Director: Dave Parker
Writer: John Carchietta, John Dombrow
Cast: William Sadler, Sophie Monk, Tad Hilgenbrink, Janet Montgomery
The movie tells the story about a film fanatic who heads into the deep woods with some friends, to find a print of a lost slasher film 'The Hills Run Red', in which production mysteriously stopped and the crew went missing. However, the friends find more than they bargained for when they realized production never ended.
Hugely entertaining slasher about film student Tyler's attempts to track down a print and information about a 20 year old lost horror movie called The Hills Run Red. Apparently it was withdrawn from theatres due to being too scary, now the only thing left in public circulation is a trailer and a few posters/stills. Tylers only lead is the directors daughter Alexa whom also had a role in the movie. Tyler helps her free herself of a life of lap dancing and drug abusing in the hope she can help him track down the movie. Does lose itself slightly towards the end, and sure its slightly reminiscent of a cross between John Carpenters Masters of Horror story Cigarette Burns and Texas Chainsaw Massacre & Friday the 13th, but I think it rises above just being a copy by delivering a true love for its genre (best scene is the original 70's feeling trailer). The reason I think this'll go down a storm with genre fans is because come on lets face it who hasn't had that thrill of a hidden gem turning up they never thought would surface as it was presumed lost. Touch sad they didn't give it the ending it deserved but otherwise great entertaining gore fest well worth hunting down .
(7½ out of 10)
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