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The Hills Have Eyes 2 (Unrated Edition)
Starring: Daniella Alonso , Michael McMillian , Jessica Stroup , Jacob Vargas , and Lee Thompson Young
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ASIN: B00005JPLQ
Release Date: 2007-07-17 |
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For die-hard horror fans, The Hills Have Eyes 2 is a knock-off remake/sequel that delivers a few queasy thrills. While it represents a minor improvement over the 1985 sequel to Wes Craven's 1977 original (you know, the one with the notorious "canine flashback"), it's yet another cookie-cutter exercise in death by stupidity, focusing its Aliens-in-the-desert plot on a scrappy, ill-tempered unit of National Guard soldiers who've been sent to investigate the first remake's hellish aftermath in the bomb-tested wastelands of Nevada. (Like its far-superior 2006 predecessor, this sequel was shot on location in Morocco.) Unfortunately these bickering recruits are an embarrassment to their inauthentic-looking uniforms, and their reckless inexperience (not to mention a tired, uninspired screenplay by Craven and his son Jonathan) makes them easy targets for the ravenous, irradiated mutants who dwell within a treacherous network of tunnels and caves. As the generically good-looking cast is reduced to a few terrorized survivors (which somehow doesn't stop costars Jessica Stroup and Daniella Alonso from looking like fashion models), music-video director Martin Weisz switches to auto-pilot in his dubious feature debut, serving up a basically plotless succession of grisly makeup FX by Howard Berger and his crack team of gore-mongers. The gross-out factor is sufficiently amusing (including one soldier pulled through a hole with one leg in the totally wrong direction), but even devoted horror connoisseurs will have to admit this is pretty lame stuff. --Jeff Shannon
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National Guard soldiers stop at a New Mexican outpost only to find the isolated camp mysteriously deserted. Little do they know that these are the very hills that the ill-fated Carter family once visited, and that a tribe of cannibalistic mutants lies in wait.
Customer Reviews:
A Let Down...........2007-07-09
Unfortunately the bad reviews this movie received from the critics are correct,it's a poor effort. It seems as though the makers of this movie just rushed the whole project through in a response to the success of the very good remake of the original film. Real bad acting starts things off (the sergeant was particularly bad!)and hardly improves throughout the duration. The story could and should of been so much better too. In short, a very poor horror movie, give it a miss.
Maybe some people not like it, no harm to give it a try !.......2007-07-03
Same story of how people fight for their own lives in desperate situation. It is still a relief and comfort everytime watching a mutant is wasted by the National Guard trainees. It really cheers people up somehow, seeing some of these trainees eventually make it by their own will !
Five stars for Yecch factor!.......2007-06-20
I never got to see the first remake, so maybe that helped me enjoy this second one more. And a guy jumping up out of the porta-potty? No, I wasn't expecting that! Other than that, nothing terribly unusual here (o.k. maybe the mutant waving bye-bye with the guy's severed arm), but I am looking forward to the "unrated" DVD and the bonus features.
Unbelieably lame.......2007-06-07
I wasn't crazy about hearing of a re-make of Wes Craven's cult classic The Hills Have Eyes, but I was pleasently surprised with Alexandre Aja's re-imagining of Craven's bloody tale. Now we have The Hills Have Eyes 2 (which actually isn't the first time; Craven originally did a sequel to his original film way back when first) is here, and everything that made the first re-make so good is thrown out the window as this film succumbs to every cliche idea that plagues a horror movie. This time around, a group of National Guard trainees are in the Nevada desert on a training exercise, and they run afoul of the mutant cannibal family who have only one thing on their mind. Despite some nifty gore effects, the rest of the film features horrible acting (along with the fact we have to believe that these beautiful people are actually soldiers), predictable scares, a boring story (courtesy of Craven himself along with his son Jonathan), and uninspired direction. What made the first re-make so good was Aja's pacing and atmosphere that anything could happen at anytime, and you just didn't know what to expect next if you'd never seen the original film in the first place. As I said, this sequel throws everything good about the re-make out the window, and the end result is an unbelievably lame horror movie that should have been straight to DVD fodder instead. Avoid.
Poor.......2007-05-29
Low-budget - only a single set. An abandoned mine-shaft. It must have been hard work...
Average customer rating:
- Better than I thought it would be!
- KNB = 5 Stars, Film = 3.5 Stars
- VERY good remake
- WORST REMAKE EVER!
