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List Price: $14.98 | | Label: 20th Century Fox
Salesrank: 4114
Released: June 20, 2006 |
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MPAA Rating: R (Restricted)
Media: DVD |
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Editorial Review:
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.
Description of The Hills Have Eyes (Unrated Edition):
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
The Hills Have Eyes (Unrated Edition) Reviews:
The Hills Have Eyes 
2008-08-26 - If you like true horror, realistic blood and gore and a great story line, this movie is for you!
Very Disturbing 
2008-08-17 - I found this movie very disturbing. I enjoy horror movies but this was very hard to watch. In it there is a camper scene where a young girl gets raped and while all that is taking place a baby is crying all through the scene. 2 things I hate to see in a movie and can't understand why directors feel to put it in. It was more sad than enjoyable. Not for anyone under 18.
Realistic pain!
2008-07-27 - Perfect! special effects are so real. I see it 2 times by month with the same expression in my face. I'm wondering how is possible the perfect scenes has not been prohibited. I have seen the Trauma series & I can tell you this is almost like those police films. The characters, camera shots, soundtrack, etc. The last blood movie that impress me so much was Cabin Fever, I never expect a better one, now I realize I was wrong, this is the best. Many people prefer to turn around when the best scenes are running, I don't! If you're looking something bloody and scary this is the one you have to buy. It deserves a lot of respect!
Eyes ThaT Watch .. What Is 
2008-06-05 - Very good horror movie.Good story.You feel for the people, who are being scared to death.I saw the first movie version of "The Hills Have Eyes" & have to say,Wes Craven "Hill Have Eyes" still alittle better of a movie. If gore, your thing .. it's here. Enjoy the movie. See,both versions.
thrilling and great movie
2008-05-01 - this was a quit disturbing movie especially the begining. some people was saying that this was based on a true story know i can't say i believe it but it's possible that a radio active sattelite blew and turned those people in to disgusting mutants, but this movie was great a shocking and very disgusting movie just looking at those creatures while i was whatching the movie made my stomach noausous but it was a great movie.
