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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
| CATEGORY: | DVD |
| DIRECTOR: | Alexandre Aja |
| THEATRICAL RELEASE DATE: | 10 March, 2006 |
| MANUFACTURER: | 20th Century Fox |
| MPAA RATING: | NC-17 |
| FEATURES: | Color, Dolby, Dubbed, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC |
| TYPE: | Horror, Horror / Sci-Fi / Fantasy, Movie |
| MEDIA: | DVD |
| # OF MEDIA: | 1 |
| UPC: | 024543247470 |
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Customer Reviews of The Hills Have Eyes (Unrated Edition)
Solid Horror Film - But Rated Version is Better (read my review to see why) My video store only had the unrated version available to rent: <
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>This is indeed a good horror movie, but the unrated version takes the rape scenes a little too far. I found that part of the film to be quite disturbing. <
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>But if one skips through that part or gets the rated version, I think this film has enough guts, gore, and "jump out of your seat" moments to warrant a 4-star rating. <
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>Michael Bailey Smith, a former Dallas Cowboy, is a very good bad guy, if that makes any sense. He plays Pluto (big deformed monster guy who kills people with an axe) in the movie, and this guy's film career is as long as list of failed writings. He's been in around 70 films or more! He doesn't have a lot of dialogue in this one though. <
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>Tom Bower (118 films this guy has done) plays the creepy gas station attendant who offers the traveling family a very bad shortcut on their trip. Even though his part was very small, he really managed to make it very memorable. <
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>Ted Levine plays Big Bob, the father of a family who ends up wishing he hadn't taken that shortcut, or for that matter, taken them on this long and very dangerous adventure in the desert. He doesn't have a long shelf life in the film, but I think he did a fantastic job with what he had to work with. <
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>Kathleen Quinlan plays the wife (Ethel) of Big Bob, and she is impressive as the woman trying to hold her family together as they seem to be growing apart; as most families eventually do. <
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>Dan Byrd plays Bobby, a kid who has to learn to grow up quite fast on this vacation from Hell. I think I remember this kid from a "Joan of Arcadia" show. He makes the transition from scared youth to angry revenge seeker quite well. The scene where he hugs his sister when she begins weeping is one of the most memorable scenes in the film. His sister had been through enough to drive anyone insane. She needed to know someone was there to protect her and help her, and Bobby let her know he was. Yep, best part of the movie, by far! <
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>Emilie de Ravin plays Bobby's sister, Brenda, and she is amazingly convincing throughout the entire film. Because her character was so likable, believable, and human, the rape scene (hopefully not present in the rated version) is almost unbearable. Her role in this film made the film work. <
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>Aaron Stanford is the liberal turned sadistic, revenge seeking Republican (LOL, I'm joking) who decided it is time to get his kidnapped baby back and start swinging axes at the bad guys. He is good, but in no way is he as good in the film as de Raven. He needed to show a bit more emotion when Pluto almost kills him 50 times! <
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>Robert Joy plays Lizard, another of the sadistic and deformed parakeet eating freaks. I hate you Robert Joy! I wish she had hit you with that frying pan 100 times. Just kidding, I know you were only acting. <
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>Laura Ortiz (Ruby) has piercing eyes and a great role in this movie. I love how she was able to portray what needed to be displayed on the screen without ever speaking a word. <
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Better than the original.
The hills have eyes is a classic all its own. But when i heard news of a remake, i was thrilled. It was made in the 70s, and it really good for its time, but it needed uplifting. The remake does that. With all the blood, gore, and talent the original needed, and Wes Craven was still involved with the remake. I love this movie and am thrilled that its on dvd.
A MUST SEE!!!
This horror movie has everything a horror fan craves: blood, fright, gross and sick elements, and a couple of hot chicks. This movie reminded me a lot of "Wrong Turn". Instead of the mountains of West Virginia, it was the hills of New Mexico. I thoroughly enjoyed it. The beginning was a little slow, but the middle and ending more than made up for it. My name is Aaron Rayburn, author of The Shadow God and Spiritual Sorrow, and I highly recommend this movie to all horror buffs across the world!