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The Hills Have Eyes (Unrated Edition)

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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

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.

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272 Reviews

Love it (66%) | Hate it (25%) | On the Fence (8%) | Didn't Rate it (1%)

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From: Amazon Posted: Sep 01, 2008 Type: User Review

so brutal and grotesque , revenge is particularly gratifying

my only reservation with this gripping and wrenching picture is the downcast last frames . these good folks had prevailed over so very much adversity and horror , i wished for a different outcome for them . true the film is not absolute of their...
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5.00/5

From: Amazon Posted: Aug 26, 2008 Type: User Review

The Hills Have Eyes

If you like true horror, realistic blood and gore and a great story line, this movie is for you!
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5.00/5

From: Amazon Posted: Aug 17, 2008 Type: User Review

Very Disturbing

I found this movie very disturbing. I enjoy horror movies but this was very hard to watch. In it there is a camper scene where a young girl gets raped and while all that is taking place a baby is crying all through the scene. 2 things I hate to...
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From: Amazon Posted: Jul 27, 2008 Type: User Review

Realistic pain!

Perfect! special effects are so real. I see it 2 times by month with the same expression in my face. I'm wondering how is possible the perfect scenes has not been prohibited. I have seen the Trauma series & I can tell you this is almost like those...
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5.00/5

From: Amazon Posted: Jun 05, 2008 Type: User Review

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...
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4.00/5

From: Amazon Posted: May 01, 2008 Type: User Review

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...
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5.00/5

From: Amazon Posted: Apr 10, 2008 Type: User Review

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...
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From: Amazon Posted: Apr 06, 2008 Type: User Review

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...
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From: Amazon Posted: Mar 23, 2008 Type: User Review

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...
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From: Amazon Posted: Dec 14, 2007 Type: User Review

Repulsive beyond words.

I got about half way through this piece of trash before I had it and stopped. It is a gore-fest for the sake of gore-fest. Just disgusting. This is not horror, this is just revulsion and attempts at shock through mindless special effects. Vile....
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1.00/5

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