery exists in director Dave Parker's The Hills Run Red, a clever little number about a group of young cineastes on the trail of the aforementioned movie. Would-be filmmaker Tyler (Tad Hilgenbrinck) finds a stripper named Alexa (Sophie Monk), who just happens to be the daughter of the mysterious director of the legendary lost film; Tyler drags two other friends (Janet Montgomery, Alex Wyndham) into the woods to research the location shooting of that fabled project. Since these characters are all hip in a post-Scream way to the dangers of young people going off into the woods, there's plenty of self-conscious humor about horror-movie clichés. Sure enough, once they leave civilization, the inbred weirdos and secret hiding places and gothically bizarre torture implements begin to crop up. The movie gets points for being clever, and there's at least one great plot-shifting moment (it involves the word fetch); but once the blood starts running, a familiar series of lacerations and punctures fills in for character development. Veteran character actor William Sadler runs a few variations on the classic bad guy, and Parker introduces a mask-wearing, knife-wielding killer who's clearly meant to join the ranks of Jason and Pinhead and other slasher icons. Call him… Babyface! In other words, not terrible for a direct-to-DVD offering from the Dark Castle company, but not great. The Babyface sequel can't be far off. --Robert Horton
The Hills Run Red Reviews:
Kill, Babyface, Kill! 
2009-12-08 - As I'm sure you know by now, loyal reader, after a stressful day, there's nothing I like better than sitting back with a glass of Cabernet Sauvignon and watching teenagers get tortured to death. The teens in this movie were extra-deserving of this fate. Apart from the blonde - who gets, shall we say, artistic? - none of the characters betrays any but the most rudimentary personality, a condition that I've recently come to understand as endemic to young "adults." Yes, most people between the ages of 18 and 30 seem to subsist as a kind of personality protoplasm, congratulating themselves on how little differentiated they are from their cronies. So do enter the theater expecting lines like, "Dude! I was in the moment!" and "Am I supposed to see you talking to a hot blonde and believe that you're just friends?" "Hey, chill, awright?"
Not to worry, they meet the horrible fate they so richly deserve. Now if only I could somehow get Babyface to come to my suburb and lay waste to the worthless teen population. What to do... Hey! I've got it! I can simply murder them all myself and frame Babyface for the crimes! Okay, now: we never had this little conversation. Got it?
The best slasher film of 2009. 
2009-11-28 - Back in 2000 director Dave Parker proved he could make an excellent horror film with his first feature, THE DEAD HATE THE LIVING. With THE HILL'S RUN RED, he proves once again that he is one of the best new directors on the horror scene and lets hope it won't be another nine years before his next film is released. The title of the film is really it's only problem since it sounds like an Asylum mockbuster of THE HILL'S HAVE EYES or something. This one is far better than most of what currently passes for horror. Parker knows how to deliver the goods and he has come up with a very dark, grim, unrelenting and frightening horror film. It isn't that often that a slasher pic deals with incest and pedophilia, but Parker makes it work.
The cast in this film is first rate. Tad Hilgenbrinck finally gets a role that lets him be a little more than a comic wiseguy and he keeps his clothes on for the entire movie (I'm not sure if that's a good thing or not). He is an exceptional actor and I hope he gets more roles like this one. There is a ton of female nudity from Sophie Monk and Janet Montgomery and both actresses are quite believable in the horrible situations they find themselves in. Alex Wyndham is very good as Lalo. We also get to see the classy William Sadler as the film's chief villain and he brings a lot of life to his character.
The film has so many gruesome bloody effects that it is impossible to list them all, and they are accompanied by a Bernard Herman type score. The writing is very good and this script goes out of its way to avoid horror movie cliches (all the characters have their cell phones with them while lost in the woods and the phones WORK! and they also carry a gun with them). It's a smart, effective movie that builds to a crescendo of violence and mayhem that becomes quite nerve racking. It's an exhausting movie to watch.
I think it isn't that easy to make an entertaining slasher film (just look at what happened to the awful remake of FRIDAY THE 13th for example) but this one is head and shoulders above most of the competition. If you like slasher movies I can't imagine that you wouldn't like this one.
What a Mess 
2009-11-21 - The movie is a complete, hot, stinky mess, and yes the ending positioned the movie for a sequel.
LIFE IMITATING ART? 
2009-11-05 - BACK IN THE 80S A MOVIE CALLED THE HILLS RUN RED BECAME A LEGEND BECAUSE THE CAST AND DIRECTOR VANISHED. AN OBSESSIVE HORROR BUFF IN 2009 WANTS TO FIND A PRINT OF THE MOVIE AND POSSIBLY WHAT HAPPENED. HE TRACKS DOWN THE DIRECTOR'S DAUGHTER WHO MANAGED TO SURVIVE THE EVENTS. AFTER FINDING HER AS A TRIPPED OUT STRIPPER, HE KIDNAPS HER TO DRY HER OUT AND THEN TAKES HER ALONG WITH HIS TWO-TIMING GIRLFRIEND AND BEST FRIEND TO THE PLACE WHERE THE MOVIE WAS FILMED...AND YOU CAN GUESS WHAT HAPPENS.
THE FILM DESERVES AN E FOR EFFORTS TO BE DIFFERENT, BUT ONCE IT KICKS IN GEAR, IT JUST GOES OVER THE TOP GIVING WILLIAM SADLER LICENSE TO CHEW UP THE SCENERY. LEAD SOPHIE MONK IS TERRIBLE AND THE MOVIE BECOMES JUST ANOTHER BLOODSOAKED TORTURE FLICK. ALSO WATCH THE END CREDITS...THE MOVIE'S FINAL TRICK IS STILL TO COME.
pretty cool flick
2009-11-04 - ill keep it simple, liked the gore, story was decent, and it held my interest. good late night slasher movie!
