The Hills Run Red – Movie Review
Every gene film Fan Of a certain age remembers the joy of trying to track down a copy of some obscure/banned film on video back the Day.
This film follows such fan Tyler as he searches for any information about the long lost slasher masterpiece: The Hills Run Red (not the Tab Hunter western)
The Hills Run Red, Wilson Wyler Concannon masterpiece features Babyface: a horrible mutilated man-child who wears a dolls face as a mask.
The film has become some what of an urban legend with apparently no known print of the film existing; only a poor quality internet trailer & some stills. Both the print & its enigmatic director disappeared twenty Odd years earlier after it’s & only public screening. Tyler’s obsession drives him to seek as much information as possible; his break comes when he locates the director’s daughter & child star of the film, Alexa Concannon.
Alexa, now working as a stripper is reluctant talk about her tormented experiences on-set. Tyler convinces Alexa to help him with his if documentary, guiding him & his crew to backwoods locations where the film was shot.
After an encounter with some rednecks they realise that they are definitely on the right trail. Deep in the woods they make a gruesome discovery convincing Tyler that they had found the right location. The film continues to flashback to the scenes from The Hills Run Red, including some nice kill shots.
The group are attacked & Alexa is kidnapped by you guessed it Babyface himself. Only then do they realise that the director hasn’t called a wrap on The Hills Run Red and not all the actors will be around for the red carpet premiere.
Yes, I know: four young people in the middle of nowhere with no mobile phone signal and someone or something is watching them. However, this is not your average survival slasher movie; the director Dave Parker obviously knows his arse from his Argento. It does pay homage to some the better slashers of the last thirty years but it also treads its path.
Sophie Monk (of early Australian ‘Popstars’) performance as the emotionally damaged wild child Alexa is very convincing. It’s great to see a William Sandler cameo in what is a well rounded original slasher with good atmospheric score
Note: Dave Parker (director), Frederick Wiedmann (score), Alex Wyndham (Lalo) & Janet Montgomery (Serina) were on hand to answer questions.
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