- garbage
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The Hills Have Eyes (Unrated Edition)
Starring: Aaron Stanford , Kathleen Quinlan , Vinessa Shaw , Emilie de Ravin , and Dan Byrd
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ASIN: B000FAOC2W
Release Date: 2006-06-20 |
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Boasting an upgrade in production values, The Hills Have Eyes should please new-generation horror fans without offending devotees of Wes Craven's original version from 1977. There's still something to be said for the gritty shock value of Craven's low-budget original, made at a time when horror had been relegated to the pop-cultural ghetto, mostly below the radar of major Hollywood studios. With the box-office resurgence of horror in the new millennium--and the genre's lucrative popularity among the all-important teen demographic--it's only fitting that French director Alexandre Aja should follow up his international hit High Tension with a similarly brutal American debut to boost his Hollywood street-cred. Working with cowriter Gregory Levasseur, Aja remains surprisingly faithful to Craven's original, beginning with a bickering family that crashes their truck and trailer in the remote desert of New Mexico (actually filmed in Morocco), where they are subsequently terrorized, brutalized, and murdered by a freakish family of psychopaths, mutated by the lingering radiation from 331 nuclear bomb tests that were carried out during the 1950s and '60s. After several killings are carried out in memorably grisly fashion, it's left to the survivors to outsmart their disfigured tormentors, who are blessed with horrendous make-up (especially Robert Joy as freak leader "Lizard") but never quite as unsettling as the original film's horror icon, Michael Berryman. In Aja's hands, this newfangled Hills is all about savagery and de-evolution, reducing its characters to a state of pure, retaliatory terror. It's hardly satisfying in terms of storytelling (since there's hardly any story to tell), but as an exercise in sheer malevolence, it's undeniably effective.--Jeff Shannon
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Based on the original film by fright master Wes Craven, 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 zone. Miles from nowhere, the Carter family soon realizes the seemingly uninhabited wasteland is actually the breeding ground of a blood-thirsty mutant family...and they are the prey.
Customer Reviews:
Better than I thought it would be! .......2007-06-12
I haven't seen the original in years, but I remembered liking it. I was kind of skeptical about the remake of this movie but was pleasantly surprised. I thought it was a great remake. I liked the fact that it was gory, but not way overboard, such as Texas Chainsaw Massacre. Great ending! Overall, I loved this movie!
KNB = 5 Stars, Film = 3.5 Stars.......2007-06-09
I'll bypass telling you what you already know, that it's a remake and what the plot is. The film just finished, I'm now 10 minutes into the "making of" documentary, and I must say as a fan of the genre this picture is pretty awesome. I'm a BIG fan of KNB (The EFX Group) and they have outdone themselves on this one. This film is littered with remarkable effects, very gory and very realistic. The head shot, in the outhouse...WOW! The gore alone get's 5 stars in my stupid little opinion book of ratings. As always, when I watch horror films I tend to overlook the plot holes, etc and focus more on the gore, the scares, this film has loads of gore and a few scares as well.
It's selling on Amazon cheap, seriously consider picking it up!
VERY good remake.......2007-06-06
Given the task of remaking Craven's original The Hills Have Eyes, they had to cast someone great as the director. They chose Alexandre Aja, and what they came up with was one of the scariest movies of 2006, perhaps THE scariest. My review will be in two parts: the movie itself and the DVD special features.
The Carter family is off on a road trip through the desert. After stopping to get gas, the station attendant tells them of a pathway through the desert that will take them to the main highway and would cut a few hours off their time. The Carters accept, not knowing that the route they would travel would take them through an area that had undergone heavy nuclear testing by the US Army years earlier- or that a family of settlers had survived the testing, but with less than desirable results: they are all now bloodthirsty mutants. So the Carters move on- till a spikechain set in the road blows out all four of their tires. They settle in while Big Bob goes to get help. When night falls, the "eyes" open up- and that's where the fun begins.
This being the Unrated Director's Cut, alot of material made it in that wasn't in the original R-rated theater version: the fight between Doug (Aaron Stafford) and Pluto was extended and some of the other fight scenes were added; one scene that was taken out, however, was the scene of Pluto siphoning gas from the family Jeep. The DVD itself contains a behind the scenes look at the making of the movie called "Surviving the Hills", a music video for The Finalist's "Leave the Broken Hearts", and a few other extras like director and actor commentaries.
The Ring? The Grudge? Nah. Most "scary" movies can't touch The Hills Have Eyes with a 50-foot pole. Thanks, Aja, for making probably the scariest movie I have ever seen.
WORST REMAKE EVER!.......2007-06-04
This movie is no where near as good as the original. SAVE YOUR MONEY...... PERIOD!
garbage.......2007-05-22
Not a horror movie fan, but all was fine for me until the POINTLESS rape scene. Disturbing enough to me that i'm still thinking about it a few days later.
I don't even necessarily object to a rape scene being put in a film - but this disgusted me in that it was put in purely for those who get some sort of delight through watching a woman's suffering. I really, really womder about people who enjoy this kind of stuff.
Average customer rating:
- Absolute rubbish
- ok
- Generosity is a plus
- "Deliverance" with a Wes Craven twist
- A 70's horror classic!
