The Hills Run Red
by Dave Parker
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Actor: Sophie Monk, William SadlerDirector: Dave Parker
Brand: WHV
Writer: John Carchietta
Writer: David J. Schow
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown), Dolby Digital 5.1; English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); Japanese (Subtitled); English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 5.1; Portuguese (Dubbed), Dolby Digital 5.1
Format: AC-3, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 2.35:1
Running Time: 81 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2009-09-29
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: Warner Home Video
Product features:
- A film fanatic's obsession with finding a complete print of aic slasher movie leads him and two friends into the backwoods where the film was shot. They realize too late that filming never ended -- the movie's star, the deformed, murderous BABY FACE, and his twisted family continue to film and kill unsuspecting victims. Now our heroes must survive the nightmarish onslaught or become part of the mo
DVD Reviews of The Hills Run Red
DVD Review: The Hills Run...In a Positive Direction.
Summary: 3 Stars
After thinking about this movie...I would probably recommend it to most horror moviegoers.
I would say if Cigarette Burns, Happy Birthday to Me and Timber Falls had a love child...The Hills Run Red would be it.
As most of you already know, it's about a group of college kids trying to find an obscure, lost film (The Hills Run Red) so they can watch it and then write a thesis about it (or, something along those lines).
In their pursuit, one of the characters locates the director's daughter, and asks her to take them to where the film was shot. After she agrees, they also talk about possibly finding one of the prints of the film which might be located in her father's old home deep in the woods. I ask you...from Little Red Riding Hood, to The Hills Run Red...can ANYTHING ever good come from the woods?
What I give credit most to this film is that it actually tries to have a story. Once you are done watching it...let it sit with you for a day, and then recant what you had just seen. So many times we can sum it up with a rather short synopsis.
A bunch of kids wander off into the woods yelling "Let's get killed."
End credits.
What is nice about this flick is that there IS some character development (mostly by the two lead actors Tad H. & Sophie M.), followed by a great backstory (some of it which you won't see coming...amazingly enough), and a third act that adds yet another layer of story.
While some might balk that the movie doesn't kick in until AFTER they arrive at the woods where "The Hills Run Red" was filmed...I thought the lead up was nicely done, and kept me interested.
I also want to point out that Sophie Monk rocks this film. It is rare seeing a "direct to DVD release" with this level of acting. Now, not everybody is first rate, but the two leads, and also William Sadler have credible acting chops, which I have to admire for this type of film.
And, I would of loved to have been a fly on the wall when they turned to one of the side actors (Janet M.) and had this conversation with her -
"Yeah, Janet. How are you today? Good? Great. Okay...today you are going to be raped anally by someone who has cut off his face and replaced it with a creepy babydoll head."
"Oh, that's gre--wait. What?"
"Yeah, see, he's going to take you into one of the scariest looking rooms possible, force you over a barrel and shackle your feet. You won't be able to move."
"Uh..."
"Mm-hmm. And, then we are going to bind your hands in front of you with barbed wire. Did we mention that you'll be screaming for your life and covered in blood?"
"Uh...how about I treat everybody to a Frappachino instead?"
"Oh...that's so sweet of you, Janet. Absolutely...right after we bring out the barbed wire and you're backdoored by Babyface. Action!"
Now, since I am a die-hard horror fan, and have a collection that most people would appreciate, I do have to point out some unfortunate flaws.
Though the movie tries to be smart, sometimes is just comes off gimmicky. For instance, the main actor's buddy has a conversation in the car that is "Scream" worthy. About, how a bunch of kids ALWAYS take the road off the beaten path, never carry a gun, and how every ones cellphone always simultaneously goes dead. Zero bars.
Well, this statement is made because each thing comes into play...once. Unlike, say "Scream" where the whole movie is based around the stupidity of the genre.
It kind of seems tacked on.
Also, My Fellow Horror Buffs, you will call a lot of this before it happens. One of those "you can see it a mile away". However, there still are a couple surprises, so hang in there.
Lastly, and this MIGHT be a "spoiler alert" (advert eyes now), however, I find it just more of a pet peeve of mine more than anything else...but, I'm seeing a trend that I'm really getting tired of, and that is...hardly anybody lives.
Most of these types of movies are now beginning to blend into one another, before you even hit "Play" on your DVD or Blu-Ray player. You know (right away), to not get that invested in anyone, because rooting for someone is worthless, because starting with the "Saws" and "Hostels", everyone won't make it out alive. And, no. Neither did Jay Hernandez, who was bumped off in the first seven minutes of "Hostel 2". It's almost...why go along for the ride when every movie you watch nowadays wants to buck the system and have the most anti-Disney ending they can possibly get away with.
It was terrific the first couple of times...and, now...I'm done with it, Hollywood. Nowadays...if anybody makes it out alive, you'd be picking me up off the floor versus the other way around.
And, folks, I don't mean every, EVERY, movie, but for those who have watched a lot of these types of horror yarns, you know exactly what I mean.
And, finally the extras...which no one really ever comments about. There are only two. A full commentary track with the director, producer and writer (no principle actors), and a "Making Of" feature.
I haven't listened yet to the commentary, but it appears that everyone was truly into the making of this movie, but I did watch the "Making Of" feature.
It runs about 28 minutes, has some behind the scenes blended in, is fairly informative, and also has the majority of players talking about their roles and involvement in the movie. Overall, it was worth a watch.
What I'm kind of disappointed with...is that this movie was based on a short that the director showed Warner Brothers, which got them the additional funding to flesh this into a feature length film. Uh...why wasn't that short included?
Also, the main actor had incredible, and what looked like, original horror movie posters hanging in his room (one of them being the lost film, The Hills Run Red...which was creepy as hell).
Why weren't these provided in a Photo Gallery?
Another thing that seems like a no-brainer, is why they didn't gather all the footage for the mock film "The Hills Run Red" and produce that as one of the special features on the disc? You kind of see the mock trailer for the film, while watching the movie, and then brief flashback scenes, but it would have been a great bonus to have all that spliced together and to see it on it's own.
And, for the love of God, and all that is Holy and good...why isn't the damn trailer included? I will never understand this business. Also, the "The Hills Run Red" one sheet that the main actor (Tad H.) has up in his room (in the movie) SHOULD have been the DVD cover.
Welp. There you go. A solid three stars outing. Looking forward to Trick 'R Treat coming Oct. 6.
Also folks, I had the immense DIS-pleasure of seeing the remake of "It's Alive".
Please. Please don't make the same mistake. See this instead. Oh, please.
If given the choice of being raped by Babyface in a blood-drenched room or watching Bijou and company act in "It's Alive", please go with the former. You won't feel NEAR as dirty in the morning.
Description of The Hills Run Red
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!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
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