The Hills Have Eyes

I'm not gonna bash people for liking this movie. because i wanted to like it, its definately my kind of movie. but i nearly threw up with the trailer scene and the rape. i thought wes craven was pretty good at filmaking but to put this into a movie is disgusting. Most of the girls i know were haunted by that scene days afterwards. i certainly dont speak for all women, but i have never felt so degrated by watching that scene. i will never watch another wes craven movie again. i wonder if people would feel differently if a man was raped? maybe i'm being overly dramatic, but are we that desensitized to women being raped that watching a disgusting mutant commit the rape is entertainment? it makes me sick

First, I have to admit I'm not a horror fan but I am a fan of great plots. This movie has a very generic plot. "Monsters" attacking people. This movie is all about shock value and gore, which I see no point in. With all the great reviews, I sat through this waste of time waiting for a great twist at the end. There was none. The people got away. Wow! To enjoy the movie just a little more I've come up with my own ending... The little girl who saves the baby lives. The baby's father is grateful to the little girl. The family's trailer & truck are blown up so they have no way to leave. The little girl brings the family into the hills to live. This ending would have provided the happy ending, the needed plot twist and a better open ending for a second movie.

Good horror films are hard to come by these days. During the course of the current decade we've seen a lot of recycled trash over and over again. They don't scare us anymore, we can literally predict what's going to happen next and who's going to die, the plots are full of holes, the acting is bad, etc. Although critics and some moviegoers were decidedly mixed about this film, I personally loved it and it now ranks as one of my favorite horror films of this decade next to my other favorite horror films of this decade like the Resident Evil films, Silent Hill, The Descent, the Dawn of the Dead remake, Jeepers Creepers 1 and 2, and the Final Destination trilogy. The Hills Have Eyes is one of the most disturbing and gory films ever made, and it will shock you (And I'm a person who hardly has any emotion). WHAT IT'S ABOUT: The Carter family is on a cross-country trip to California, and on their way through New Mexico they stop at a gas station in the middle of nowhere and owner of the sta... Read more

Here's one for the books! I find it interesting that a modern-day horror remake has gotten so many positive reviews, and I for one am happy! For I, too, think "The Hills Have Eyes" is an excellent modern-day horror movie! Early this past summer before I saw the movie, I watched a fan-made preview on Youtube and was stunned at the intensity and gore even in the preview! I knew I was in for something big when I got this. And wow, was I ever correct! "The Hills Have Eyes" is EXTREME and pushes the boundaries with visual shock. The mutants that live in the hills of the desert are all pretty terrifying and brutal, and there's LOTS of gore ALL throughout the movie. And that's one thing about this movie that I find really interesting: The fact that it can combine being really scary and MEGA gory at the same time! Most horror movies incline towards being really scary, but not having such an intense amount of gore, OR rely heavily on gore but not be as scary. "The Hills Have Eyes" manages to... Read more

I am a huge horror fan. I think the original Hills Have Eyes is a classic. So I was sad when I found the new one is an empty headed waste. Remakes are best when they find a new angle on a story, or have something to add to what the first film did. Great remakes such as The Thing or The Fly work because the filmmakers created movies that use the original as a starting point and then go off in their own direction - much like the remake of Dawn of the Dead. Hills have eyes is almost a shot for shot redo in the vein of Psycho at times. It misses the entire point of the original film - that we are only as civilized as our world allows. None of the interesting parallel between the two families remains (one from the 'burbs the other a clan of cannibal mutants). Instead we just get loads and loads of gore without any impact whatsoever. I like gory movies as much as the next person. I love Blood Feast, Romero's zombie films, Re-animator, the movies of Lucio Fulci, etc. But those films h... Read more