The Hills Run Red Page #2

and you're gonna help me.

It's time.

I know you want me to tell you

more about the movie...

but it's a little fuzzy.

I wasn't in much of it.

Did you ever see

the whole thing?

Not all of it, no.

Your father

wouldn't show it to you?

He said it wasn't for kids.

All right, cool.

- That's enough for now.

- Okay. Whew.

Let's roll.

All that stuff you said,

is that true?

You owe me a fight.

Serina' it was my only chance.

I had to grab her.

She was strung out and f***ed up

and far from home.

- Did you f*** her far from home?

- Trust me, it wasn't romantic.

You disappear for days,

and shack up with a hot blonde...

and I'm supposed to be okay

with it?

Look, if I didn't give a damn

about you, I wouldn't be here.

- No one's forcing you.

- I'm forcing me.

Lalo and I talked about it.

Yo, let's eat some road,

grind some tape.

Guess I missed that meeting.

Sh*t, man. This place is like

the Hollows or the pines.

It's like 100 miles across,

and there isn't any town

called Scargill anywhere.

- It's not on the map.

- How long since you've been there?

It's sorta deep in.

Don't leave the city.

- Thank you, voice of doom.

- No, no, no.

Seriously, the problem with all

these goddamn scary movies...

is they ignore a basic fact

of civilization, right?

The characters always head out

to the middle of nowhere. Right?

Suddenly their cars' their cell phones,

their technology can't save them...

and nobody ever brings

a f***ing gun.

- Ha-ha-ha.

- Yeah?

Then suddenly these ass-loving

rednecks come out of nowhere...

- and f*** them all to death.

- Ha-ha-ha.

No, everything would've been okay if

they just didn't leave the city. Ever.

I think daddy burned her

with cigarettes.

The daddy whose brilliant

reputation you wanna resurrect?

- No, he's dead.

- What?

Tyler

Did you ever see the whole thing?

- She said he died like 10 years ago.

- Then, where we going?

To his final resting place.

The house.

Houses have attics.

And garages and cellars.

- Maybe a film vault.

- There you go.

What is it?

Let's get you back to the car,

all right?

What happened?

What did you see?

He knows. Right?

I mean' how could he not know?

Are you kidding?

He only sees what he needs to see.

Yeah.

Lalo, it was a one-time thing.

It stays in Vegas.

- That's the way it's gotta be.

- Hey, that's cool.

- That's what I thought it was.

- Good.

ANNOUNCER:
So drop us a line

anytime at 8PO-99309...

and we'll get it on,

like this one.

Did your dad keep the film

at the house?

Daddy kept all his movie stuff

at the house.

Really?

- Hey, does this place

look familiar to you?

F*** me sideways.

- Let's see

if these people know anything.

That fella, that director'

he was crazy as sin.

Used real blood too,

from what I heard.

Actually went to

the slaughterhouse to get that.

I mean, that's real blood

you're looking at there.

Hey, I remember you.

Such a little sweet pea, riding

around in your daddy's fancy car.

What car?

A Ford, I think.

Daddy used to take

the film places and show it.

It was on big reels.

Hey. Sonny, you saw that movie,

didn't you? Come talk to these folks.

- So you actually saw

The Hills Run Red?

Yup.

I saw that movie at the drive-in.

The Orbit.

Uh...

- You have to say more, Sonny.

- Oh, right. Yeah, yeah. I...

Well, that movie was way f***ed up.

Can I... Can I say... f***ed up?

- Yeah, go crazy.

- Okay.

Yeah, well, when I first seen

that movie at the drive in,

uh... you know, because them scary movies

is really good for making out and sh*t.

I had this chopped Charger, see?

It was mostly gray primer

and fender fill, but...

Cut, cut, cut.

Yeah, they shut that drive-in

not long after that movie played...

because some guy got murdered.

- Okay. Hold on. Reset, all right?

- Yeah.

- Go ahead.

- Let's start again.

Okay. I had this chopped Charger.

It was mostly gray primer

and fender fill...

but the headers were

absolutely f***ing fantastic.

Projects like this,

you have to trust your gut.

I've got the girl.

She knows where we're going.

And part of the mystery

is the fun of it.

You gotta just, like, go.

Who knows what you'll discover?

- Do you remember

who played Babyface in the movie?

Tyler, give her a break.

It was some guy from the hills.

He had trouble remembering

what to do when daddy told him.

Like... uh, retarded?

Slow. You'd say slow.

DaddY said if You pretend well enough,

it was as good as the real thing.

So I knew it was pretend.

MostLy.

So you don't blame the movie

for getting all...?

Screwed up?

Everybody's all screwed up,

aren't they?

I'm not some traumatized waif.

I made it through.

Wow. That's Nietzschean.

- Yeah.

- Heh, what?

What does not destroy me,

makes me stronger...

- No? No takers? All right.

- No, I wouldn't bet on that.

ALEXA:

I quite like it.

Somewhere,

in this overgrown wilderness...

is the house where

Wilson Wyler Concannon began filming...

his now legendary independent film,

The Hills Run Red.

There's nothing but...

Nothing for a hundred miles.

Welcome to the middle of nowhere.

- Ooh.

- F*** you.

All right,

let's mount up, people.

- Ahem. You don't have to, I've got it.

- I'm not a cripple. I can help. Heh.

Okay. You got the tripod, then.

- Think the car's gonna be okay?

- Yeah, who's gonna see it?

There's nobody here.

Well, anything weird happens,

think of the number three.

Sh*t.

Two in the chest,

one in the head.

Dude, put that away. I didn't think

you were serious about that.

Look where we are.

All right,

what else you got in there?

Flares. For when the flashlights

inevitably don't work.

Like the cell phones, Mr. paranoid?

Ha. Five bars, going strong.

Sh*t, that's better than the city.

So, Tyler, he's your guy?

It's kind of complicated.

Complicated because of Lalo?

Complicated-

Because it's complicated.

Well, when Tyler found me,

I was really messed up, he helped me.

You're lucky.

He's a really good guy.

Yeah, I am. He is a good guy.

Hey, guys.

It's that way.

- All right, let's go.

- Down here.

What'd you think

they're talking about up there?

- Us. Heh, heh.

- God, I hope not.

- Tyler.

- What?

- What is it?

- Look.

Is that...

- is that a rib cage?

- Oh, God.

- F***.

- Tyler, don't touch it.

- Gross.

- Why is there a hook in it?

Lalo, look at the trees.

So?

It's the tree scene.

LALO:

All the damned trees look alike.

You wanna shoot it?

- Maybe we should stop. Let's go back.

- No way.

Hey, come on.

We're in this deep already, right?

It's just these woods.

This place.

We should keep going.

So, what's the story

on Babyface? The legend?

- Was he deformed?

- He was slow.

His mother was raped by this

feral mountain man, a trapper.

So his father cut off his face

and locked him in the cellar...

so that he wasn't reminded of it.

The boy tried to sew

his own face on.

But he couldn't do it.

Oh, great. What, what?

Another abused child...

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