The Hills Run Red

The Hills Run Red is a 2009 American slasher film directed by Dave Parker and written by David J. Schow and starring Sophie Monk, Tad Hilgenbrink and William Sadler. The film was released as direct-to-DVD on September 29, 2009, and received mixed reviews. The film focuses on a group of friends who attempt to find a lost horror film titled The Hills Run Red, but they find themselves being stalked by the film's serial killer, Babyface, and discover a horrifying secret about the film they seek. Plot Film student Tyler is obsessed with the horror film The Hills Run Red, considered the scariest movie ever made, with the deranged serial killer Babyface in the lead role. However, the film's director, Wilson Wyler Concannon, disappeared years ago, and no known copy of the film exists. Tyler's obsession leads him to neglect his girlfriend, Serina, who begins cheating on him with the couple's close friend, Lalo. When Tyler discovers that Concannon's daughter Alexa works in a nightclub as a stripper, he decides to meet her and ask about the lost film. He visits Alexa and asks her about the project as she gives him a nude lap dance and later brings him home, where he forces her to comply with him. Alexa informs Tyler that the movie might be in her father's home in the woods. Tyler drives out to Concannon's home, accompanied by Serina, Lalo, and Alexa. After interviewing several people on the way there, Tyler confides to Alexa that he deduced that Serina and Lalo are having an affair, and, after a heart-to-heart on his love for The Hills Run Red, he and Alexa kiss. They are suddenly bound and attacked by rednecks whom they had interviewed earlier, who threaten to rape Alexa and Serina. Babyface appears and kills the assaulters before chasing the group into the woods and disappearing. Tyler breaks into the house and finds a red room that contains many film reels hanging from the ceiling, and later rescues Alexa. The two meet up with Serina, but Babyface attacks the trio, which knocks Tyler unconscious, enables Babyface to catch Alexa, and forces Serina to flee, however Alexa is revealed to be ordering Babyface and had previously paid off the rednecks. During her escape, Serina is shocked to find bloodied bodies inside a makeshift smokehouse, but she is eventually captured by Babyface.