The Hills Have Eyes

3/10/20061h 47m

Theatrical Release (US)

~ The lucky ones die first. ~

Overview:

Based on Wes Craven's 1977 suspenseful cult classic, 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.

Director:

Alexandre Aja

Status:

Released

Language:

English

Buget:

$15,000,000.00

Revenue:

$69,623,713.00

Key words:

van
rape
ambush
gas station
new mexico
gore
remake
serial killer
slasher
brutality
cannibal
killer
desert
family holiday
madness
ghost town
torture porn
lost in the desert
nuclear testing
human monster

Cast

Aaron Stanford

~ as ~

Doug

Kathleen Quinlan

~ as ~

Ethel

Vinessa Shaw

~ as ~

Lynn

Ted Levine

~ as ~

Big Bob

Emilie de Ravin

~ as ~

Brenda

Dan Byrd

~ as ~

Bobby

Tom Bower

~ as ~

Gas Station Attendant

Billy Drago

~ as ~

Papa Jupiter

Robert Joy

~ as ~

Lizard

Desmond Askew

~ as ~

Big Brain

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Reviews (2)

Gimly
Written 6 year(s) ago
8
One of the best horror remakes to come out in this most recent trend. Rather than ignoring its source material, or taking the other extreme of drearily rehashing it scene for scene, Aja and Levasseur's The Hills Have Eyes simply expands and improves upon the original.

Final rating:★★★★ - Very strong appeal. A personal favourite.
CinemaSerf
Written 3 year(s) ago
6
Aside from some pretty significant plausibility issues, this is actually quite a decent shock horror. A family stop off at gas station where the elderly attendant tells them of a dirt track shortcut across the desert that will save them a few hours. Towing their caravan, off they go, but when a puncture causes them to lose control and crash into a big rock, they begin to realise that they are not the only folks nearby - and I use the term "folks" loosely. What now follows sees our travellers terrorised by some hideously mutated people who had been left there ever since the US Government carried out nuclear tests. Reduced to just 3, "Big Bob" (Ted Levine) and his faithful hound have to track down his kidnapped baby grandchild - a perilous journey indeed. Now quite why they decided to take the shortcut is just one of a few dodgy decision taken by the "Carter" family that made me wonder, and rendered the plot increasingly silly as we progress to an ending that seems to drag on a bit too long. That said, there are plenty of jump moments and Alexandre Aja manages to keep the annoyingly screaming hysteria to a minimum. Once it eventually gets going, it becomes decently paced and the photography is tightly cut to maximise the impact of some pretty gruesome scenarios (and prosthetics!). Though not as gritty as the 1977 original, I think it's still just as good.