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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. Read the rest over at HorrorSquad! Filed under: Horror, Home Entertainment Permalink | Email this | Comments

Author: NakedBrotha2007 Tags: lost boys the tribe movie home video trailer 2008 warner bros entertainment warner-premiere tad-hilgenbrink autumn-reeser corey-feldman vampires direct-to-video sequel horror comedy thriller Posted: 11 July 2009 Rating: 0.0 Votes: 0

Filed under: Horror, Warner Brothers, Home Entertainment, Remakes and Sequels If it had any other title, Lost Boys 2: The Tribe wouldn't provoke any outrage. But if it had any other title, would anybody give it a second glance? I harbored a ray of hope, but it doesn't take very long to realize that Lost Boys 2: The Tribe was always destined for the direct to video garbage heap. The 1987 original, photographed by the superbly talented Michael Chapman, was super stylish and jammed with juicy performances, cynical wisecracks, and post-modern tweaks to cinematic vampire legends. The best idea was placing fanged lords of the night in a sun-soaked California coastal town populated by aging hippies and freaks, not to mention a boardwalk, rollercoaster, and great, crashing surf. As a budget sequel, LB2 has to make do with less attractive, less flattering video imagery and the rockier Canadian coastline standing in for "Santa Carla" * (actually, Santa Cruz, California). The script by Hans Rodionoff makes some half-hearted attempts to tie in the original (antlers and motorcycles, anyone?), but is bereft of any new twists of its own. Director P. J. Pesce makes certain to include the obligatory amount of gore required to justify the so-called "uncut" version, with notable attention to ripped throats and spilled intestines, along with bared body parts displayed by lovelies such as Moneca Delain. LB2 has precisely two good moments -- one in the opening scene, provided by Tom Savini -- stranded within 94 minutes of running time.Continue reading Horror Sequel Outrage: 'Lost Boys 2: The Tribe' Permalink | Email this | Comments