Fifteen years after the notorious massacre tied to the lost horror film The Hills Run Red, the legend of Babyface has become the stuff of internet myth — a viral urban legend whispered across forums, dissected by horror fans, and buried in “true crime” podcasts. But the truth is more horrifying than fiction. When indie horror documentarian Cassidy Morrow discovers a damaged reel of the original unfinished film in her late father’s storage unit, she becomes obsessed with completing the story — and uncovering what really happened to the missing cast and crew. Her father, it turns out, was one of them — a production assistant who mysteriously vanished in the woods near the film's original shooting location.
Together with a ragtag crew of film students and horror fanatics, Cassidy sets out to return to the blood-soaked woods where it all began, vowing to finish what director Wilson Wyler Concannon started — and record it all for her new docu-horror feature, The Hills Still Bleed. What starts as a passion project quickly spirals into a nightmare. The crew finds themselves stalked by a new iteration of Babyface — more brutal, more intelligent, and disturbingly self-aware. This Babyface doesn’t just kill — he stages every murder like a cinematic masterpiece, complete with lighting setups, camera angles, and dramatic sound cues. Each death is a scene. Each victim a character in a script no one agreed to. Cassidy soon discovers that someone has been keeping the legend alive — someone who believes the original film was a prophecy, not fiction. The cult of Concannon lives on in the shadows, and they want Cassidy to complete the masterpiece... or die trying.
As paranoia sets in and her team is picked off one by one in increasingly gruesome, meta-theatrical kills, Cassidy must confront the blurred lines between horror and reality. Is Babyface just a masked psychopath — or something far worse, born from cinema itself? In a chilling third act twist, Cassidy discovers the true horror: she is not the director of this story — she’s the final girl written into a script that has been in motion since before she was born.
The climax takes place inside a reconstructed soundstage hidden deep in the woods — a grotesque film set built from real corpses, twisted props, and broken dreams. In a desperate bid for survival, Cassidy must rewrite the ending in blood. The Hills Run Red 2 is a brutal, self-aware slasher that expands the mythology of the original while satirizing horror fandom, filmmaking obsession, and the price of legacy. It’s a story about unfinished films, inherited nightmares, and the horrifying idea that some movies should never be completed.