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The Hills Have Eyes (2-Disc Edition)
Starring: Susan Lanier , Robert Houston , Martin Speer , Dee Wallace (II) , and Russ Grieve
Director: Wes Craven
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ASIN: B00009V7QM
Release Date: 2003-09-23 |
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Fans of Wes Craven's more recent major studio work (the Scream series) may be put off by the low-budget griminess of his sophomore feature, The Hills Have Eyes, but the director's longtime supporters and aficionados of '70s horror will be riveted by this unsettling culture clash fable. Originally titled Blood Relations, Hills strands a suburban family (which includes E.T.'s Dee Wallace Stone and future documentarian Robert Houston) in the desert and pits them against a clan of inbred cannibals. The resourceful killer brood quickly decimates the outsiders' numbers, forcing the survivors to fight back with equally savage means. Like Craven's debut, Last House on the Left, Hills is a relentlessly tense film which demolishes numerous societal taboos (fratricide and infant kidnapping, for starters), but it also delivers a powerful subtext about family and the fine line between civilization and animal behavior amidst the mayhem. Highly recommended for Craven completists and fans of no-holds-barred horror. --Paul Gaita
Customer Reviews:
Absolute rubbish.......2007-04-18
I never saw the remake of this. I watched the original recently. I have never seen such an amateurish, laughable mess. The acting is appalling and some of the cannibal performances are actually unintentionally hilarious. The blood and guts look very artificial. I dunno. I was lead to believe that this was a video nasty and quite shocking. I found it shocking alright...but not in the way that was intended.
Do yourself a favour and watch Deliverance instead. It is far far better
ok.......2007-02-21
this was not the best but remake was great i would say BUY THE REMAKE
Generosity is a plus.......2006-11-25
I'm watching the movie, Im at the beginning right now as I write, and I'll say this. The new one is waaay better. The old one is NOTHING like the new one. The villains look like regular people, they're not deformed or anything. Instead of the tires getting flat by the villains, the driver crashes the car because he didn't want to hit a RABBIT! lol, come on. I gave it an average 3 stars just because the new version is better, otherwise I probably would have given it 2. It didn't even have a very fascinating introduction as the new one did. I AM thankful that I at least get to see the original though. So that's a good thing.
"Deliverance" with a Wes Craven twist.......2006-11-22
The first half of this film is nothing short of brilliant. It contains perhaps the most perfect chilling atmosphere that I have ever witnessed in a thriller. The music alone was enough to make one's skin crawl and the eerie cinematography of the shadowy desert surroundings would give even the strongest person nightmares that would last a week. Towards about three-fourths of the movie, however, things take a turn for the worse and the entire show gets down-right disturbing--even depressing. I guess due to the fact that there is just so much of this type of senseless violence being perpetrated in today's world, I found this part of the film quite tasteless and I just had to watch something a lot more light-hearted after this. But if Craven was trying to shock and disturb, then I can say his tactics sure worked. This film reminded me a lot of another movie of 70's nastalgia and that was "Deliverance", about an ill-fated canoe trip taken by a group of inexperienced men through an eerie wilderness and being attacked by savage mountain people. The plot in "The Hills Have Eyes", is quite similar, except this time it is with a suburban family in the desert, navigating their way through an empty land in which they only THINK they understand. Bottom line is, I felt the atmoshpere was excellent, but the depressing violence, death, and gore towards the end made it into a film that I would really not care to see again. However, for avid Craven fans, this should not disappoint.
A 70's horror classic!.......2006-11-10
When a family drives their way to California in the middle of nowhere, their car breaks down and decides to camp for the night to fix it. Unfortunately there is a family of crazed cannibal hillbillies waiting out there for their blood and wants them all dead.
One of the most influential and most original horror movies to come out of the late 70's! Wes Craven who wrote and direct this movie has made a cult favorite that stands the test of time with it's disturbing elements and gore, it also manages to be better then his previous "Last House on The Left" but succeeded better then that movie. Dee Wallace Stone (whom you remember as Eliot's mom from "ET") and Michael Barryman who plays the odd-headed cannibal Pluto shine here in such memorable performances, the film got an "X" rating originally due to the graphic violence but got an "R" rating and the movie was a drive-in success. This movie will be better known as the king of all killer hillbilly movies and is a total cult horror classic.
This 2-Disc DVD set has great picture and sound quality as the movie is shown it's uncut version for the first time on DVD! the extras are cool as well with a featurette that takes a look behind Wes Craven with his successes, audio commentary by Wes Craven, behind the scenes photo gallery, bio of Wes Craven, A documentary on the film, storyboard art, alternate ending, trailers & TV Spots, and poster-and-advertising art.
