The Hills Have Eyes (2006)

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Audience Rating: Suitable for 18 years and over Binding: DVD EAN: 5039036027335 Format: PAL Label: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment Manufacturer: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment Number Of Items: 1 Publisher: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment Region Code: 2 Release Date: 2006-06-26 Running Time: 103 Studio: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment Theatrical Release Date: 2006
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Editorial Reviews: 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
Spotlight customer reviews: Customer Rating: Summary: Another wrong turn Comment: All the usual ingredients are here but the recipe lacks piquancy. Aja delivers nothing that we haven't seen before and his treatment of these familiar themes isn't particularly memorable either. Having said that, there's nothing badly wrong with this movie: it delivers plenty of gore and reasonable, but not memorable, levels of tension; we have the usual two-dimensional characters who are by turns incredibly stupid and quite inventive; and we have the insanely psychopathic bad guys. The problem is that I've seen it done more effectively elsewhere. Customer Rating: Summary: A Classic? Comment: After watching this film on my own, I was stunned as too how disgusting this film is yet it gets away with it in the end. I have to say I was in two very different minds about this horror, as in some ways i think it has the qualities a horror film should have to be a classic, but in another way i thought how could anyone watch this film and not feel sick throughout. The good parts of this film are the fact the family who fall victims to the stomack churning mutants are likeable and you don't want them to die, which adds to the suspense of the film. When they do die which most of them do you hate the cannibals even more which is good for a horror film if you like the goodys and hate the baddys. The story is simple which means you have more time to wonder whats going to happen next than what is happening now. Even though the film is more blood and gore than spooky and chilling there is definetly jump factors in their.The acting is also good and you have the two dogs well one which turns out to be a hero on the film, which is rare for a horror. The bad parts are there are many scenes which made me feel phsyically sick and i'm not squimish usually. There is a rape scene in it which i did not watch i turned it over as soon as i knew something like that was going to happen, that was not needed in the film at all. I nearly didnt put it back on, but i wanted to see if the baby survived and the dog aswell. I was glad i did as it redeemed itself after that, even making me cry at the end. Overall do not watch if you are at all squimish or easily offended. Watch if you want to see a unique horror remake and be scared. One point though, dont take it seriously at all as it is just a film, a good one if you miss out a couple of scenes. Customer Rating: Summary: pointless Comment: Wes Craven's original was good - classic low budget, imaginative horror that delivered plenty of shocks.......this however was a cliched pile of predictable nasty garbage - typical of the post-Saw school of OTT gore that fails to scare because its just so ludicrous, full of terrible acting and clueless direction....a complete waste of everyones time....particularly mine. If you're looking for genuine cinematic terror take a look at the Spanish flick .Rec, or the recent French bloodbath that was l'interieur......and leave this Turkey alone. Customer Rating: Summary: May have eyes,no plot though. Comment: I only watched this recently on the TV as I'm not prepared to shell out cash for something that I fully expect to be trash,this is,as one other reviewer said,was predictable,family take wrong turn in desert,get lost,break down and get picked off one by one by the natives (cannibals),it's the same plot as all of these films,Texas Chainsaw massacre etc. It really was just a showcase for someone's sick imagination as to how these people can be bumped off,I think nearly everyone has some implement sticking out of their head at one time or another. So in all,story is paper thin and hopelessly predictable and it's more sickening than scary,I don't dislike all these films,TCM has it's moments and SAW was clever the first time but their scripts could be written on a piece of toilet roll. Customer Rating: Summary: Nuclear Family Comment: A family travelling to California are told of a shortcut through the mountains that will get them to their destination quicker. After the tyres of their camper van are punctured they find themselves at the mercy of a group of cannibalistic survivors from Government nuclear testing, who begin to kill the family members one by one. Wes Craven's 'The Hills Have Eyes' made in 1977 is in my opinion his masterpiece. Anybody attempting a remake really would have a hard act to follow. So the fact that Alexandre Aja succeeds so admirably is quite an acievement. Apart from a few concessions to modern technology, the remake remains faithful to the original. There is also a refreshing lack of CGI effects. It may lack the raw power of Craven's original, but Aja's remake is still shocking, extremely gory and has a cohesive narrative. Where this film does score heavily is with its depiction of the radiation affected mutants and their twisted sense of family loyalty. There is real tension in the passage of the film where Doug goes in search of his kidnapped baby and walks through the mine shaft into a forgotten world, an abandoned nuclear test facility complete with charred mannaequins and example after example of unspeakable horror. So a terrific film, both taken on its own merits and in comparison to the fantastic original. 5 out of 5 More Reviews