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The Hills Run Red (2009)
Tags: (13 votes)
Rating #:
7/10
Director:
Dave Parker
Runtime:
81 minutes
Cast:
Janet Montgomery,
Tad Hilgenbrink,
Sophie Monk,
Alex Wyndham,
Ewan Bailey,
Mike Straub,
William Sadler Writer/director Dave Parker finally returns to the genre after his 2000 debut with the low-budget zombedy The Dead Hate the Living, and after a couple writing gigs and various documentary efforts, he brings us the gutsy straight-to-DVD slasher The Hills Run Red. Not a bad return, in my opinion. Hills has received a lot of positive feedback from numerous critics since its rounds at festivals and has garnered a decent amount of hype. I try not to pay much attention to hype behind a flick, as it usually leaves you disappointed when you discover that the movie isn't as good as many have made it out to be. Luckily for Hills, it did turn out to be a fairly good and enjoyable slasher.
The story follows a film buff/horror fanatic, whose obsession towards an obscure
slasher film leads him to track down the director's daughter in hopes of finding out why the movie seems to have disappeared from existence and if a complete print of it still exists. Accompanied by his unfaithful girlfriend/boom mic operator and his best friend/camera man, they set out to the town where the flick was shot and more specifically the wooded area, where many of the kills took place. However, the group will soon discover that the film was never fully completed and it's still on-going, now with them as the new leads...The killer in this flick is called "Babyface" due to the fact that he wears a babyface mask over his own disfigured face, which he willingly cut up with a pair of scissors as a kid! The killer, much like the movie, doesn't play into a lot of the standard slasher formulas, in fact, the best friend character points out a lot of clichés we often see in the genre in a
few scenes of this movie. Cell phones? Work! Got a gun? Yup! Splitting up!? I don't think so! Hell, Babyface even busts out a handgun at one point and shoots some fool.As far as gore goes, there's a decent amount here and there, but nothing really worth mentioning. The practical effects were pretty standard, but there were a couple cheesy CGI shots that it could've been done without. There's nothing really that stands out with me in terms of deaths, but there were a couple nice torture scenes. Expect a lot of boobage early on, while we're getting to know our leads, especially when we first meet Sophie Monk's character as the director's daughter, who has grown up to be a junkie stripper.
The movie isn't the most original, but it still attempts to throw some twists at us towards the end, which chances are us seasoned genre vets will have already seen coming. Regardless, there was a good amount of blood and I really liked the killer and how the film attempted to change some of the clichés we're witness to far too often within the genre. Give this a check.
| Posted on September 26, 2009 - 5:42pm | FrighT MasteR |
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BABYFACE was hilarious in this movie and the fact that they had one of the actors from American Pie Band Camp just made it even more amazing. If u do not like the gore in this film, then you're not a true horror fan. The acting wasn't that bad and the ending was real creepy.
This movie is garbage, complete and utter garbage! The storyline really makes no sense, there are more plot holes than character lines, and the acting is so bad that you're sure to see better in a kindergarten play. Overall, the movie wasn't even worth me commenting on, but I figured if I could save one poor soul from watching this film it would be worth it.
i really enjoyed this movie i love when dumb ass kids go off into the wood looking for something and just end up getting murder one by one i dont care if there acting is crap as long as they have a good killer and someone to play that killer good like they did with baby face
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Hello,
Just saw this movie the other day and I was very disappointed. When I read and saw certain things about this film, I thought it would scare me beyond beliefe. But, after watching it, I felt empty like, 'What in the world?......' It really had the potiential to me amazing. But, it just fell WAY short. I figured out the main blonde was behind everything quickly and most of everything was predictable, it was pretty sad. Some of the overly obvious shout out to, "The Blair Witch Project" made me squirm. Do not get me wrong, I liked, "The Blair Witch Project" but, their was not much creativity here. The most disturbing part of the film was during the open credits, (Boy cutting his face). But, it definetly did have some, "Hills Have Eyes" simularities as well. In conclusion, this film would be good to watch if you were a male breeder on a date with a girl or a first time horror mnovie watcher, but, for someone like me, it was rather disappointing.
I'll just throw my opinion out there since it is kind of on the opposite pole of others stated thus far.
****SPOILER WARNINGS****
Nothing in this flick is believable. The fabled lost movie is a head-scratcher, as it looks like, well, an amateur film shot in the backwoods. The reasons the characters do what they do are completely half empty (there's no reason to care about anyone in the movie). The viewer isn't given a single reason to like anyone. The setting isn't utilized when it could have been to help overcome a silly story with worse characters. There's no tension, and there's more holes in the plot than there are things that work for the plot.
Oh, and the villains aren't scary...At all. Sure, inbreeding murderous backwoods freaks are scary. And so are pretentious art-school megalomaniacs. But inbreeding, murderous, backwoods, pretentious, art-school megalomaniacs are not as scary as they are annoying, incongruent, and comically awful.
This movie absolutely didn't do it for me; just my opinion...
OK, So I say this last night and I gotta say I enjoyed this film. It kept me entertained throughout the film. Yes, it has plot problems but the acting was good enough to keep it going. And having William Saddler in it, well , that helped a lot. I had a fun time with this film. Babyface was pretty convincing at some times. Definitely worth a watch.
So I have mixed emotions about this movie. Ill start with the things I liked. The Hills run red had some unique and brutal death scenes. First 2 min is some extreme squirmy gore. Loved it. Then concept is pretty different. A horror movie within a horror movie. Sophia Monk did a great job playing a screwed up gore freak. The killer is by far cliché. He brings some definte comedy to the mix.
Things I didnt like, the story draged on way to long. There was also some scenes the movie could have done without. Like all the nudity. dont get me wrong the women are hot, but come on. Also it shows that the main chacaters Girlfriend is sleeping with his best friend, however it never shows confrontation. The story trys to come together but kinda lacked in many ways.
With this movie your kinda put between a couple things, Do you love it for all the awesome gore and death scenes? Or do you hate it because the story flatlines and goes some what nutso on you.
Well for me, I love gore and story and I guess it gives enough of a story to be decent. the unquie death scenes and first 2 min save this movie from being a total let down. So yeah worth watching!
Actually there was confrontation........When William Saddlers best friend was sleeping near the tent with his girlfriend.......he then knew what was going on but then ignored it because he was focusing on making the movie.......but Sophia Monk also noticed that.....so remember when they were about to kiss......but then William heard something around the bushes so it didn't happen.
Finally, something original and scary. I closed my eyes, three or four times. It was intense and unpredictable. And the ending, totally blows your mind.
This movie was well written and well thought out. Not your typical ending, where the damsel and her stupid boyfriend escape. Horror movies are meant to scare people and not have crappy predicatble happy endings. Everyone is meant to meet some kind of doom.
And the movie isn't about in-breeding. I kept wondering, "Why wasn't the film finished ?" And I soon found out, with a great plot twist.
This thing has so many plot twists, it kept me guessing. And nobody escapes. There were a few predicatble scenes, but it reminded me of the original "Texas Chainsaw Massacre". Not the Jessica Beil piece of crap.
I loved the film and this gave William Sadler's flailing career, a major reboot. He may soon become a horror legend.
Give this movie a chance. I did and wasn't disappointed.