The Hills Have Eyes
by Alexandre Aja
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Actor: Aaron Stanford, Dan Byrd, Emilie de Ravin, Kathleen Quinlan, Vinessa ShawDirector: Alexandre Aja
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); English (Dubbed); French (Dubbed); Spanish (Dubbed)
Format: Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD-Video, Full Screen, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 107 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2006-06-20
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: 20th Century Fox
Movie Reviews of The Hills Have Eyes
Movie Review: ..and the Hill Billies Have Knives.
Summary: 4 Stars
Hills is a shocking and brutal thriller that occasionally comes within a stones throw of the torture-porn genre of horror (which I detest). What keeps this 'mutant-cannibal' gore-fest from slipping over the brink is the competent acting and cathartic final act.
The setup is handled evenly and according to a tried and tested formula. Family takes road trip - dad takes shortcut - car dies (or is killed) - family members get disemboweled. Where Hills deviates from the formula is in its willingness to break the accepted 'rules' of this sort of film. It is not often that the monster in a horror movie actually rapes one of the central characters. Be prepared for some truly unsettling violence.
If you can stomach the first act you'll be rewarded by a thrilling second and redemptive third. The finale wipes your conscience clean of the simulated brutality you've just consumed for entertainments sake, but some images will stay with you regardless.
The unrated-DVD includes Commentary and Making-Of as well as a few accessory featurettes.
Summary of The Hills Have Eyes
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.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
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