Also recommended: "The Hills Have Eyes (2006)", "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre series & 2003 remake with The Beginning", "Re-Animator", "Mother's Day", "Sleepaway Camp", "Friday The 13th series", "A Nightmare on Elm Street", "Freddy Vs. Jason", "Silence of the Lambs", "Hannibal", "Se7en", "Hostel", "The Toxic Avenger", "Evil Dead II", "The Last House on The Left", "I Spit on Your Grave", "Wrong Turn", "Maniac (1980)", "Tourist Trap", "Terror Train", "House of Wax (2005)", "Just Before Dawn", "The People Under The Stairs", "Scream 1 & 2", "Cabin Fever", "Sin City", "Ichi The Killer", "Battle Royale", "Eaten Alive (1977)", "Mountain of the Cannibal God", "Cannibal Ferox", "Driller Killer", "Cannibal Holocaust", and "Jungle Holocaust" ( a.k.a. Last Cannibal World).
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Starring: Michael McMillian , Jessica Stroup , Daniella Alonso , Jacob Vargas , and Lee Thompson Young
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Release Date: 2007-07-17 |
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Average customer rating:
- good sequel
- Awsome sequel to Hills
- Weakquel to a B-Movie Drive-In Classic
- Eh, it was an alright sequel!
- Don't waste your time
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Starring: Tamara Stafford , Kevin Spirtas , John Bloom (III) , Colleen Riley , and Michael Berryman
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ASIN: B00006FMBT
Release Date: 2002-09-03 |
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Everyone's favorite desert-dwelling mutant cannibals return in this gruesome sequel to the classic drive-in shocker! Years after the original massacre which pitted a suburban family against a band of cave dwellers, traumatized survivors lead a team of dirt bikers back into the wild for a bus expedition. After their vehicle breaks down, the travelers must fend for their lives when the hungry savages (led by spooky Michael Berryman) emerge from the hills in search of dinner! Directed by horror maestro Wes Craven (Scream, A Nightmare on Elm Street), this brutal chiller features shocking highlights from the original film (including the now legendary canine flashback) and an eerie score by "Friday the 13th's" Henry Manfredini. Vicious, delirious, and outrageous!
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good sequel.......2007-05-23
i liked this one allmost az much az pt.1 (original film not tha remake). im not really feelin these new remakes tho. if u liked tha original hills have eyes then this iz great 4 tha collection
Awsome sequel to Hills.......2007-05-20
They have a remake out now but this origional sequal to hills is great. Good gore and blood too.
Weakquel to a B-Movie Drive-In Classic.......2007-05-12
Hills II, as has been said before, was an attempt to repeat the success not only of the first flick, but also of the up-and-coming Jason and Halloween franchises -- released just as the Freddie franchise was starting. Actually, the film plays well if watched right after the first, but it cannot stand on its own.
It contains some of the now standard cliches of the 80s slasher flicks: the guys are immature, the women are intuitive, but discounted, and the post-adolescent sex/skinny dipping/shower scenes are de rigeur. Also, the most vulnerable character lives (this time, a pretty, but blind, young woman). Plenty of 80s hair and fashion, but lacking the suspensefulness of the first. In the original, we WANT some of the victims to be killed because they're so stupid and obnoxious. In Hills II, they're just immature.
Eh, it was an alright sequel!.......2006-11-14
After the events of the original movie, a few of the survivors along with bikers take a bus-trip to a bike race near the desert where the incident with the hillbillies occured, as they take a shortcut by accident the evil cannibalistic hillbilly family sets a trap for them.
An OK sequel to a Wes Craven 70's cult horror classic which this is also directed by him, some of it's mostly flashbacks to the original movie at parts just like "Silent Night Deadly Night 2". Nice to see everyone's favorite cult deformed actor Michael Berryman back as Pluto the not-so-lovable mutant cannibal, it's a fair sequel but can't be as good as the original or the recent remake.
The DVD has decent picture with miminal grain at times and decent sound with only one extra which is a trailer to the movie.
Don't waste your time.......2006-10-28
The movie was only 90 minutes, but at least 20 of those were flash backs from the first one. The hillbilly cannibals are all of a sudden hillbilly cannibals on motorbikes. And NO ONE dies until the last 20 minutes. Need I say more?
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- Generosity is a plus
- "Deliverance" with a Wes Craven twist
- A 70's horror classic!
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Fans of Wes Craven's more recent major studio work (the Scream series) may be put off by the low-budget griminess of his sophomore feature, The Hills Have Eyes, but the director's longtime supporters and aficionados of '70s horror will be riveted by this unsettling culture clash fable. Originally titled Blood Relations, Hills strands a suburban family (which includes E.T.'s Dee Wallace Stone and future documentarian Robert Houston) in the desert and pits them against a clan of inbred cannibals. The resourceful killer brood quickly decimates the outsiders' numbers, forcing the survivors to fight back with equally savage means. Like Craven's debut, Last House on the Left, Hills is a relentlessly tense film which demolishes numerous societal taboos (fratricide and infant kidnapping, for starters), but it also delivers a powerful subtext about family and the fine line between civilization and animal behavior amidst the mayhem. Highly recommended for Craven completists and fans of no-holds-barred horror. --Paul Gaita
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Absolute rubbish.......2007-04-18
I never saw the remake of this. I watched the original recently. I have never seen such an amateurish, laughable mess. The acting is appalling and some of the cannibal performances are actually unintentionally hilarious. The blood and guts look very artificial. I dunno. I was lead to believe that this was a video nasty and quite shocking. I found it shocking alright...but not in the way that was intended.
