The Hills Have Eyes 2 (Unrated Edition)
by Martin Weisz
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Actor: Daniella Alonso, Jacob Vargas, Jessica Stroup, Michael Bailey Smith, Michael McMillianDirector: Martin Weisz
Brand: TWENTIETH CENTURY FOX HOME ENT
Producer: Cody Zwieg
Producer: Jonathan Craven
Writer: Jonathan Craven
Producer: Jonathan Debin
Producer: Marianne Maddalena
Producer: Peter Locke
Writer: Wes Craven
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 5.1; English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); French (Dubbed), Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround; Spanish (Dubbed), Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround
Format: AC-3, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD-Video, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 2.35:1
Running Time: 89 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2007-07-17
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: 20th Century Fox
Movie Reviews of The Hills Have Eyes 2 (Unrated Edition)
Movie Review: Still nowhere near Craven's flicks, but far better than the first remake.
Summary: 2 Stars
The Hills Have Eyes 2 (Martin Weisz, 2007)
Weisz (60 Seconds) seems to have encountered rather virulent hatred from a good portion of the population for The Hills Have Eyes 2. Which should probably tip you off that this movie is better than the awful, awful remake it follows. After all, the American public at large has an incredibly well-documented lack of taste, especially when it comes to horror films. (Just look at at the foreign horror flicks that get a theatrical release in America as opposed to those that don't; Darkness vs. [REC]; Haute Tension vs. Saint Ange; etc.) Yes, it's still deeply rooted in horror-movie clich? and character stupidity, and the score is one of the, shall we say, least inspiring I've heard recently, but compared to the mindless rah-rah-patriot crap in the 2006 movie that made such a mockery of the original, Wes Craven-directed 1975 film, this is Oscar material.
Plot: two years after the events in the first film, an incompetent National Guard squad and their long-suffering sergeant (Snakes on a Plane's Flex Alexander) are sent to a very familiar stretch of land to deliver supplies to a scientific expedition (whom we saw getting slaughtered in the first couple of scenes). When they get there, the camp is deserted, but a weak distress call sends them off into the hills, and into a confrontation with the locals, a band of mutants who are the offspring of people trapped in the mines during the nuclear testing that went on there in the fifties.
It's straight survival horror, with any message to be found in it so badly handled that it can be safely ignored. In that regard alone it towers over the 2006 remake. The characters, while most are not fully fleshed, are at least not paper-thin attempts at archetype. The situations they're put in are things that logically follow from what came before, rather than from shameless attempts at manipulating the audience. (Well, most of the time, anyway. There's that "except the women. They'll keep 'em for breedin'." part.) Yes, better than the 2006 movie. But still, couldn't you have done something even remotely original with the material? Ooh, army men in a haunted mine. Scary. (Note: yes, I do understand the difference between the army and the national guard, thanks. "Army men" is a generic reference to the toy soldiers we all played with as kids, and the sentence is meant to be read in an eight-year-old's voice.) That said, it's at least watchable, and mildly entertaining. And, most importantly, it's not an attempt, as I had feared it would be, to remake Craven's 1985 sequel. That alone earns it quite a few brownie points. But not enough to score it a recommendation. Watch it if you have nothing better to do, or if, for some reason I will never be able to fathom, you actually liked the first remake. **
Summary of The Hills Have Eyes 2 (Unrated Edition)
National Guard soldiers stop at a New Mexican outpost only to find the isolated camp mysteriously deserted. Little do they know that these are the very hills that the ill-fated Carter family once visited, and that a tribe of cannibalistic mutants lies in wait.For die-hard horror fans, The Hills Have Eyes 2 is a knock-off remake/sequel that delivers a few queasy thrills. While it represents a minor improvement over the 1985 sequel to Wes Craven's 1977 original (you know, the one with the notorious "canine flashback"), it's yet another cookie-cutter exercise in death by stupidity, focusing its Aliens-in-the-desert plot on a scrappy, ill-tempered unit of National Guard soldiers who've been sent to investigate the first remake's hellish aftermath in the bomb-tested wastelands of Nevada. (Like its far-superior 2006 predecessor, this sequel was shot on location in Morocco.) Unfortunately these bickering recruits are an embarrassment to their inauthentic-looking uniforms, and their reckless inexperience (not to mention a tired, uninspired screenplay by Craven and his son Jonathan) makes them easy targets for the ravenous, irradiated mutants who dwell within a treacherous network of tunnels and caves. As the generically good-looking cast is reduced to a few terrorized survivors (which somehow doesn't stop costars Jessica Stroup and Daniella Alonso from looking like fashion models), music-video director Martin Weisz switches to auto-pilot in his dubious feature debut, serving up a basically plotless succession of grisly makeup FX by Howard Berger and his crack team of gore-mongers. The gross-out factor is sufficiently amusing (including one soldier pulled through a hole with one leg in the totally wrong direction), but even devoted horror connoisseurs will have to admit this is pretty lame stuff. --Jeff Shannon
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