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The original was posted on /r/redlettermedia by /u/elektroskansen on 2025-10-08 15:37:58+00:00.

Gary Michael Hilton, also known as The National Forest Serial Killer is most famous as a convicted killer that got sentenced for commiting 4 murders in the late months of 2007. He stalked the woods for hiking people, and used his victims’ credit cards to sustain himself. At least one time he kidnapped a young woman and spend a few horrifying days camping with her, driving from one ATM to another and hiking the woods inbetween, maintaining that she had “a good time” with him before he ended her life. Here’s a wikipedia article about him: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_Hilton

But what I discovered watching one of these exploitative “documentaries” about his endeavors is that back in the 90’s he made a low budget horror movie for which he is credited as a screenwriter: “Deadly Run”: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0181447/

It tells a story of a dude that owns a cabin deep in the woods; he visits it with abducted women that are then released into the wild for him to hunt. Haven’t seen the movie yet, it sounds like a rip-off of “The Most Dangerous Game” (a book that was famously beloved by the likes of The Zodiac Killer and some other famous criminals). But I checked the movie out on IMDB and lo and behold: the director (one of two, apparently) is our little RLM mascot, Donald Farmer…!

Of course, Gary Hilton wasn’t a murderer yet at that point (or, well, he is a suspect in cases dating as far back as 1997, so, who knows really…) so it’s maybe not as sensational as I might’ve made it in the title of the post… But it is still a weird piece of trivia in my opinion. Especially seeing that it was the one and only script Gary Hilton ever written and it somewhat resembles the real-life crimes that he later commited.

So, yeah. Donald Farmer made a movie written by a dude that would turn out an actual serial killer later on…!