Do yourself a favour and watch Deliverance instead. It is far far better
ok.......2007-02-21
this was not the best but remake was great i would say BUY THE REMAKE
Generosity is a plus.......2006-11-25
I'm watching the movie, Im at the beginning right now as I write, and I'll say this. The new one is waaay better. The old one is NOTHING like the new one. The villains look like regular people, they're not deformed or anything. Instead of the tires getting flat by the villains, the driver crashes the car because he didn't want to hit a RABBIT! lol, come on. I gave it an average 3 stars just because the new version is better, otherwise I probably would have given it 2. It didn't even have a very fascinating introduction as the new one did. I AM thankful that I at least get to see the original though. So that's a good thing.
"Deliverance" with a Wes Craven twist.......2006-11-22
The first half of this film is nothing short of brilliant. It contains perhaps the most perfect chilling atmosphere that I have ever witnessed in a thriller. The music alone was enough to make one's skin crawl and the eerie cinematography of the shadowy desert surroundings would give even the strongest person nightmares that would last a week. Towards about three-fourths of the movie, however, things take a turn for the worse and the entire show gets down-right disturbing--even depressing. I guess due to the fact that there is just so much of this type of senseless violence being perpetrated in today's world, I found this part of the film quite tasteless and I just had to watch something a lot more light-hearted after this. But if Craven was trying to shock and disturb, then I can say his tactics sure worked. This film reminded me a lot of another movie of 70's nastalgia and that was "Deliverance", about an ill-fated canoe trip taken by a group of inexperienced men through an eerie wilderness and being attacked by savage mountain people. The plot in "The Hills Have Eyes", is quite similar, except this time it is with a suburban family in the desert, navigating their way through an empty land in which they only THINK they understand. Bottom line is, I felt the atmoshpere was excellent, but the depressing violence, death, and gore towards the end made it into a film that I would really not care to see again. However, for avid Craven fans, this should not disappoint.
A 70's horror classic!.......2006-11-10
When a family drives their way to California in the middle of nowhere, their car breaks down and decides to camp for the night to fix it. Unfortunately there is a family of crazed cannibal hillbillies waiting out there for their blood and wants them all dead.
One of the most influential and most original horror movies to come out of the late 70's! Wes Craven who wrote and direct this movie has made a cult favorite that stands the test of time with it's disturbing elements and gore, it also manages to be better then his previous "Last House on The Left" but succeeded better then that movie. Dee Wallace Stone (whom you remember as Eliot's mom from "ET") and Michael Barryman who plays the odd-headed cannibal Pluto shine here in such memorable performances, the film got an "X" rating originally due to the graphic violence but got an "R" rating and the movie was a drive-in success. This movie will be better known as the king of all killer hillbilly movies and is a total cult horror classic.
This 2-Disc DVD set has great picture and sound quality as the movie is shown it's uncut version for the first time on DVD! the extras are cool as well with a featurette that takes a look behind Wes Craven with his successes, audio commentary by Wes Craven, behind the scenes photo gallery, bio of Wes Craven, A documentary on the film, storyboard art, alternate ending, trailers & TV Spots, and poster-and-advertising art.
Also recommended: "The Hills Have Eyes (2006)", "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre series & 2003 remake with The Beginning", "Re-Animator", "Mother's Day", "Sleepaway Camp", "Friday The 13th series", "A Nightmare on Elm Street", "Freddy Vs. Jason", "Silence of the Lambs", "Hannibal", "Se7en", "Hostel", "The Toxic Avenger", "Evil Dead II", "The Last House on The Left", "I Spit on Your Grave", "Wrong Turn", "Maniac (1980)", "Tourist Trap", "Terror Train", "House of Wax (2005)", "Just Before Dawn", "The People Under The Stairs", "Scream 1 & 2", "Cabin Fever", "Sin City", "Ichi The Killer", "Battle Royale", "Eaten Alive (1977)", "Mountain of the Cannibal God", "Cannibal Ferox", "Driller Killer", "Cannibal Holocaust", and "Jungle Holocaust" ( a.k.a. Last Cannibal World).
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- Better than I thought it would be!
- KNB = 5 Stars, Film = 3.5 Stars
- VERY good remake
- WORST REMAKE EVER!
