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List Price: $14.98 | | Label: 20th Century Fox
Salesrank: 16754
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:
Shockingly better than expected 
2009-10-24 - To all you reviewers who didn't like this movie because it was "shocking and disturbing": BOO!
You're the reason why we have all this predictable, the good character always lives, the antagonist has an alterior motive besides plain evil, we must kill off one person of the group at a time, the protagonist has to uncover the "mystery", horror movie garbage that floods theaters every year. Don't you ever get tired of that crap? Don't you understand? You were disturbed because it was THAT good! Horror movies are SUPPOSED to be disturbing remember? The stuff you've been watching lately are gory action flicks.
A feast for horror/gore fans 
2009-10-12 - This movie is not as bad as people make it out to be.Horror fans and people who enjoy seeing LOTS of blood/gore in horror will enjoy this movie ALOT.the plot was interesting,acting wasnt bad at all and the effects on the "mutant" were very good.There was one scene almost in the begining involving a girl and a "mutant" in a trailer raping her that some people will have a hard time watching but i think it adds to the horrific nature of the hills and the desparete struggle for the people to survive.Horror/gore fans give this one a try you will NOT be disapointed,i have myself seen this movie several times and always find it a good watch on a dark,stormy night.
Revolting 
2009-05-30 - I'm not gonna bash people for liking this movie. because i wanted to like it, its definately my kind of movie. but i nearly threw up with the trailer scene and the rape. i thought wes craven was pretty good at filmaking but to put this into a movie is disgusting. Most of the girls i know were haunted by that scene days afterwards. i certainly dont speak for all women, but i have never felt so degrated by watching that scene. i will never watch another wes craven movie again. i wonder if people would feel differently if a man was raped? maybe i'm being overly dramatic, but are we that desensitized to women being raped that watching a disgusting mutant commit the rape is entertainment? it makes me sick
Why?
2009-03-30 - First, I have to admit I'm not a horror fan but I am a fan of great plots. This movie has a very generic plot. "Monsters" attacking people. This movie is all about shock value and gore, which I see no point in. With all the great reviews, I sat through this waste of time waiting for a great twist at the end. There was none. The people got away. Wow! To enjoy the movie just a little more I've come up with my own ending...
The little girl who saves the baby lives. The baby's father is grateful to the little girl. The family's trailer & truck are blown up so they have no way to leave. The little girl brings the family into the hills to live.
This ending would have provided the happy ending, the needed plot twist and a better open ending for a second movie.
A PROFOUNDLY DISTURBING SHOCKING GORE FEST 9.25 OUT OF 10 
2009-03-26 - Good horror films are hard to come by these days. During the course of the current decade we've seen a lot of recycled trash over and over again. They don't scare us anymore, we can literally predict what's going to happen next and who's going to die, the plots are full of holes, the acting is bad, etc. Although critics and some moviegoers were decidedly mixed about this film, I personally loved it and it now ranks as one of my favorite horror films of this decade next to my other favorite horror films of this decade like the Resident Evil films, Silent Hill, The Descent, the Dawn of the Dead remake, Jeepers Creepers 1 and 2, and the Final Destination trilogy. The Hills Have Eyes is one of the most disturbing and gory films ever made, and it will shock you (And I'm a person who hardly has any emotion).
WHAT IT'S ABOUT: The Carter family is on a cross-country trip to California, and on their way through New Mexico they stop at a gas station in the middle of nowhere and owner of the station tells them about a faster route to California through the desert. The family listens and takes the road and while on the road all of their tires flatten simultaneously, and their SUV crashes into a rock and is totaled. Now the family is trapped in the middle of nowhere, but by the end of the night realize that they are not alone in this desert. They are now being hunted by cannibalistic mutants (Who became this way because of nuclear radiation due to nuclear testing in the 50's) who will stop at nothing to kill them.
MUSIC: The music provides a great atmosphere for this film. It is very well composed and fits the vibe perfectly.
ACTION: This film is a nasty gore fest and is without a doubt one of the goriest films ever made. This film is very suspenseful, and there is a chance that it may actually scare you unlike most horror films. Not to mention the shocking rape scene in the film. This film is one helluva suspenseful ride that will keep you on the edge of your seat.
ACTING: Most of the time the acting is generally good, but there are times in which the acting falls under the curse of many horror films with either awkward dialogue or just bad acting. It's good most of the time though and is believable most of the time.
OVERALL: Craving a good horror film? Need a horror film that's gory yet scary at the same time? This is one of your best options in this current decade. It's a fantastic horror film that's damn scary and yet disgustingly gory at the same time. Easily one of the most shocking films in a very long time.
THE GOOD: Shocking gore factor, great music, great scare-factor, good acting, great mutant designs, and cool action scenes.
THE BAD: Moments of bad acting or dialogue.
