Alicia I love this movie so much

SpuffyWeb Sadly Over-hyped

Exoticalot People are voting emotionally.

Matialth Good concept, poorly executed.

haley_hime I rented this movie Winter break of my junior year to celebrate exams being over. I'd heard about this movie while researching the infamous Sawney Beane, so I decided to check it out. The 1st 10 minutes were boring, but then it got good. Lots of gore. But as the movie went on......plot-holes. I mean, she finds a random huntsman like dude. WTF, where'd he come from?! The only good scenes in the flick were the scissors, and anything with Vaz or Erika in it.But, they could've done better. Location wise. Mojave desert?! The true Beane Clan lived in Scotland. Dammit Leigh, get it right!! Though Sawney acted like I imagined him too, all perverted and whatnot. XD Vaz Andreas was so hot in it. Seriously, he was sexy. And Erika Rhoby was as adorable was she was hungry. Heather Confornto was not a very good actress though. They could have found someone better.

Paul Andrews Hillside Cannibals start as five teens arrive in a 'middle of nowhere' type desert location 50 miles from the nearest town to go cave spelunking, they set up camp for the night but are attacked by a group of vicious cannibals that live in the caves they intended to go spelunking in (isn't spelunking a great word? I think there should be more opportunities in the English language to use the word spelunking). Three are killed right off the bat, Bill (Tom Nagel) is taken captive while Linda (Heather Conforto) is torn between escaping herself & rescuing her boyfriend. Stupidly she decides to do the later which sort of ends in tears for everyone...Directed by Leigh Scott who also played the role of Sawney Bean/David in the film Hillside Cannibals has a terrible reputation & I can't find a single person who has said a good word about it & once you actually sit through it you'll fully understand why it's considered such a terrible film & why it has such a (deserved) low user rating on the IMDb. The script by Steve Bevilacqua is a straight forward & shameless The Hills Have Eyes (the original 1977 one & the 2006 remake) rip-off/cash-in which takes a pretty simplistic story & makes it even simpler, at least The Hills Have Eyes has a proper family, good character's & the cannibal killers themselves were given some personality but Hillside Cannibals gives us some bland faceless teens who aren't even given names in the film proper (the names in my ploy synopsis I got from the IMDb cast list & since Linda & Bill were at the top I assume they were the stars), they do stupid things, the plot revolves around & takes place in one dark cave which becomes repetitive, the predictable attempt at a plot twist will surprise no-one while it has an ending which will make you think 'what was the point in me watching that crap'. Also the cannibals themselves are a big problem, they don't ever speak & instead just grunt & make noises at each other which means there's not much dialogue & it's hard to tell them apart, it's hard to make out what their trying to do or why they are doing it & it's just not much fun to watch a film where a lot of the time people communicate using grunts & groans which mean absolutely nothing to the average human being. Oh, one more thing if the cannibals can't speak English how do they know what the Sheriff is saying to them?Director Scott turns in an intensely annoying film, the majority of it takes place at night in a cave where the only light source is a burning fire which leaves massive areas of the frame totally in darkness. The flickering low level orange colour scheme is horrible to sit through for 80 straight minutes & I don't know if it was just me but I found it almost impossible at times to see what was going on, I couldn't tell one stinking cannibal apart from another because they never spoke, they weren't given names & they all looked almost exactly the same in the horrible low level lighting & dark caves. Hillside Cannibals is one of the worst looking films I've seen in quite a while & in this day & age of high definition, DVD & digital cable TV there is no excuse to make a film which is so poorly lit it's difficult to understand what's happening on screen & be uncertain who character's are. Gore wise this is a big disappointment, again maybe the lighting had something to do with it but there's not much blood or violence here at all. Someone has a couple of fingers cut off with a pair of scissors, someone is sliced in half, someone has a machete stuck in their throat while someone else has a knife stuck in theirs, someone has both is legs cut off, one cannibal slices the skin off a couple of corpses faces which he then wears (in a The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974) rip-off) & the cannibals eat some severed fingers. To be honest it's pretty unimpressive stuff, Cannibal Ferox (1981) this ain't!With a supposed budget of about $600,000 this obviously didn't have a lot of money spent on it but even so that's no excuse to turn in such bad film. Many filmmakers have turned in better films on less money than that I'm afraid. Apparently shot in Yermo in California in the Calico ghost town whatever that is. The acting sucks big time from nobody that will ever appear in anything worthwhile.Hillside Cannibals is crap, everyone who has seen it says so & it's very easy to understand why. No entertainment, poorly lit & shot, terrible character's, clichéd & predictable plot, virtually no dialogue, not enough gore & an awful ending. Not a film I would recommend seeing.

reach4xtc There's some scary stuff here – the Blockbuster guy doesn't know what he's talking about. He's only rating the box and didn't see the movie. This is an ultra-low-budget desert-cannibal flick that takes the Scottish cannibal clan and puts them in the Mojave Desert. They obviously couldn't afford to go to Scotland but it's a modern day Sawney Bean tribe with ragged kilts and tons of prosthetic scar tissue. Sawney Bean never really existed – it's an English urban legend. There's no real historical basis so they clearly went with tons of blood and guts. Not a whole lot of story either but it is genuinely gross. I loved the violence, these wackos sure like their fingers. I liked this more than the recent "Hills Have Eyes" remake, which sucked big time. This movie is really inventively disgusting. There's lots of violence, some dubious acting but it's all worth it for the ending, which is sick and twisted and cool.

doomsyer Man, oh man.....what a joke of a movie. Was this supposed to be taken seriously (well, as serious as a movie about cannibalism can be taken)? The gore was there, but done by what I would believe to be the bottom tier of the SFX profession. The acting blew....Z list actors and actresses reading cue cards.The "cannibals" looked like (to steal from another poster) rejects from Gilligans Island. White frat guys and sorority girls, dressed in grass skirts and rolled in dirt. This is the "horrible cannibalistic family". Ooooooooooooooooh, scary. They live in a cave in the desert and play with dolls. Oh, THE TERROR!!! They talk in their own language, which goes something like this, "ooga booga", "ugh", "woomba", "blah blah blah". The Chills are running up my spine! Yet, another turd in the toilet bowl from Asylum.....3 out of 10, and that is being generous due to the laugh-ability factor.