World Famous Comics: The Hills Have Eyes (Unrated Edition)
The Hills Have Eyes (Unrated Edition)
Starring: Ted Levine, Kathleen Quinlan, Dan Byrd, Emilie de Ravin, Michael Bailey Smith Directed By: Alexandre Aja Average Rating: Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1 Audience Rating: R (Restricted) Binding: DVD Format: Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC Label: 20th Century Fox Number of Items: 1 Region Code: 1 Release Date: June 20, 2006 Running Time: 107 minutes Theatrical Release Date: March 10, 2006
Description: 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.
Amazon.com: 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
Revolting 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? 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 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.
Fun fun fun under a summer roadtrip sky of intense gory terror! Here's one for the books! I find it interesting that a modern-day horror remake has gotten so many positive reviews, and I for one am happy! For I, too, think "The Hills Have Eyes" is an excellent modern-day horror movie! Early this past summer before I saw the movie, I watched a fan-made preview on Youtube and was stunned at the intensity and gore even in the preview! I knew I was in for something big when I got this. And wow, was I ever correct! "The Hills Have Eyes" is EXTREME and pushes the boundaries with visual shock. The mutants that live in the hills of the desert are all pretty terrifying and brutal, and there's LOTS of gore ALL throughout the movie. And that's one thing about this movie that I find really interesting: The fact that it can combine being really scary and MEGA gory at the same time! Most horror movies incline towards being really scary, but not having such an intense amount of gore, OR rely heavily on gore but not be as scary. "The Hills Have Eyes" manages to be both really suspenseful and uber-bloody. The fact that the film-makers could find the perfect medium for the movie, and also maintain the awesome scenery and character development has thoroughly impressed me as a horror lover. Well, there's not much else to say here, other than this movie rocks! If you want a great horror movie, and one of the far better remakes of the last ten years, "The Hills Have Eyes" will have you glued to your couch! Thanks for the time, and peace.
Hills have their eyes closed I am a huge horror fan. I think the original Hills Have Eyes is a classic. So I was sad when I found the new one is an empty headed waste. Remakes are best when they find a new angle on a story, or have something to add to what the first film did. Great remakes such as The Thing or The Fly work because the filmmakers created movies that use the original as a starting point and then go off in their own direction - much like the remake of Dawn of the Dead.
Hills have eyes is almost a shot for shot redo in the vein of Psycho at times. It misses the entire point of the original film - that we are only as civilized as our world allows. None of the interesting parallel between the two families remains (one from the 'burbs the other a clan of cannibal mutants). Instead we just get loads and loads of gore without any impact whatsoever.
I like gory movies as much as the next person. I love Blood Feast, Romero's zombie films, Re-animator, the movies of Lucio Fulci, etc. But those films had something more then just gore. They were creative, inventive, some were fun, some were scary. This lame rehash of Hills is none of those things. I can't stress what a waste of time this so called picture is. It only attempts to revolt the viewer and fails at even that since you are so uninvolved in the films events. I couldn't have cared less about what was happening on screen. It left me feeling nothing at all. Not fear, joy, pain, relief, empathy, disgust - nothing. The filmmakers failed. And you would do well to stick with the brilliant original Wes Craven film. This was a lame excuse for a horror movie.
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