The Hills Have Eyes (Unrated Edition)
by Alexandre Aja
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Actor: Dan Byrd, Emilie de Ravin, Kathleen Quinlan, Michael Bailey Smith, Ted LevineDirector: Alexandre Aja
Writer: Alexandre Aja
Producer: Cody Zwieg
Producer: Frank Hildebrand
Producer: Inigo Lezzi
Producer: Marianne Maddalena
Writer: Gr?gory Levasseur
Writer: Wes Craven
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 5.1; English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); English (Dubbed), Dolby Digital 5.1; French (Dubbed); Spanish (Dubbed), Dolby Digital 2.1
Format: Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD-Video, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 2.35:1
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 (Unrated Edition)
Movie Review: Why?
Summary: 1 Stars
First, I have to admit I'm not a horror fan but I am a fan of great plots. This movie has a very generic plot. "Monsters" attacking people. This movie is all about shock value and gore, which I see no point in. With all the great reviews, I sat through this waste of time waiting for a great twist at the end. There was none. The people got away. Wow! To enjoy the movie just a little more I've come up with my own ending...
The little girl who saves the baby lives. The baby's father is grateful to the little girl. The family's trailer & truck are blown up so they have no way to leave. The little girl brings the family into the hills to live.
This ending would have provided the happy ending, the needed plot twist and a better open ending for a second movie.
Summary of The Hills Have Eyes (Unrated Edition)
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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