Synopsis
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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Cast
- Aaron StanfordDoug
- Kathleen QuinlanEthel
- Vinessa ShawLynn
- Ted LevineBig Bob
- Emilie de RavinBrenda
- Dan ByrdBobby
- Tom BowerGas Station Attendant
- Billy DragoPapa Jupiter
- Robert JoyLizard
- Desmond AskewBig Brain
Recommendations
- 80
Film Threat
When Aja really starts in on the brutal slayings, he spares no one any comfort at all. - 70
The Hollywood Reporter
This remake of the 1977 Wes Craven cult classic is brutally horrific. And that's a compliment. - 70
Variety
Besides proving to be a faithful mimic of Craven's filmmaking, Aja pours on the gore. But where Aja's version really leaps beyond Craven's both atmospherically and on the violence scale is in the second hour. - 63
ReelViews
The Hills Have Eyes gets points for gore and general creepiness, and for occasional periods of tension, but it's not scary enough to linger long in the subconscious. - 60
Empire
Fans of the original won't be disappointed, but ultimately it's just another decent, arguably unnecessary, '70s horror remake. - 58
Entertainment Weekly
Where Craven and his director, Alexandre Aja, may have miscalculated is in making the genetically damaged demons, with their flesh-potato foreheads and minimal verbal skills, into monster action figures who take vengeance on the world that created them. They're not scary because they're victims themselves. - 50
Rolling Stone
What good is a wallow in sicko sadism if you take all the fun out of it? - 42
The A.V. Club
Thanks to assured direction and a fine cast, Hills isn't terrible, only terribly unnecessary.
