Ember's analysis
- Pacing
- Brisk
- Intensity
- Strong
- Complexity
- Easy to follow
- Violence
- Graphic
- gruesome
- anarchic
- tense
- halloween night
- midnight horror marathon
What critics said
Critics generally regarded the film as a brisk, gory, self-aware slasher with an effective villain, while finding its story and twists uneven or unoriginal.
What sets it apart
May contain story progression spoilers
Tyler searches for the vanished horror movie The Hills Run Red and interviews people connected to its production.
The plot revolves around horror fandom and explicitly frames its killer and lost movie through slasher history.
Tyler's group travels to Concannon's remote house in the woods and faces redneck attackers and Babyface.
Babyface is presented as the central visual and mythic figure of the lost film and its violent aftermath.
Films like The Hills Run Red, and why
Behind the Mask: The Rise of Leslie Vernon
inventive slasher mechanics, gruesome kills, and a masked serial killer
Scream 4
self-aware horror fandom, film-within-a-film ideas, and meta slasher conventions
Wrong Turn
isolated wilderness setting, brutal slasher violence, and relentless survival horror
Movie Details
- Director
- Dave Parker
- Release Date
- 2009-09-29
- Runtime
- 81 min
- Rating
- 5.8 / 10 (354)
Cast
- Sophie Monk
- Tad Hilgenbrink
- William Sadler
- Janet Montgomery
- Alex Wyndham
- Ewan Bailey
- Mike Straub
- Hristo Mitzkov
- Joy McBrinn
- Ekaterina Temelkova
Where to watch in United States
- Streaming
- Howdy Amazon Channel
- Rent
- Amazon Video, Apple TV Store, Google Play Movies, YouTube, Fandango At Home
- Buy
- Amazon Video, Apple TV Store, Google Play Movies, YouTube, Fandango At Home
Streaming options come from TMDB and change over time.
Common questions
- What is The Hills Run Red about?
- A horror obsessive’s search for a vanished slasher film leads him and his companions into the woodland domain of its brutally real masked killer.
- What is The Hills Run Red like to watch?
- Ember's analysis rates the pacing of The Hills Run Red as brisk, its intensity as strong and its storytelling as easy to follow.
- Is The Hills Run Red violent?
- Yes. Ember rates the violence in The Hills Run Red as graphic.
- What did critics think of The Hills Run Red?
- Critics generally regarded the film as a brisk, gory, self-aware slasher with an effective villain, while finding its story and twists uneven or unoriginal.
- Which films are like The Hills Run Red?
- Films with a similar feel include Behind the Mask: The Rise of Leslie Vernon, Scream 4, and Wrong Turn.
- How long is The Hills Run Red?
- The Hills Run Red runs 81 minutes.
- Where can I watch The Hills Run Red?
- In United States, The Hills Run Red streams on Howdy Amazon Channel.
