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11 of 13 people found the following review helpful
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A derelict dump in a dismal, dusty desert. An old timer is planning to leave, hurriedly harbouring a feral girl who also seeks escape. A family of tourists - big car, bigger caravan - arrive in search of fuel and directions to a old silver mine. Despite the old timer's protestations that they go back to civilisation and stick to the main road, you know there's something out there and it might be crazed and demonic, but it's got more sense than they have. They're doomed, all doomed. This is a nuclear testing site and Air Force bombing range, and nobody is going to come looking for them. Did I say nobody?
What follows is a siege of the broken down car and caravan, the tourists slowly being picked off by a family of feral cannibals who watch from the hills then come looking for excitement and food.
Although marred by the cliché of the women doing a lot of emotional screaming while the men try to remain taciturn and phlegmatic, this is a superior horror movie. It's reminiscent of the Sawney Bean tradition famous in my part of Scotland. The horror gets a touch sentimental in places, and the bad guys are really just ugly nasties - there's little attempt to explain or elaborate their characters. The good guys, meanwhile, are probably just a touch too clean cut and stereotypical - and, I repeat, the women scream a lot.
"The Hills Have Eyes" builds on the tensions created by isolation and environment. This is civilised man confronted with the gradual stripping away of the trappings of civilisation - loss of wheels and mobility, loss of contact with the outside world, loss of food, loss of firepower, loss of life, loss of innocence. Surely anyone in this environment would return to the wild, become red in tooth and claw.
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By B. Evans
Format:DVD
Undoubtedly The Hills Have Eyes is a little known gem. Not nearly as controversial as Craven's debut, Last House On The Left, it still has the power to shock. It stinks of the late 1970s - the picture quality, sound and especially the clothes. It's also the best of the "isolation" horror movies of the '70s, along with The Texas Chainsaw Massacre of course, and the beautiful desert scenery definitely adds an atmosphere of some sort.
The acting isn't too bad, considering the relatively low-budget and the sort of weather conditions experienced (explained on the special features disc). Admittedly, it isn't terribly scary, but there are several unsettling moments, such as the scenes after the attacks on the two women.
The plot does have a few inconsistencies, such as the likelihood of a family living in caves on a bombing range and the Carter family accidentaly ending up there. But then again, this is horror, nothing is supposed to be straight-forward! Also, I found the appearences of the cannibal family a little "tame", apart from Michael Berryman's face!
Anchor Bay do an excellent job on both the packaging and the extras as usual, with a slip-on cover and a second disc containing two documentaries, an alternative ending, film trailers and so on...
So if, like me, you enjoy isolation horror films with a retro feel, The Hills Have Eys is not to be missed.
11 of 14 people found the following review helpful
By Brian Slevin
Format:DVD
Michael Berryman takes horror to a new level with his oscar worthy portrayal of a deranged cannibal punk. Laugh as Berryman spots the rabbbit, cry when big Bob Carter gets nailed up. A rollercoaster of a horror flick. Great extras on the dvd set too!
6 of 8 people found the following review helpful
By R. G. Williams
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Format:DVD|Amazon Verified Purchase
Scared the life out of me in 1980 when i saw this. fantastic horror film. Great story, nerve tingling tension. Bit dated no specila effects, but don't need them.
By Jack Heslop
Format:DVD|Amazon Verified Purchase
The Hills Have Eyes is a nasty, rattle-and-scream horror tale, which is a cut above the slashers that would follow due to its focus on suspense over simple gore. That said, this is still a sick and horrifying film, full of crucifixion, burning, rape and, no doubt most controversially, a baby in peril (no violence against it happens, thank God). Its plot is the stuff of campfire tales. An all-white, conservative family (mum's a Christian and dad's a casual racist) are driving to California when they stop at a gas station run by a bearded hermit (John Steadman) who warns them against a detour to an abandoned silver mine in the desert. Of course they ignore his warnings and find themselves stranded, surrounded on all sides by ominous hills.
