Trailer
Plot summary
Film student Tyler is obsessed with The Hills Run Red, a horror film that the few people who saw it call the scariest ever made, with the killer Babyface in the lead. The movie and its maker, Wilson Wyler Concannon, went missing long ago, and no known copy exists. Tyler learns that Concannon's daughter Alexa works at a nightclub and goes to meet her. She tells him the movie may be at her father's house in the woods. Tyler drives there with Alexa, his girlfriend Serina and their friend Lalo, interviewing people along the way. That night, locals bind and threaten the group. Babyface appears, kills them and disappears. Inside the house, Tyler finds a red room with film reels hanging from the ceiling.
Cast
- Mike Straubas Gabe
- Ekaterina Temelkovaas Sherri
- Itai Diakovas Teen Babyface (as Ithai Dyakov)
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about The Hills Run Red (2009)
Can contain spoilers, watch the movie first.
- Parker, on hiatus since directing The Dead Hate the Living!, and Burnett flew out to Hollywood and shot a teaser trailer that drew the attention of Bryan Singer and Gil Adler; Singer reached out to Diane Nelson, head of Warner Premiere, who agreed to produce the film and gave it the greenlight in April 2008.
- Sophie Monk passed on a role in The Hangover in order to star in this film instead; the casting was officially announced in June 2008, alongside Tad Hilgenbrink, Janet Montgomery and William Sadler.
- Director Dave Parker and producer Robert Meyer Burnett were unsatisfied with the screenplay from Carchietta and Dombrow and brought in David J. Schow to rework it; Burnett claimed the duo’s script was too “reflective” and “just seemed too much like Scream”.
- Filming began in Sofia, Bulgaria in June 2008 and wrapped the following month; in an interview in 2019, Monk herself admitted to not learning her lines.
