When you hear that a film went straight-to-video, what’s the first thing you think? “Must not have been good enough for a theatrical release,” right? Wrong. Never doubt that some truly amazing Horror offerings are never shown on big screens.
A film that proves this point in spades is 2009’s The Hills Run Red, a meta-movie directed by Dave Parker (The Dead Hate the Living!) and written by David J. Schow (who also penned A Nightmare on Elm Street 5, Leatherface: The Texas Chainsaw Massacre III, and The Crow). This major studio-production took over 2 years to make. Whether it had one or not, The Hills Run Red deserved a theatrical release and, in my opinion, could have been huge.
Don’t get me wrong: High art it ain’t, nor is it completely original. But The Hills Run Red is everything gore-hounds want in a film, a reinvention and revitalization of 80’s era Slasher films.
Read my review after the jump:
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