(No significant spoilers, actually) This movie is really, really bad. Even if you tell me the Budget was 1.5 million, It's a waste. Straight-to-DVD is the only destiny this flawless film could deserve, despite it should never have been made.First of all: it violates one of the main principles of every decent movie (including of course Horror movies), which consist on revealing the kind of movie it is and settle the film's tone and climate at the first 5 minutes. The Hills Run Red, by the contrary, is a Horror, Slasher film, with no murders, neither violence, during the first 30 minutes! Not even any kind of intense darkness (unless you consider a short scene of a stripper using heroine is dark and intense for a Horror film of the 21th Century).Second: the acting is awful!!! Almost annoying. The exception is Sadler (who nearly doesn't appear in the first half of the movie).The plot is garbage. The altruistic way the stripper, Tyler's cheating girlfriend, and Tyler's traitor "friend" decide to help him with his crusade is simply ridiculous. The reaction of Tyler to the cheating and the betrayal suggests that producer's dog ate some pages of the script. Then you have some pathetic attempts to gain depth with far-fetched dialogues explaining incest and ambition issues (similar to the villain exposing his plans to the hero in cartoons), combined with revelation of artificial "pervert" behaviors linked to sadistic filming and monsters breeding.The killings, the ways the good ones escape, and the tricks of the bad ones, are all extremely artificial (but not even filmed in a comic way: just artificial boring garbage). And the "gore" scenes are less interesting and less intense than in Hostel.In addition, the Topic of the movie (obsession, and all the things you may sacrifice for it) is tackled in a soft, dull way. And the most interesting character, Concannon, has a too secondary role.The positive: a little bit of nudity from Sophie Monk (strange face, lovely tits; forget about a long scene building a really sexy climate: just flawless nudity), a nice sex scene with Janet Montgomery, and a scene with a short dark moment of son-mother love (normal love, not incest).The 5,5 IMDb users' rating is extremely generous, unfair. Even in Cinema Terror and Bloody Good Horror it gets 3/10. The 5,5 rating is obviously inflated by radical Fanatics of Slasher sub-culture. Indeed, for example, one of the reviewers who rated the film with an unbelievable 8 (eight!!!!) stated himself "t's a great movie for film geeks and horror buffs all around, and a sly poke at the gore-nography sub genre culture." Trivia: the Director, the Screenwriters and some of the actors have (before and after this movie) no career in films.

Back in the 1980s famous great horror aficionado Wilson Wyler Concannon (William Sadler) was renowned for no movies whatsoever apart from one that wasn't even released, as it went missing. That movie is "The Hills Run Red", a story about Baby-Face, a guy who cut off his own face and sewed on a dolls mask to replace it and soon afterwards goes on a horror rampage. Enticed by the story and hoping that it becomes his own claim to fame aspiring director Tyler (Tad Hilgenbrink) decides to track down the long lost picture and its infamous director. This leads him to Concannon's daughter Alexa (the beautiful and oft naked Sophie Monk), now working as a stripper in a biker's pub. After convincing her to partake in his endeavour he takes a camera and two filmmaker friends to retake that which had been forgotten.Dark Castle Entertainment has an unrivaled gift of releasing crappy horror flicks in succession with the odd gem hidden behind a cascade of crappiness. This one unfortunately flows down straight to the gutter together with flicks such as "The Reaping" or "Thirteen Ghosts". The main flaw of all these seems to be exceptionally poor character development and script inadequacies substituted by extreme gore. This time around we actually have a lot of promise in the movie, which runs like a "Friday the Thirteen" ripoff for large parts of its runtime, only to counterpoint this with some "Scream" type movie references. Some scenes hilariously hit the spot, with Baby-Face's out-of-character response to one of the hapless victims a delightful highlight of this otherwise poor movie.Despite some admirable qualities the twist introduced two-thirds into the movie largely fails. In a big part due to the incapability of William Sadler and Sophie Monk to carry their roles. Their bickering about the art of horror films is irritating and badly written, which doesn't help in the plot resolution, as this was the issue that would either carry or drown the movie (especially the poorly scripted debate between old-fashioned slashers and modern gorno).It isn't entirely a waste of time and those fans of over-the-top gore (occasionally going into gorno territory), but given the limited emotional involvement and the sub-par payoff it seems like a wasted opportunity for a decent horror. As it is I would suggest passing and seeking out the Rob Zombie "House of 1000 Corpses".

Finally, I got to see this hyped horror. After watching the many promos that showed on cable, I was hoping for something truly big. Me & my expectations! We've the usual Mr.sincere guy(Tad Hilgenbrink as Tyler), his doting love(Janet Montgomery as Serina), his naughty, prankster pal(Alex Wyndham as Lalo) and then we also have a blond hottie(Sophie Monk as Alexa) who's sometimes mellow but mostly high! All the right roles for a chill buster, and then of course the monster character - a Jason lookalike, slaughter maniac called Babyface! The first-half goes smack on predictable lines. The boredom could have been partially avoided if at least one of the characters was knocked off right in the beginning.But I must say the movie delivers in the second half. At times violent but still tense. And the unexpected finale tops it all.The performances were to the mark especially William Sandler(always fab in evil roles) as the presumed dead horror movie director Concannon and the wickedly talented Sophie Monk as Alexa.Inspite of all that, one of the main protagonists, our Yuckface...oops Babyface has quite a clumsy role here. Like a dumb butcher who knows nothing better. His characterisation could have been stronger and this movie would have been a good hit.Verdict: The recipe is a weak mix of Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Jason and some others but still....bloody nice :)

why? If this movie would have been viewed worldwide in every theater, baby face would be the next horror icon.this is down right amazing with an almost perfect plot. Great!!!!!! I've been waiting for a great horror movie with a plot that actually makes sense to surface. Here it is..I enjoyed every single moment of this film. If your looking for a slasher film with original taste and its own story line and not those typical duplicates they tend to release nowadays, "The Hills Runs Red" will definitely give u a run for your money...Jason?Micheal Myers?Pin Head? No...Not this time..Victor Crowley?. No. Not this time..Baby Face is the name..Hey, give him a Chance..its well deserved with a layout like this. what more can u ask for? I thought horror died about 10 years ago..Guess not..This film proved me wrong...Enjoy!!!!!