The Hills Have Eyes, Part 2
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Movie Reviews of The Hills Have Eyes, Part 2
Movie Review: Weakquel to a B-Movie Drive-In Classic
Summary: 2 Stars
Hills II, as has been said before, was an attempt to repeat the success not only of the first flick, but also of the up-and-coming Jason and Halloween franchises -- released just as the Freddie franchise was starting. Actually, the film plays well if watched right after the first, but it cannot stand on its own.
It contains some of the now standard cliches of the 80s slasher flicks: the guys are immature, the women are intuitive, but discounted, and the post-adolescent sex/skinny dipping/shower scenes are de rigeur. Also, the most vulnerable character lives (this time, a pretty, but blind, young woman). Plenty of 80s hair and fashion, but lacking the suspensefulness of the first. In the original, we WANT some of the victims to be killed because they're so stupid and obnoxious. In Hills II, they're just immature.
Movie Review: Eh, it was an alright sequel!
Summary: 3 Stars
After the events of the original movie, a few of the survivors along with bikers take a bus-trip to a bike race near the desert where the incident with the hillbillies occured, as they take a shortcut by accident the evil cannibalistic hillbilly family sets a trap for them.
An OK sequel to a Wes Craven 70's cult horror classic which this is also directed by him, some of it's mostly flashbacks to the original movie at parts just like "Silent Night Deadly Night 2". Nice to see everyone's favorite cult deformed actor Michael Berryman back as Pluto the not-so-lovable mutant cannibal, it's a fair sequel but can't be as good as the original or the recent remake.
The DVD has decent picture with miminal grain at times and decent sound with only one extra which is a trailer to the movie.
Movie Review: Don't waste your time
Summary: 2 Stars
The movie was only 90 minutes, but at least 20 of those were flash backs from the first one. The hillbilly cannibals are all of a sudden hillbilly cannibals on motorbikes. And NO ONE dies until the last 20 minutes. Need I say more?Movie Review: ehh it got old/boring
Summary: 3 Stars
the movie wouldnt have been as bad if it wasint filmed like friday the 13th because in my opinion them movies suck. it was like there was too much walking around and investigating then there was chasing , theres only one real chase scene when pluto or w/e steals the dirt bike, which is a cool scene but after that it was just them walking around being followed by random kills. and the ending was just liek teh 1st one except they get some dumbass to go into a bus for what ever reason and it blows up and hre comes runing out and falls down a well. Its a bad movie friday the 13th is better and i hate them movies.Movie Review: Not as great as it could have been...
Summary: 3 Stars
I've seen far worse horror films ('Boogeyman', anyone?) than this one, but it still was not one of Wes Craven's best. I'll spare the synopsis since everyone else has written it out, but add a few of the film's strengths and weaknesses.
The story line is rather interesting, though a little too convenient. It's far too coincidental that Ruby becomes civilized then through circumstance ends up in the exact same area from which she escaped.
Michael Berryman and Janus Blythe were excellent. Their performances were two of the three professional (and watchable) ones in the film. Pluto and Ruby were two of my favorite characters in the first film, and I was hoping the second film would at least do them justice. After the opening sequence it all went downhill, but Janus Blythe and Michael Berryman gave strong, solid performances, fitting easily into their roles.
The rest of the cast was, sadly, awful. These people were among the most wooden and obnoxious I have seen in any film, horror or otherwise. One guy was so completely idiotic my 17 year-old son and I both cheered when he was flattened by a boulder. No need to ask which one. Ten minutes into the movie you'll know. And you'll cheer too.
Robert Houston was also very convincing and natural in the role of Bobby. Bobby was clearly still haunted by the trauma he suffered in the desert, and the scene in which he was in session with his psychologist was extremely believable. If only the rest of the film had been as strong...
I gave it three stars, one for Michael Berryman, Janus Blythe and Robert Houston.
The rest of the film is a cure for insomnia.