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Release Date: 2006-06-20 |
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Boasting an upgrade in production values, The Hills Have Eyes should please new-generation horror fans without offending devotees of Wes Craven's original version from 1977. There's still something to be said for the gritty shock value of Craven's low-budget original, made at a time when horror had been relegated to the pop-cultural ghetto, mostly below the radar of major Hollywood studios. With the box-office resurgence of horror in the new millennium--and the genre's lucrative popularity among the all-important teen demographic--it's only fitting that French director Alexandre Aja should follow up his international hit High Tension with a similarly brutal American debut to boost his Hollywood street-cred. Working with cowriter Gregory Levasseur, Aja remains surprisingly faithful to Craven's original, beginning with a bickering family that crashes their truck and trailer in the remote desert of New Mexico (actually filmed in Morocco), where they are subsequently terrorized, brutalized, and murdered by a freakish family of psychopaths, mutated by the lingering radiation from 331 nuclear bomb tests that were carried out during the 1950s and '60s. After several killings are carried out in memorably grisly fashion, it's left to the survivors to outsmart their disfigured tormentors, who are blessed with horrendous make-up (especially Robert Joy as freak leader "Lizard") but never quite as unsettling as the original film's horror icon, Michael Berryman. In Aja's hands, this newfangled Hills is all about savagery and de-evolution, reducing its characters to a state of pure, retaliatory terror. It's hardly satisfying in terms of storytelling (since there's hardly any story to tell), but as an exercise in sheer malevolence, it's undeniably effective.--Jeff Shannon
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Based on the original film by fright master Wes Craven, 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 zone. Miles from nowhere, the Carter family soon realizes the seemingly uninhabited wasteland is actually the breeding ground of a blood-thirsty mutant family...and they are the prey.
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Better than I thought it would be! .......2007-06-12
I haven't seen the original in years, but I remembered liking it. I was kind of skeptical about the remake of this movie but was pleasantly surprised. I thought it was a great remake. I liked the fact that it was gory, but not way overboard, such as Texas Chainsaw Massacre. Great ending! Overall, I loved this movie!
KNB = 5 Stars, Film = 3.5 Stars.......2007-06-09
I'll bypass telling you what you already know, that it's a remake and what the plot is. The film just finished, I'm now 10 minutes into the "making of" documentary, and I must say as a fan of the genre this picture is pretty awesome. I'm a BIG fan of KNB (The EFX Group) and they have outdone themselves on this one. This film is littered with remarkable effects, very gory and very realistic. The head shot, in the outhouse...WOW! The gore alone get's 5 stars in my stupid little opinion book of ratings. As always, when I watch horror films I tend to overlook the plot holes, etc and focus more on the gore, the scares, this film has loads of gore and a few scares as well.
It's selling on Amazon cheap, seriously consider picking it up!
VERY good remake.......2007-06-06
Given the task of remaking Craven's original The Hills Have Eyes, they had to cast someone great as the director. They chose Alexandre Aja, and what they came up with was one of the scariest movies of 2006, perhaps THE scariest. My review will be in two parts: the movie itself and the DVD special features.
The Carter family is off on a road trip through the desert. After stopping to get gas, the station attendant tells them of a pathway through the desert that will take them to the main highway and would cut a few hours off their time. The Carters accept, not knowing that the route they would travel would take them through an area that had undergone heavy nuclear testing by the US Army years earlier- or that a family of settlers had survived the testing, but with less than desirable results: they are all now bloodthirsty mutants. So the Carters move on- till a spikechain set in the road blows out all four of their tires. They settle in while Big Bob goes to get help. When night falls, the "eyes" open up- and that's where the fun begins.
This being the Unrated Director's Cut, alot of material made it in that wasn't in the original R-rated theater version: the fight between Doug (Aaron Stafford) and Pluto was extended and some of the other fight scenes were added; one scene that was taken out, however, was the scene of Pluto siphoning gas from the family Jeep. The DVD itself contains a behind the scenes look at the making of the movie called "Surviving the Hills", a music video for The Finalist's "Leave the Broken Hearts", and a few other extras like director and actor commentaries.
The Ring? The Grudge? Nah. Most "scary" movies can't touch The Hills Have Eyes with a 50-foot pole. Thanks, Aja, for making probably the scariest movie I have ever seen.
WORST REMAKE EVER!.......2007-06-04
This movie is no where near as good as the original. SAVE YOUR MONEY...... PERIOD!
garbage.......2007-05-22
Not a horror movie fan, but all was fine for me until the POINTLESS rape scene. Disturbing enough to me that i'm still thinking about it a few days later.
I don't even necessarily object to a rape scene being put in a film - but this disgusted me in that it was put in purely for those who get some sort of delight through watching a woman's suffering. I really, really womder about people who enjoy this kind of stuff.
