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Highly Overrated But Still Good

Exactly the movie you think it is, but not the movie you want it to be.

The tone of this movie is interesting -- the stakes are both dramatic and high, but it's balanced with a lot of fun, tongue and cheek dialogue.

Worth seeing just to witness how winsome it is.

An overzealous film student wants to make a documentary about the iconic status of a slasher film made in 1982 but never released due to it's violent content, and when he finds one of the actresses from the original movie, his documentary takes an interesting twist.Usually with movies like this, the filmmakers say they're paying homage to something, but they are just making a parody. The hills Run Red seem to know the difference.I loved how the movie tackles all of the slasher cliché's like going into the woods alone with no protection and no way to contact the outside world. It takes a little jab at the die hard audience who love this genre as well. Also loved the concept of the new slasher they came up with, Baby face. Everything about him screamed icon.It's very Texas Chainsaw in it's craziest, and it has a lot of real decent twist and turns that keep you guessing to the last frame without being too jumbled up with sub stories.Plus, it has nudity. It's a crazy movie to sit though, but well worth it.

If you've been watching horror movies over recent years (especially the ones that find their way directly to DVD) then you'll probably know how they go... kids (annoyingly attractive), drive to wilderness (totally remote and beyond the reach of anyone's cell phone) and encounter X (could just be basic human rednecks, could be vampire things that live underground – it doesn't really matter). From there it's your average 'stalk 'n slash' until the last teen is left standing.'The Hills Run Red' is hardly a classic, but at least it makes some attempt to be a little bit different. Okay, so the attractive teens go to your average out-of-the-way place and fall foul to... (well, you have to watch the film to find out), but at least the film-makers know the 'horror conventions' and do their best to subvert them. The teens are investigating a 'legendary' eighties horror film that has somehow got lost among the way, therefore there are plenty of references to horror movies' conventions and they do manage to break them here and there.The acting is about what you'd expect from a B-movie and the kills are inventive (although some people might notice the excessive use of CGI here and there) and, as I've mentioned, there's a few little differences that makes this one (at least) worth a watch if you're into the genre. Yes, it'll never be in the same league as the original Texas Chainsaw film, but it'll while away an hour and a quarter if you have time (and teenagers) to kill.http://thewrongtreemoviereviews.blogspot.co.uk/

The Hills Run Red is a slasher/horror film and it is one of the best of its kind to be released in a long time. The Hills Run Red is a perfect slasher film. It is very bloody and it has a villain that feels like a classic villain just like Jason Voorheese and more. The film is scary and tense and has a lot of unexpected twists. The acting is very good and a special compliment goes to Sophi Monk who is very believable in this role. The kills are good and the concept for the film is an original one and very cool. I want to see more of Babyface and I hope there will be a sequel. This film is bloody, sexy, funny, scary and good film to watch with friends on a Friday night. I give it 7/10 and hope horror and slasher fans will support it!

I was feeling good about the proposition of watching The Hills Run Red, as I only watched it after reading some very positive DVD reviews giving it a boost.The opening scene only ramped up my anticipation too, it set a tone that at least told me this wasn't going to be a PG 13 snoozefest and set a solid standard that I hoped the remainder of the film might aspire to.The bad news – That didn't happen.The good news – The movie wasn't awful at least... but just barely.We open with credits interspersed with "cuts" of a young kid calmly taking the scissors to his own face in fairly graphic and gory detail. As yet we have no idea why but it serves as an effective opening scene which at least tells us this isn't going to be Prom Night 2: Prom Queen's Revenge.The plot that brings Victims A through D into the sphere of Killer A involves aspiring filmmakers and their efforts to track down an infamous but reclusive director who made a particularly gory - and subsequently banned - horror film in the 80s.The film was conveniently call The Hills Run Red, and all that exists is a crappy trailer, we are told this by words on the screen, as explaining events and actions through plot takes valuable time and we need to get to the boobies and gore.The killer in the film was named Babyface, who cut off his own face and sewed a dead eyed expressionless doll's face over the top of what remained.Watching the trailer through the eyes of one of the filmmakers gave no cause for alarm, and definitely no reason as to why the thing was banned, but here we once again obey the convention of if the film says it was too gory, then it was too gory. (This is usually utilised with master criminals, who do nothing that suggests intelligence or genius but we believe they are because we are told so.) A young filmmaking dude named Travis tracks down the daughter of the director, who in a fortunate twist of cinematic convenience is a young blonde hottie who strips for a living. Of course he goes to meet her at "work", so that they might talk shop over a lapdance... No complaints here.The stripper Alexa takes Tyler home and offers herself up to him, Tyler refuses as he recognises that Alexa is a full blown junkie, so rather than hopping aboard he does the right thing and puts her through a 30 second detox montage to sober her up so that she may be of some use later in the film.Meanwhile his flatmate Gabe humps the crap out of Tyler's girlfriend Serina in a variety of positions in Tyler's flat. (Shoulda taken the offer man!) For some reason this is never touched on for the rest of the film. His best mate plowed his girlfriend! They didn't use that info to justify a difficult decision or a uncomfortable reveal later in the film? So after the magical detox capabilities offered by a montage Alexa joins the three others to embark upon a junket to visit all the main sites used in filming the original film, hoping to uncover something that helps lead them to the director I guess.They interview locals who somehow haven't moved in 27 years, some of them looking like they are in their mid 30s, which means they were under 10 when the movie was made and shouldn't have been around anyway.This brief sequence takes them near the deserted homestead where the main sequences were filmed, I say near as they seemed to walk for a long while to find the house, in the dark of course.As they camp for the night it is obvious that they are being watched… and this is always where the alleged fun starts.They are beset by a group of rednecks that they interviewed earlier, keen to do a little filmmaking of their own with Alexa as the unwilling star, only they are rudely interrupted - and killed - by none other than Babyface.Oh come on, that isn't a spoiler. We all knew he was coming.Then we have 20 more minutes of gore, blood, some more inexplicable nudity (again no complaints) and a few twists that might be shocking if you've never seen a movie before.The surprising part of all this is that Sophie Monk (Alexa) - a teen pop star in Australia as a result of those manufactured for a TV show groups - can sorta act, and she isn't averse to taking her gear off a few times too if you disagree.She does need to lay off the Botox though, her lips are so big that she had to start saying her line as the other actor gave her the lead in line, as it took a few seconds to arrive past the Jaggeresque flappers. The other surgery that she has obviously had is hard to fault though... Both of them.After the great first couple minutes it was a little disappointing that the film allowed itself to end up nothing more than a running-around-chased-by-a-freak-with-a-knife screamfest.Another not really interesting fact is that the film was made in Czechoslovakia. Or Bulgaria. Or one of the other 'garias, Hungaria? As the credits rolled I have never seen so many surnames ending with V, (Kabakov, Jankov etc.) Final Rating – 5.5 / 10. After the opening face-peeling scene the only reason to hang around is my fascinating fact involving film crew members whose name ends with "v". If that convinces you to bother with the rest I am sorry.If you liked this review (or even if you didn't) check out oneguyrambling.com