The lucky ones die first.
Based on Wes Craven's 1977 suspenseful cult classic, 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.
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- Body horror
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Grave, classical in form, bleak and resolved.
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- CinemaSerfon TMDB · Apr 20226/10
Aside from some pretty significant plausibility issues, this is actually quite a decent shock horror. A family stop off at gas station where the elderly attendant tells them of a dirt track shortcut across the desert that will save them a few hours. Towing their caravan, off they go, but when a puncture causes them to lose control and crash into a big rock, they begin to realise that they are not the only folks nearby - and I use the term "folks" loosely. What now follows sees our travellers terrorised by some hideously mutated people who had been left there ever since the US Government carried out nuclear tests. Reduced to just 3, "Big Bob" (Ted Levine) and his faithful hound have to track down his kidnapped baby grandchild - a perilous journey indeed. Now quite why they decided to take the shortcut is just one of a few dodgy decision taken by the "Carter" family that made me wonder, and rendered the plot increasingly silly as we progress to an ending that seems to drag on a bit too long. That said, there are plenty of jump moments and Alexandre Aja manages to keep the annoyingly screaming hysteria to a minimum. Once it eventually gets going, it becomes decently paced and the phot
Read the whole review on TMDB - Gimlyon TMDB · Oct 20188/10
One of the best horror remakes to come out in this most recent trend. Rather than ignoring its source material, or taking the other extreme of drearily rehashing it scene for scene, Aja and Levasseur's _The Hills Have Eyes_ simply expands and improves upon the original. _Final rating:★★★★ - Very strong appeal. A personal favourite._
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Cast
- Aaron StanfordDoug
- Dan ByrdBobby
- Emilie de RavinBrenda
- Vinessa ShawLynn
- Ted LevineBig Bob
- Kathleen QuinlanEthel
- Tom BowerGas Station Attendant
- Billy DragoPapa Jupiter
- Robert JoyLizard
- Desmond AskewBig Brain
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- Alexandre AjaDirector
- Grégory LevasseurScreenplay
- Alexandre AjaScreenplay
- Maxime AlexandreDirector of Photography
- tomandandyOriginal Music Composer
- Andy MilburnOriginal Music Composer
- Tom HajduOriginal Music Composer
- BaxterEditor
- Peter LockeProducer
- Wes CravenProducer
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