''Staunton Hill'' is a 2009 American

horror film Horror is a film genre that seeks to elicit fear or disgust in its audience for entertainment purposes. Horror films often explore dark subject matter and may deal with transgressive topics or themes. Broad elements include monsters, apoca ...

directed by G. Cameron Romero and starring

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, Cristen Coppen, David Rountree, Kiko Ellsworth, Christine Carlo, Paula Rhodes, B.J. Hendricks, Charlie Bodin,

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, and Sherry Weston. It was filmed in only six weeks.

Plot

In 1969, a group of friends travel through

Virginia Virginia, officially the Commonwealth of Virginia, is a state in the Mid-Atlantic and Southeastern regions of the United States, between the Atlantic Coast and the Appalachian Mountains. The geography and climate of the Commonwealth ar ...

on their way to

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to participate in protest rallies. They hitchhike to a small rural community and meet Quintin who offers them a ride. While on the backroads, Quintin's truck overheats and they are forced to walk. As night falls they reach a farm and spend the night in a barn. The next morning, they meet the farm's inhabitants and the young travelers get the terrible feeling that something is wrong in Staunton Hill. The winds of change are blowing across the United States. But on a lonely family property in the Virginia highlands, a maelstrom of evil has been gathering for years. For a group of friends travelling to a rally in D.C., a detour to Staunton's horror farmhouse will tear their young lives apart forever. The sense of impending doom is growing. The clan's horrific harvest is about to begin.

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* * {{2000s-horror-film-stub 2009 films 2000s American films 2000s English-language films 2000s slasher films American slasher films American splatter films Backwoods slasher films Films set on farms Films scored by Jesper Kyd