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The Hills Have Eyes
Starring: Michael Berryman , Janus Blythe , Cordy Clark , Flora , and Lance Gordon
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- Peter Locke Presents Wes Craven s Cult Classic Uncut, Uncensored And On DVD For The First Time Ever! The Carters are an all-American family on their way to California when their car breaks down far from civilization in the remote southwestern desert. But they are not alone: Watching from the hills is a very different kind of clan, a family of marauding inbred cannibals with an unspeakable taste fo
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The Carters are an all-American family on their way to California when their car breaks down far from civilization in the remote southwestern desert. But they are not alone: Watching from the hills is a very different kind of clan, a family of marauding inbred cannibals with an unspeakable taste for human flesh and monstrous brutality. In the nightmare that follows, what depravities must this wholesome family endure to survive? And in a primal wasteland ruled by lust and rage, who will become the most shocking savages of all? Dee Wallace, James Whitworth, Susan Lanier and Michael Berryman co-star in this disturbing cult classic written and directed by horror-master Wes Craven (LAST HOUSE ON THE LEFT, A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET, SCREAM).
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- Maybe some people not like it, no harm to give it a try !
- Five stars for Yecch factor!
- Unbelieably lame
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For die-hard horror fans, The Hills Have Eyes 2 is a knock-off remake/sequel that delivers a few queasy thrills. While it represents a minor improvement over the 1985 sequel to Wes Craven's 1977 original (you know, the one with the notorious "canine flashback"), it's yet another cookie-cutter exercise in death by stupidity, focusing its Aliens-in-the-desert plot on a scrappy, ill-tempered unit of National Guard soldiers who've been sent to investigate the first remake's hellish aftermath in the bomb-tested wastelands of Nevada. (Like its far-superior 2006 predecessor, this sequel was shot on location in Morocco.) Unfortunately these bickering recruits are an embarrassment to their inauthentic-looking uniforms, and their reckless inexperience (not to mention a tired, uninspired screenplay by Craven and his son Jonathan) makes them easy targets for the ravenous, irradiated mutants who dwell within a treacherous network of tunnels and caves. As the generically good-looking cast is reduced to a few terrorized survivors (which somehow doesn't stop costars Jessica Stroup and Daniella Alonso from looking like fashion models), music-video director Martin Weisz switches to auto-pilot in his dubious feature debut, serving up a basically plotless succession of grisly makeup FX by Howard Berger and his crack team of gore-mongers. The gross-out factor is sufficiently amusing (including one soldier pulled through a hole with one leg in the totally wrong direction), but even devoted horror connoisseurs will have to admit this is pretty lame stuff. --Jeff Shannon
Customer Reviews:
A Let Down...........2007-07-09
Unfortunately the bad reviews this movie received from the critics are correct,it's a poor effort. It seems as though the makers of this movie just rushed the whole project through in a response to the success of the very good remake of the original film. Real bad acting starts things off (the sergeant was particularly bad!)and hardly improves throughout the duration. The story could and should of been so much better too. In short, a very poor horror movie, give it a miss.
Maybe some people not like it, no harm to give it a try !.......2007-07-03
Same story of how people fight for their own lives in desperate situation. It is still a relief and comfort everytime watching a mutant is wasted by the National Guard trainees. It really cheers people up somehow, seeing some of these trainees eventually make it by their own will !
Five stars for Yecch factor!.......2007-06-20
I never got to see the first remake, so maybe that helped me enjoy this second one more. And a guy jumping up out of the porta-potty? No, I wasn't expecting that! Other than that, nothing terribly unusual here (o.k. maybe the mutant waving bye-bye with the guy's severed arm), but I am looking forward to the "unrated" DVD and the bonus features.
Unbelieably lame.......2007-06-07
I wasn't crazy about hearing of a re-make of Wes Craven's cult classic The Hills Have Eyes, but I was pleasently surprised with Alexandre Aja's re-imagining of Craven's bloody tale. Now we have The Hills Have Eyes 2 (which actually isn't the first time; Craven originally did a sequel to his original film way back when first) is here, and everything that made the first re-make so good is thrown out the window as this film succumbs to every cliche idea that plagues a horror movie. This time around, a group of National Guard trainees are in the Nevada desert on a training exercise, and they run afoul of the mutant cannibal family who have only one thing on their mind. Despite some nifty gore effects, the rest of the film features horrible acting (along with the fact we have to believe that these beautiful people are actually soldiers), predictable scares, a boring story (courtesy of Craven himself along with his son Jonathan), and uninspired direction. What made the first re-make so good was Aja's pacing and atmosphere that anything could happen at anytime, and you just didn't know what to expect next if you'd never seen the original film in the first place. As I said, this sequel throws everything good about the re-make out the window, and the end result is an unbelievably lame horror movie that should have been straight to DVD fodder instead. Avoid.
Poor.......2007-05-29
Low-budget - only a single set. An abandoned mine-shaft. It must have been hard work...
