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The Hills Have Eyes (Unrated Edition) | 
 enlarge | Director: Alexandre Aja
Actors: Ted Levine, Kathleen Quinlan, Dan Byrd, Emilie De Ravin, Michael Bailey Smith
Studio: 20th Century Fox
Category: DVD
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Rating:  273 reviews
Sales Rank: 17587
Format: Color, Dolby, Dubbed, Dvd-video, Subtitled, Widescreen, Ntsc
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled), French (Subtitled), English (Dubbed), French (Dubbed), Spanish (Dubbed)
Rating: R (Restricted)
Region: 1
Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Number Of Discs: 1
Running Time: 107 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.1 x 5.4 x 0.6
MPN: FOXD2234756D
UPC: 024543247470
EAN: 0024543247470
ASIN: B000FAOC2W
Theatrical Release Date: March 10, 2006
Release Date: June 20, 2006
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The story of a family road trip that goes terrifying 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..& they are the prey! Studio: Tcfhe Release Date: 09/09/2008 Starring: Aaron Stanford Vinessa Shaw Run time: 111 minutes Rating: Ur Director: Alexandre Aja
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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
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 Great horror flick! January 1, 2009
anonymous
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I've heard mixed reviews about this one, and that's what kept me from seeing it for some time. There have been a slew of old horror remakes, and many fail to live up to their originals. Unfortunately, I haven't seen the original recently enough to remember it (I was really young), but I liked this one enough to put it up as one of my favorite recent horror flicks! This wasn't a standard hack-and-slash gore fest. Gore was certainly present, but it wasn't the point of the film. This movie did a great job pushing the envelope of psychological terror! I think this was mainly because everything from the actors, the script, and special effects were top notch! I'm really glad I own this one, and I strongly recommend any horror fan to give it a go!
 Another wrong turn December 28, 2008
sft (UK)
All the usual ingredients are here but the recipe lacks piquancy. Aja delivers nothing that we haven't seen before and his treatment of these familiar themes isn't particularly memorable either. Having said that, there's nothing badly wrong with this movie: it delivers plenty of gore and reasonable, but not memorable, levels of tension; we have the usual two-dimensional characters who are by turns incredibly stupid and quite inventive; and we have the insanely psychopathic bad guys. The problem is that I've seen it done more effectively elsewhere.
 ..and the Hill Billies Have Knives. October 21, 2008
Sir Moneybags McBigballs the 3rd (Oxfordvilletonshireburg)
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.
Doug The Cell Phone Clerk Turns Into Rambo And Kills Mutant Cannibals! October 16, 2008
J. B. Hoyos (Chesapeake, VA)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Surprisingly enough, the remake of "The Hills Have Eyes" is more enjoyable than the original. The overall setting and plot are very similar. A normal, lovable family is traveling through the Nevada desert. Their vehicle breaks down and they are beset upon by cannibals. However, the remake has more details (and I'm not referring to gore, although there is plenty) that make it a more realistic, faster paced thrill ride. The opening scene is both shocking and horrifying. The viewer soon realizes that this remake will be more violent than the original.
Mild mannered cell phone retailer Doug Burkowski (Aaron Stanford of "X-Men: The Last Stand") steals the film when he must turn into Rambo in order to get his baby back from the mutant cannibals who abducted her while his father-in-law was being roasted alive. This lean, wiry built man kills a lot of tough mutants. He also discovers a crater where dozens of vehicles have been stored - their owners slaughtered by mutants - and an eerie, fabricated town occupied by mannequins. This is the town that the government was using for testing nuclear bombs. Now it is occupied by hideously deformed, inbred miners who suffered radiation damage while hiding in the mines.
The entire film has a creepy Twilight Zone atmosphere that wasn't found in the original. Furthermore, "The Hills Have Eyes" remake was highly influenced by "Wrong Turn," another film involving a cannibalistic family - this one living in the secluded woods of West Virginia.
If you enjoy cannibalistic horror classics involving inbred families such as "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre," "Wrong Turn," "Raw Meat," etc., then you must see Wes Craven's remake of "The Hills Have Eyes." After watching this film, you will never again travel through the deserts of Southwest America without carrying extra gasoline and good maps. Never take short cuts, especially if they are recommended by a grizzled, toothless yokel who owns a gasoline station where the telephone doesn't work.
The Nuclear Family... October 11, 2008
Bindy Sue Frønkünschtein (under the rubble)
The Carter family, led by tough, ex-cop Big Bob (Ted Levine from Silence Of The Lambs) and his wife (Kathleen Quinlan from Twilight Zone: The Movie) are on their final vacation together. Along the way, they have an "accident", bringing their trip to a sudden stop in the middle of the desert wasteland of New Mexico. The situation becomes increasingly desperate when another family- a savage band of mutants- moves in on the unsuspecting Carters. I am a big fan of Wes Craven's original HILLS, and I fully expected to hate this remake. However, Alexandre Aja (High Tension) has retained enough basic elements from the 1975 version, while adding some interesting new twists. The atmosphere is tense and ominous. The characters, whether sympathetic or malevolent, are well presented. I definitely like the updated mutations. This clan of freakish murderers is pretty frightening! Rather than going for the neo-cavedweller look of the original, Aja's mutants are hideously deformed, genetic abominations. An inbred bunch of cannibalistic horrors. In other words, they look the part! I highly recommend THE HILLS HAVE EYES to any / all lovers of well-made, ultra-violent monster movies. You'll be pleasantly sickened...
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