The Hills Have Eyes

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The Hills Have Eyes

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The Hills Have Eyes

Aaron Stanford, Kathleen Quinlan, Vinessa Shaw, Emilie De Ravin, Dan Byrd

"The Hills Have Eyes" is the story of a family road trip that goes terrifyingly awry when the travelers become stranded in a government atomic testing zone. Miles from nowhere, the Carters soon realiz...( read more  read more... )e the seemingly uninhabited wasteland is actually the breeding ground of a blood-thirsty mutant family. And, they are the prey.

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  • ironclad1609
    August 9, 2009
    ironclad1609
    One of the better horror remakes of recent years, for several reasons: the title sequence is wonderfully disturbing, some of the scenes are really exciting and scary, the acting performances are convincing and their characters not entirely as stupid as in other films of the genre...( read more) and actually fight back. Also: although the political dimensions of a horror film and the criticism on atom testing should not be taken too seriously, it is pretty funny that the Republican gun loving dad does not have quite the same success as his democrat son in law. The violence is pretty graphic and some scenes rather sickening, but at least the film is not as easy to figure out as many others. Hero of the day: the second German shepherd.
  • garyX
    January 6, 2009
    garyX
    A family driving through the desert in their mobile home are hijacked by a group of mutants living amongst the ruins of a nuclear test site. I hated the original version of this movie with a passion. It seemed to me to be a load of gratuitous ugliness aimed at voyeuristic sadists...( read more). I was willing to give this a go however because I was quite impressed with the remake of Texas Chainsaw Massacre, and generally try to keep an open mind (except where it comes to musicals of course.) On the plus side, it actually bothered to make the victims 3 dimensional characters, and they were in fact quite a likable, mildly dysfunctional bunch; pretty much like an ordinary family. It also avoids visual gimmickry, and the dreaded shaky cam, which I was thankful for. And it kept my attention til the end. On the other hand, it ticks a lot of the "crap horror movie" boxes; namely it contains the lines "Why are you doing this to us?" and "I'm so scared". It has a crap, barely sketched out back story to excuse the carnage. It has mysterious shapes running around in the foreground/background. It shows far more ugly violence than it needs in order to facilitate the story. And the soundtrack is one of the worst I've EVER heard (it actually has a rousing, cheerleading crescendo while someone is having their head bashed in and being blown apart by a shotgun as if you're suppose to applaud the fact.) I'm going to have to sit on the fence about this one because I know there is a market for it and it does have some cinematic merit in that it's directed and acted reasonably well (which is more than I can say for the original.) However I am certainly not part of it as I find it very hard to enjoy watching people being brutalized and sexually abused, and don't really feel like cheering when someone has an axe buried repeatedly in their spine; no matter how much they "deserved" it.
  • pier007
    July 18, 2008
    pier007
    If all the savagery and explicit carnage had a good story to support it, I'd probably have a little respect for this inane, purposeless trash.
  • Showrogan
    June 16, 2008
    Showrogan
    And I quote...
    It always begins with the Wrong Gas Station...in real life, most gas stations are clean...ish, well-lighted places, where you can buy not only gasoline but groceries, clothes and electronic devices. In horror movies, however, the only gas station in the world is l...( read more)ocated on a desolate road in the middle of 'nowheresville' and it's staffed by a degenerate who shuffles out in his classic coveralls and looks like he hasn't showered since the summer of 69'...
    The clean-cut heroes of the movie, be they a family on vacation, newlyweds, college students or backpackers, all have one thing in common. They believe everything this man tells them, especially when he suggests they turn left on the unpaved road for a shortcut. Does it ever occur to them that in this desolate wasteland with only one main road, it must be the road to stay on if they ever again want to use their cell phones!?...
    No. It does not. ;/ They take the fatal detour, and find themselves the prey of demented mutant incestuous cannibalistic gnashing slobberers, who carry pickaxes the way other people carry umbrellas. They occupy junkyards, towns made entirely of wax, nuclear waste zones and Motel Hell...
    But that's what it's always about isn't it... ;] if they bothered to think for a minute what would we watch the movie for...? the term cult classic comes to mind, but in this case it's not quite a good one...
  • StaisilD
    April 7, 2008
    StaisilD
    Shocking. Disturbing. At times hard to watch. But these terms also accurately describe this brutally vicious upgrade on Wes Craven's 1977 low-budget horror classic. The movie begins with the showing of original footage from some of the 311 nuclear tests that were carried out by t...( read more)he U.S. government in the desert of New Mexico during the years 1945-1992. The government had ordered the local residents to move so they wouldn't get hurt by the atomic tests. But some of the residents (miners) refused to leave their homes, and were exposed to dangerous levels of radiation. The miners went to the mines and survived, but their newborn children were genetically altered. The children are now adults, and to survive in the desert, they murder and rob tourists going through the desert. They are not only insane murderers, but they have become blood-thirsty cannibals. The Carter family has an accident in the desert, and they are about to become the next victims. However, Big Bob Carter, (Ted Levine), a retired police detective, isn't going to let that happen. This is a shockingly faithful remake in some ways and an entirely new story in others. Fans of the original film will be happy to see that the storyline does not deviate very far from Wes Craven's original tale, but fans of Aja will be quite pleased with the gratuitous gore on display as pick-axes, baseball bats and even po'd German shepherds are used as weapons. The film is very bloody and tense with a grim, filthy atmosphere; you can almost smell the rotting body parts. Everyone turns in great performances despite some moments of clunky dialog. The desolate scenery is a character all its own; hellishly hot and red, littered with vultures and crows. The mutant and gore effects by Howard Berger and Gregory Nicotero are excellent and the photography of the desert landscape is great. A must-see for fans of intense survival horror.
  • classyfella
    January 5, 2010
    classyfella
    The gore and blood rocks! Throughout the whole film, terror will send shivers down your spine, and those damn mutants are creepy. All in all, I reckon this film is a winner.
  • shashankbhargava1990
    December 31, 2009
    shashankbhargava1990
    It gets ur pulse racing!
  • elesterw
    December 30, 2009
    elesterw
    In what type of horror movie does almost everybody escape near death at least once? This was a fail.
  • celticwoman0829
    December 29, 2009
    celticwoman0829
    This movie was scary..but the old one was a little better.
  • Marischa2
    December 23, 2009
    Marischa2
    this movie was brutal!! better than no 2.
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