The family consist of Bob (Russ Grieve), a retired cop with heart problems, Ethel (Virginia Vincent), their children Bobby (Robert Houston), Brenda (Susan Lanier) and Lynn (Dee Wallace), Lynn's husband Doug (Martin Speer), their baby Katie, and two dogs, Beauty and Beast. They seem like a normal, close-knit seventies family unit, the kind you'd see on old American sitcoms. When Bob and Doug go to look for help Bobby is given their spare gun and left in charge, despite being younger than Lynn. There's subtext here, especially when we meet our antagonists, a family of grotesque savages. Their patriarch is Papa Jupiter (James Whitworth), who with Mama (Cordy Clark) has four children, Mars (Lance Gordon), Pluto (Michael Berryman), Mercury (Arthur King) and Ruby (Janis Blythe). It's worth noting that only the men in this family are deformed. Mama and Ruby look comparatively normal, and would blend in with civilisation.
Such are the observations one makes while watching The Hills Have Eyes, which has a mind beneath its violence.... Read more ›
The family consist of Bob (Russ Grieve), a retired cop with heart problems, Ethel (Virginia Vincent), their children Bobby (Robert Houston), Brenda (Susan Lanier) and Lynn (Dee Wallace), Lynn's husband Doug (Martin Speer), their baby Katie, and two dogs, Beauty and Beast. They seem like a normal, close-knit seventies family unit, the kind you'd see on old American sitcoms. When Bob and Doug go to look for help Bobby is given their spare gun and left in charge, despite being younger than Lynn. There's subtext here, especially when we meet our antagonists, a family of grotesque savages. Their patriarch is Papa Jupiter (James Whitworth), who with Mama (Cordy Clark) has four children, Mars (Lance Gordon), Pluto (Michael Berryman), Mercury (Arthur King) and Ruby (Janis Blythe). It's worth noting that only the men in this family are deformed. Mama and Ruby look comparatively normal, and would blend in with civilisation.
Such are the observations one makes while watching The Hills Have Eyes, which has a mind beneath its violence.... Read more ›
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Simply classic horror
Hills is a great movie that genuinely shocked movie audeinces in the 70's. If that is not the case now so be it, because the story and the characters still blend in well to make... Read more
Published 17 months ago by Colonel Decker
4.0 out of 5 stars
"Do you always try to stop trespassers by hanging yourself ?"
The Carter family are traveling on vacation when they stop off at a gas station, the owner seems nice enough and tries to warn the family from straying from the main road. Read more
Published 19 months ago by West25
4.0 out of 5 stars
Not as good as expected. But sill...
I was wanting to watch this film for ages, and it was probably the anticipation that made me think it would be divine. I have to say, I was originally a little disappointed. Read more
Published on 23 Jun 2008 by dosn't matter who I am
4.0 out of 5 stars
Good as the remake
I saw this film just 1 day before i went to see the new version in cinema. This version is pretty good for a low budget 70s horror. Read more
Published on 16 Mar 2006 by Ali (DA Film GENIOUS)
4.0 out of 5 stars
One of the greats!
Hills Have Eyes is up there with other essential classics such as Texas Chainsaw Massacre and Halloween etc. Read more
Published on 23 July 2004 by Mrs Heather Smith
5.0 out of 5 stars
seventies flared trousers classic hooror
the first of a two part film in which a family living in the desert with an underground cavern in which they hack up innocent teenagers usually on scramblers(motorbikes) and their... Read more
Published on 29 Mar 2004
1.0 out of 5 stars
Major Disappointment
Having recently enjoyed the excellent Wrong Turn and worthy remake of Texas Chainsaw Massacre, I decided to check out this movie after hearing about it's influence on modern horror... Read more
Published on 14 Mar 2004 by "kingkev101"
2.0 out of 5 stars
The hills have eyes
All i can say is do not buy this,i wonder of youll get to see this so-called review.I am so tired of having a dvd in my hands,that says the true running time of the film,and yet is... Read more
Published on 25 Oct 2003 by Mystical Willow
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