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The Hills Have Eyes (Unrated Edition)
Starring: Aaron Stanford, Kathleen Quinlan, Vinessa Shaw, Emilie de Ravin, Dan Byrd Directed By: Alexandre Aja Average Rating: Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1 Audience Rating: R (Restricted) Binding: DVD Format: Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD-Video, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC Label: 20th Century Fox Number of Items: 1 Region Code: 1 Release Date: June 20, 2006 Running Time: 108 minutes Theatrical Release Date: March 10, 2006
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
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.
Eyes ThaT Watch .. What Is 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 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.
A worthy remake! In the New Mexican desert, a family is taking a vacation to California until their tires bust out leaving them strandard. They decide to camp for the night to fix it, unfortunately a clan of mutant hillbilly hermits terrorize them into a night and day of living hell.
Suprisingly terrific remake of the 1977 Wes Craven cult classic is a nasty and grim delight from Alexandre Aja ("High Tension"). Starring Ted Levine ("Silence of the Lambs"), Billy Drago, Vinessa Shaw and Kathleen Quinland, this is a gory and over the top reimagining thanks to the director and executive producer Wes Craven whom also did the original classic. It manages to keep some of the gritiness and disturbing elements that made the original a masterpiece, this movie does explain how the mutants became to be. This is one of the few worthy horror remakes of the 2000's with "Dawn of the Dead" and "The Ring", although "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre" and "House of Wax" were decent but this is probably the best of the bunch.
This DVD contains the unrated cut with never before seen footage especially some graphic violence that was cut out to avoid an NC-17 rating. The extras include two audio commentaries, a documentary on behind the scenes of the film, and production diaries.
The Hills Have Eyes [Unrated Edition] A really good re-make of the classic tale of terror.Some of the most graghic death scenes I've seen in a long time,outdoing even the original movie.Although the unrated version wasn't all that different than the standard version;differing only in the man burning scene being more graphic.The attack on the trailer is much better than the one in the original movie.An awesome movie!
Holy Sh...yikes. I used to like traveling through the desert. Eddie Murphy was right, us white folks are stupid. Mr. Murphy said that white folks will buy a house even if it is haunted... And it is almost always the white folks going down vacant roads in the middle of nowhere, blatantly declaring their right to do so. The driver of the family in this movie is an arsehole; if he were alone, I'd cheer him on.
However the entire family is at the mercy of the idiot in the driver's seat, so I want to jump into the scene and say, "turn around!" Yet that would take the action, suspense, and Intensity out of the movie. If the characters ever listened to me there would be nothing to scare people.
Because no one convinces the idiot to turn around, all hell breaks loose, and everyone is stranded with mutant psychopaths who seem to find us white folks tasty.
This movie is freaky, bizarre, suspenseful, and horrific. Wolf Creek (Unrated) [HD DVD] only has one Psycho, but this flick is full of 'em ! One word: Intense.
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