{"id":4869,"date":"2009-06-14T11:05:37","date_gmt":"2009-06-14T09:05:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/?p=4869"},"modified":"2015-05-06T16:41:40","modified_gmt":"2015-05-06T14:41:40","slug":"the-hills-run-red-screens-today-at-siff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/2009\/06\/the-hills-run-red-screens-today-at-siff\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;The Hills Run Red&#8221; screens today at SIFF"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At the Seattle International Film Festival &#8220;The Hills Run Red&#8221; screens at the Egyptian Theater today at 6:30 p.m. This information can be found in the article <a href=\"http:\/\/seattlest.com\/2009\/06\/09\/the_horror_the_horror_an_interview.php\" target=\"_blank\">The Horror, the Horror: A Talk with Robert Meyer Burnett<\/a> published on Seattlest.com.<\/p>\n<p>In this horror movie William Sadler stars alongside Sophie Monk, Tad Hilgenbrink, Alex Wyndham, Janet Montgomery. <\/p>\n<p>Find here some snippets from the text, but make sure to read it in full!<\/p>\n<blockquote>[&#8230;] The Hills Run Red, meantime, marks Robert Meyer Burnett\u2019s first full-fledged feature film credit as a producer. He\u2019s seen the movie through from the ground up (&#8220;I was there every step of the way&#8221;) and he\u2019s proud of the end result. &#8220;Sure, it\u2019s a low-budget meta-slasher movie,&#8221; he says with a chuckle, &#8220;but I like what we\u2019ve done.&#8221; Part of his pleasure with The Hills Run Red comes from working with old friends\u2014screenwriter David Schow (most famous for scripting The Crow) befriended Burnett having worked on the script for Leatherface in 1989, and Hills director Dave Parker and the producer bonded in the trenches at indie horror studio Full Moon Pictures in the early nineties.<\/p>\n<p>The production also benefitted from the services of one of American cinema\u2019s best character actors, <strong>William Sadler<\/strong> of Shawshank Redemption fame, for a key role. &#8220;He was really our first and only choice to play the part,&#8221; Burnett says, &#8220;and when he shows up in the movie, everything that comes out of his mouth is hilarious. His performance is spot-on.&#8221; The producer confesses that he and Parker grilled Sadler with geeky fervor on his extensive filmography, and that the actor was &#8220;tickled&#8221; by their ardent interest. &#8220;Once you allow your Inner Geek flag to fly, it\u2019s OK. He\u2019s already there working for you anyway!&#8221; he notes with amusement.<\/p>\n[&#8230;]\n<p>Robert Meyer Burnett\u2019s blood-soaked baby will see its world premiere in front of a paying audience at SIFF, but a preview screening for the horror press, and a panel at L.A\u2019s Fangoria Weekend of Horrors Convention, have already generated a lot of buzz. &#8220;At the Fango Convention we showed the trailer, and then we showed a clip: People went bananas!&#8221; he notes with pride. &#8220;The first half of our movie is all about setting up what you think are old clich\u00e9 tropes; and the last half is about going against those tropes.&#8221; And he\u2019s sure that SIFF viewers will relish that twist. &#8220;Anyone who\u2019s seen a lot of horror movies gets it. By the end [of the preview], the audience was screaming, hooting, and hollering. So it works. And that\u2019s really gratifying.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>Related News:<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"2009\/05\/william-sadler-the-hills-run-red-official-still\/\">William Sadler &#8211; \u201cThe Hills Run Red\u201d official still<\/a>, May 28th, 2009<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At the Seattle International Film Festival &#8220;The Hills Run Red&#8221; screens at the Egyptian Theater today at 6:30 p.m. This<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_container_layout":"default_layout","colormag_page_sidebar_layout":"default_layout","footnotes":""},"categories":[3,2378],"tags":[1645,14],"coauthors":[2262],"class_list":["post-4869","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-leading","category-william-sadler","tag-the-hills-run-red","tag-william-sadler"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4869","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4869"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4869\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5107,"href":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4869\/revisions\/5107"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4869"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=4869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}