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Fans of Wes Craven's more recent major studio work (the Scream series) may be put off by the low-budget griminess of his sophomore feature, The Hills Have Eyes, but the director's longtime supporters and aficionados of '70s horror will be riveted by this unsettling culture clash fable. Originally titled Blood Relations, Hills strands a suburban family (which includes E.T.'s Dee Wallace Stone and future documentarian Robert Houston) in the desert and pits them against a clan of inbred cannibals. The resourceful killer brood quickly decimates the outsiders' numbers, forcing the survivors to fight back with equally savage means. Like Craven's debut, Last House on the Left, Hills is a relentlessly tense film which demolishes numerous societal taboos (fratricide and infant kidnapping, for starters), but it also delivers a powerful subtext about family and the fine line between civilization and animal behavior amidst the mayhem. Highly recommended for Craven completists and fans of no-holds-barred horror. --Paul Gaita
Customer Reviews:
Absolute rubbish.......2007-04-18
I never saw the remake of this. I watched the original recently. I have never seen such an amateurish, laughable mess. The acting is appalling and some of the cannibal performances are actually unintentionally hilarious. The blood and guts look very artificial. I dunno. I was lead to believe that this was a video nasty and quite shocking. I found it shocking alright...but not in the way that was intended.
Do yourself a favour and watch Deliverance instead. It is far far better
ok.......2007-02-21
this was not the best but remake was great i would say BUY THE REMAKE
Generosity is a plus.......2006-11-25
I'm watching the movie, Im at the beginning right now as I write, and I'll say this. The new one is waaay better. The old one is NOTHING like the new one. The villains look like regular people, they're not deformed or anything. Instead of the tires getting flat by the villains, the driver crashes the car because he didn't want to hit a RABBIT! lol, come on. I gave it an average 3 stars just because the new version is better, otherwise I probably would have given it 2. It didn't even have a very fascinating introduction as the new one did. I AM thankful that I at least get to see the original though. So that's a good thing.
"Deliverance" with a Wes Craven twist.......2006-11-22
The first half of this film is nothing short of brilliant. It contains perhaps the most perfect chilling atmosphere that I have ever witnessed in a thriller. The music alone was enough to make one's skin crawl and the eerie cinematography of the shadowy desert surroundings would give even the strongest person nightmares that would last a week. Towards about three-fourths of the movie, however, things take a turn for the worse and the entire show gets down-right disturbing--even depressing. I guess due to the fact that there is just so much of this type of senseless violence being perpetrated in today's world, I found this part of the film quite tasteless and I just had to watch something a lot more light-hearted after this. But if Craven was trying to shock and disturb, then I can say his tactics sure worked. This film reminded me a lot of another movie of 70's nastalgia and that was "Deliverance", about an ill-fated canoe trip taken by a group of inexperienced men through an eerie wilderness and being attacked by savage mountain people. The plot in "The Hills Have Eyes", is quite similar, except this time it is with a suburban family in the desert, navigating their way through an empty land in which they only THINK they understand. Bottom line is, I felt the atmoshpere was excellent, but the depressing violence, death, and gore towards the end made it into a film that I would really not care to see again. However, for avid Craven fans, this should not disappoint.
A 70's horror classic!.......2006-11-10
When a family drives their way to California in the middle of nowhere, their car breaks down and decides to camp for the night to fix it. Unfortunately there is a family of crazed cannibal hillbillies waiting out there for their blood and wants them all dead.
One of the most influential and most original horror movies to come out of the late 70's! Wes Craven who wrote and direct this movie has made a cult favorite that stands the test of time with it's disturbing elements and gore, it also manages to be better then his previous "Last House on The Left" but succeeded better then that movie. Dee Wallace Stone (whom you remember as Eliot's mom from "ET") and Michael Barryman who plays the odd-headed cannibal Pluto shine here in such memorable performances, the film got an "X" rating originally due to the graphic violence but got an "R" rating and the movie was a drive-in success. This movie will be better known as the king of all killer hillbilly movies and is a total cult horror classic.
This 2-Disc DVD set has great picture and sound quality as the movie is shown it's uncut version for the first time on DVD! the extras are cool as well with a featurette that takes a look behind Wes Craven with his successes, audio commentary by Wes Craven, behind the scenes photo gallery, bio of Wes Craven, A documentary on the film, storyboard art, alternate ending, trailers & TV Spots, and poster-and-advertising art.
Also recommended: "The Hills Have Eyes (2006)", "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre series & 2003 remake with The Beginning", "Re-Animator", "Mother's Day", "Sleepaway Camp", "Friday The 13th series", "A Nightmare on Elm Street", "Freddy Vs. Jason", "Silence of the Lambs", "Hannibal", "Se7en", "Hostel", "The Toxic Avenger", "Evil Dead II", "The Last House on The Left", "I Spit on Your Grave", "Wrong Turn", "Maniac (1980)", "Tourist Trap", "Terror Train", "House of Wax (2005)", "Just Before Dawn", "The People Under The Stairs", "Scream 1 & 2", "Cabin Fever", "Sin City", "Ichi The Killer", "Battle Royale", "Eaten Alive (1977)", "Mountain of the Cannibal God", "Cannibal Ferox", "Driller Killer", "Cannibal Holocaust", and "Jungle Holocaust" ( a.k.a. Last Cannibal World).
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