The Hills Run Red (2009) poster
2009 · horror · thriller · slasher

The Hills Run Red

Directed by Dave Parker1h 21m2009
ElsewhereIMDb5.411kRT50%
  • heavy
  • kinetic
  • extreme
  • bleak
  • cold
Movie DNA

Heavy, breathless, extreme horror / thriller, grounded in texture. Nihilistic, intimate, cold, hand-scored across twelve axes of taste.

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A group of young horror fans go searching for a film that mysteriously vanished years ago but instead find that the demented killer from the movie is real, and he's thrilled to meet fans who will die gruesomely for his art.

Our read · The Hills Run Red (2009) reads as a heavy, breathless, grounded horror · thriller · slasher entry — extreme in intensity, intimate in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic in outlook. Hand-scored on twelve axes of taste — mood, pacing, weirdness, hope, stakes, humour, reality, density, warmth, auteur, intensity, and era — with a derived palette drawn from its dominant cinematography.

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You crave meta slasher nastiness where fandom curdles into something truly sick.

ends unsettlingit will wreck youbuilds to a gut-punch finalegrips by minute 22attention 4/5breezes by
Date nightWith friendsSoloWith parentsKids around
Heads-upexplicit sexnuditysexual violencegraphic violencegorechild peril

Skip it tonightYou cannot stomach rape, incest subtext, or splatter that punishes its audience.

DNA · twelve axes

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Each axis is hand-scored — not derived from votes or genre averages. The marker shows where this film sits; the gradient fill uses the film's own cinematography palette.

Mood · HeavyCosy
Pacing · Slow-burnKinetic
Intensity · GentleExtreme
Weirdness · ConventionalSurreal
Hope · NihilisticRedemptive
Stakes · IntimateEpic
Humour · NoneBroad
Reality · GroundedFantastical
Density · SparseTwisty
Warmth · ColdTender
Auteur · TransparentSignature
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