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Four months ago I attended an advance screening of The Hills Run Red, a Warner Premier straight-to-DVD film about a group of college kids in search of a cult director and his long-lost horror film of the same name. Long story short, I really didn't like it, but I found myself in the minority, so in the interest of fairness, I spent the next couple of months asking colleagues who saw it why they seemed to like it so much.

Because I never really got an answer that satisfied my lingering questions and criticisms, I decided to watch it again. And while the film's premise – obsessive horror geeks rediscovering a lost horror classic that was banished for being too intense – is a really, really terrific one, director Dave Parker's latest effort is not equal to that premise. A mess of half-considered genre conventions with only a few compelling ideas to connect them, The Hills Run Red is an example of the kind of horror movie that gets a pass from forgiving genre fans, but its clumsy, obvious execution will otherwise not likely entertain (much less scare) anyone else.

Tad Hilgenbrink plays Tyler, a horror fan who is obsessed with The Hills Run Red, an infamous movie directed by reclusive filmmaker Wilson Wyler Concannon (William Sadler) that was removed from circulation because it was branded too intense by the powers that be.

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Sam Raimi's Ghost House Pictures and Warner Home Video have announced a new project that sounds pretty cool ... if you're a hardcore horror geek, of course. Production is already underway in Romania on The Hills Run Red, which according to The Hollywood Reporter, is about "a film fanatic whose obsession with finding a complete print of an infamous slasher movie leads him and two friends into the backwoods where the film was shot. They realize too late that filming never ended -- and now they must survive a nightmarish onslaught or become part of the movie forever."

OK, so it sounds like a pretty conventional horror plot in some ways, but here's some good news: The flick will star not only character actor extraordinaire Bill Sadler -- but also the mega-mega-sexy Sophie Monk. (Oh, and Tad Hilgenbrink, soon to be seen in The Lost Boys: The Tribe.) The Hills screenplay comes from award-winning genre specialist David J. Schow, which I consider pretty good news, and the multi-hatted Dave Parker will direct. For more on this project, check out the THR article right here -- and Bloody-Disgusting's initial report from last April right here. And to see why I just drooled over Sophie Monk, click right here.

(Thanks to this site for the awesome Bill Sadler pic. Oh, he's the actor who played Death in Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey? "Damn right!")