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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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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Really glad I ignored the bad reviews and just bout it,
This review is from: The Hills Have Eyes (2006) [DVD] (DVD)
A typical American family is driving across the dessert. They take advice from a weapon wielding weirdo to take a short cut (as you do). The car somehow crashes into a suspiciously well situated rock, and our family suddenly find themselves stranded in the middle of nowhere: this nowhere happens to be old abandoned military testing grounds, and our characters quickly begin to realize that they are not alone...
The Hills Have Eyes premise may just sound like a cheap excuse to kill off some personality-free characters, but I can assure you it's not. What we have here is actually a very bold, uncompromising and exiting survival thriller. Even in some parts it may go slightly over-the-top, and the running time could easily be cut down a bit, it still results as one of the best survival flicks around. Certain highlights are the surprisingly good and believable acting, brilliant gore and mutant effects, and some very original and unusual scares. Most critics felt obliged to give this film an only 'O.K' rating, because it is a remake of a classic Wes Craven slasher, but behind their words, they know they all enjoyed it. Because I was so pleased with the turn-out of this film, I went out and bout the sequel, The Hills Have Eyes 2, thinking again that critics had rated it lowly because it was a sequel to a remake: this time, the critics were right. I would advise you not to bother with the second.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
The Hills Have Eyes,
This review is from: The Hills Have Eyes (2006) [DVD] (DVD)
Once again, this is another movie I shouldn't have been watching, with me being twelve and all, but this time, I could handle it, and eagerly awaited the sequel, wich I was extremely disappointed in. But back to the first one..
The Hills Have Eyes starts out as a family who take the long route to their holiday destination not realising that most of the people who drive that way, never get the chance to drive back.. 'Surprisingly', 'something' causes their car to go off the rails, and they are left stranded in a place with zero civilization. The family split into three; most of them staying at the wreckage, but one man goes back along the road they came, trying to reach the petrol station, and the other walks on, to see what awaited them. The gore in this movie is not as sadistic as it is made out to be in the reviews but will still extremely please all the hardcore gore fans. Me, for example. Lol. ;) =P The gore is not only provided by the vengance-seekers that are the enemy, but by the family themsekves when they decide enough is enough and start to fight back. A really good survival-horror movie, with twists, turns and jolts happening in almost EVERY scene. I strongly advise you buy this movie, or at least rent it out to see what you make of it.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Bold, gritty, unflinchingly disgusting, sadistic, sick, savage, brutal, nerve-wrecking, triumphant horror masterpiece.,
By madaboutmovies "M.A.M" (United Kingdom) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The Hills Have Eyes (2006) [DVD] (DVD)
All the words above describe this movie, and how bloody close to the boundarys it goes.
A family are driving accross the dessert and just happen to stumble accross an old newclear testing ground, conveniently enough, something happenes and their car swurves off the road and smashes into a suspiciously well situated rock. The horror begins... 'The Hills Have Eyes' is deffinately one of the best survival horror flicks around. Setting the atmosphere really very well against the beautifal sweeping dessert(ed?) mountains, the film cleverly makes the absalutely unthinkable, possible. This, I think makes the film oh so much more scary, that the terrifying events happening on the screen infront of you, really could actually happen! You'll have to watch it to understand, and believe me, you will NOT be dissapointed! Don't buy this at your own risk!
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