TrueJoshNight Truly Dreadful Film

SpuffyWeb Sadly Over-hyped

Pluskylang Great Film overall

Curapedi I cannot think of one single thing that I would change about this film. The acting is incomparable, the directing deft, and the writing poignantly brilliant.

fando No question about it, the "original" version of The Hills Have Eyes part 2 is the nadir in Wes Craven's career and probably the most abysmal horror film ever made. First of all, I really enjoyed this film, much more than part 1 which is, as many others have noted already, nothing but a remake, maybe with better resources and a greater display of "style," whatever that is. Given the fact that Craven himself produced the first one, let's take into consideration that he was not only involved this second time around as a producer but as the writer. He created the concept. The saying goes, whoever did it first, they did it better. Remakes are never necessary. Proof of the effectiveness of their inspiration source is the fact they exist in the first place. The pace is great, the exploration and display of the lengths human beings can go to hurt each other bear Craven's trademark, at least the one who created Last House on the Left (1972) and Te Hills Have Eyes (1978), which brought horror down to earth, changed it forever and became the most imitated films of all time, pretty much. The science fiction angle in Aja's film ruined the whole experience for me, because it wasn't humans vs. themselves anymore, but in this one, it does have a purpose, it's not overdone and brings the plot back to the animal nature of human beings from his greatest films: the animal who puts intelligence to serve his instincts. Execution? Honestly, when Craven was in the director's chair, that never was the main point. Just as Ed Wood in Tim Burton's biopic, with him it was all about the Big Picture. Weisz does just the right job; no more, no less. Too bad at the time he hadn't made "Haute Tension" or something like that, I guess. Rushed script? The Last House on the Left took probably only two weeks to write... so what? They would've made a great mistake if they had the female survivor from part one back on this one. The fact that it bears no resemblance whatsoever to what was served us back in 1985 is by no means a bad thing. This is the Hills Have Eyes part 2 that should have been made back then. Sadly, you only get one shot in life.

TonyMontana96 (Originally seen many years ago) I have never seen the first one, and I never will, because this absolute pile of garbage is among the nastiest pieces of inhumane garbage I have ever seen. This time the army are attacked by vile creatures, the creatures slash them, stab them and you get the rest, but what makes it even more revolting is the fact one of them rape's a woman so she can have baby mutants, I could have vomited, if I weren't familiar with the ugliness in these alleged horror films. I hate these film's with a passion, film's like this and Wolf Creek and the Halloween remakes are designed to entertain people while people are brutalised for the studio's profit. I hate every one of these vicious exercises in sadism, they are repulsive, nasty pieces of filth. 0/10

Scarecrow-88 A group of inept National Guard soldiers (soldiers, used loosely), made up of kids almost right out of high school, are commissioned to a New Mexico desert after their commander in charge informs them of a deliverance of supplies to a scientific outpost. This desert just so happens to be where atomic testing was done, and there are still mutant inbred cannibal killers in them there hills. The film (a sequel and basic follow up to Alexander Aja's remake to Wes Craven's film from '77) is essentially soldiers (..snicker, snicker…) versus those grotesque atomic anomalies that wield weapons made from the environment. Sometimes the soldiers are dangerous to each other inadvertently (their commanding officer is shot during gunfire aimed at the mutants), but their inexperience (we see a training exercise exploit their fundamental inefficiencies in combat) doesn't help them, either. The mutants, with their cavernous hideouts and hideaways, are only a detriment to themselves, as well, often succumbing to their brute violent whims in trying to attack the soldiers who have guns at their disposal. Too much time is spent inside the hills, where it can be quite dark and cramped. Good practical effects and gore helps, I guess, but the film isn't as shocking as Aja's prior film or as much a gut punch in terms of those killed this go-around (a family unit is obliterated while the sequel offers a rag-tag bunch of kids not yet ready for the combat they are faced against). The bit with the victim found in a latrine is certainly not expected, though. A rape does exist against one of the tougher female soldiers (her development is that she looks often at a recording on her phone of her boy), which might be difficult to watch. Jessica Stroup looks out of place as the other female soldier among the group, while Lee Thompson Young (the young man who committed suicide while on the show Rizzoli & Isles) is the unfortunate token African-American of the cast who, despite her integrity and leadership skills, doesn't fare well. Michael McMillian has this inexplicable part as someone you wouldn't expect to see in the army…debates with his commanding officer and seemingly not fit to carry a gun (and generally annoying everyone) doesn't help his cause. Jacob Vargas is the hothead ready to shoot first and ask questions later. Amazingly, I expected more to die but the film offers the proposition that at least three survived (and not the candidates among the soldiers that seemed battle ready, perhaps a reason of irony). Surprisingly, Wes and his son put together the story for this rather average and forgettable horror show, which seems fit to be Wrong Turn 14. Morocco has never looked quite so intimidating, though.I think there's a sense that the Cravens were using the mutants to symbolize the unpredictable nature of battle in a place that very well might resemble Afghanistan or Iraq.

charles-71224 After watching the hills have eyes remake I never expected anything spectacular, however this is probably one of the worst films I have ever seen.It's the typical rather than stick together and run away let's all do our own thing in dark tunnels with no backup plan. It truly is utter crap, even the creepies are sub standard. It's almost like a horror goonies, but not funny or good. The acting is so bad it's not even ironic, wes craven just seems happy to put his name to anything in the horror genre. Seriously pick another film any things got to be better than this dribble.