2/5 What a Mess
  by Veronica M. Davis (South Euclid, OH USA)
The movie is a complete, hot, stinky mess, and yes the ending positioned the movie for a sequel.

3/5 LIFE IMITATING ART?
  by Michael Butts (Martinsburg, WV USA)
BACK IN THE 80S A MOVIE CALLED THE HILLS RUN RED BECAME A LEGEND BECAUSE THE CAST AND DIRECTOR VANISHED. AN OBSESSIVE HORROR BUFF IN 2009 WANTS TO FIND A PRINT OF THE MOVIE AND POSSIBLY WHAT HAPPENED. HE TRACKS DOWN THE DIRECTOR'S DAUGHTER WHO MANAGED TO SURVIVE THE EVENTS. AFTER FINDING HER AS A TRIPPED OUT STRIPPER, HE KIDNAPS HER TO DRY HER OUT AND THEN TAKES HER ALONG WITH HIS TWO-TIMING GIRLFRIEND AND BEST FRIEND TO THE PLACE WHERE THE MOVIE WAS FILMED...AND YOU CAN GUESS WHAT HAPPENS.
THE FILM DESERVES AN E FOR EFFORTS TO BE DIFFERENT, BUT ONCE IT KICKS IN GEAR, IT JUST GOES OVER THE TOP GIVING WILLIAM SADLER LICENSE TO CHEW UP THE SCENERY. LEAD SOPHIE MONK IS TERRIBLE AND THE MOVIE BECOMES JUST ANOTHER BLOODSOAKED TORTURE FLICK. ALSO WATCH THE END CREDITS...THE MOVIE'S FINAL TRICK IS STILL TO COME.

3/5 pretty cool flick
  by SlasherLover (New York)
ill keep it simple, liked the gore, story was decent, and it held my interest. good late night slasher movie!

3/5 Better Than A Remake!
  by Brian Lueth (Chicago, IL United States)
We've seen the whole "film within a film" concept done before and some, like John Carpenter's "Cigarette Burns," have been done better but The Hills Run Red has its own gory, sexy charm that really seems to be absent from slasher fare these days. It's by no means a perfect film, some of the acting is uneven and the characters are all unlikable, but it does deliver on thrills, chills and gruesome blood spills without resorting to black comedy or slapstick. It did occasionally walk the line between "deconstruction" and straightforward horror but, thankfully, it ended up sticking to the latter for the most part. We don't need to be told why horror doesn't always make sense, thanks.

As any good horror fan knows, a successful slasher film must make good on three things: a visually exciting killer, imaginative and messy kills and copious amounts of unnecessary and often times exploitative nudity. The Hills Run Red provides all of these with a little extra to spare; Babyface is one of the coolest slashers since Leslie Vernon, Victor Crowley and Chrome Skull and pop star Sophie Monk (Pearlblossom) scorches onscreen with an absolutely gorgeous body.

From The Dead Hate The Living! to The Hills Run Red? Dave Parker has indeed shown the horror community that with the right script and budget behind him he's got the stones to make some killer cinema, color me impressed. This almost makes up for his part in House of the Dead...almost.

If you're hankering for a direct-to-DVD horror film (from the WB no less!) with spine, The Hills Run Red is no classic but it does indeed satisfy. Rumor has it that this flick saw cuts to make an R-rating, if there were they weren't noticeable at all because this film was surprisingly adult in comparison to what we normally get. I'd love to of seen an uncut version of this film, or at the very least Dave Parker's vision of this film, sans studio limitations. We get what we get though and, in this case, what we received was something not altogether bad though truthfully a bit forgettable in the long run.

3/5 Far from perfect, but not without its merits.
  by Robert Thompson (Under Your Bed!!!)
This is a horror film filled to the brim with generic slasher cliches but centers around an interesting plot that should at the very least hold a horror fans' attention once through. The premise is an interesting one, a horror fan decides to track down a copy of a long forgotten film that was supposedly the scariest of all time and along the way he runs into some horrific problems of his own not to mention the rather large albeit somewhat foreseeable twist at the end. As interesting as this premise is, I can see why nobody decided to use it before because this film was a bit on the short side and still took it about as far as it could go. Acting is a mixed bag here, it's mostly bad with the exception of the director and his daughter, although the daughter was still highly inconsistent with only small moments of competence. I liked the respectful nods to the slasher and grindhosue genres of horror that are scattered throughout the film and the kills and gore and such look admittedly good for such a low budget title. All in all this film really isn't good in any sense of the word, but there's still something about it that I found to be enjoyable. Don't ask me why I liked this film, because all signs point to the fact that's it just another mediocre slasher, but there is something buried deep in there that gives it a feeling of its own and makes it a decent watch.