Campy Gore

Rating: 6/10 (12 March 2006)

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"The Hills Have Eyes" is pretty much a campy gore fest. The characters including the dogs act so stupidly its funny.
I did not know that this was actually a remake of a Wes Craven film by the same title. So when I saw that whole ohhhh its people with radiation living like savages and getting back at normal people for nuking them, it seemed outdated. The whole nuke theme (just one of the themes) made perfect sense during the height of the Cold War, where this type of freaky radio active scenario seemed very plausible.
I think a more contemporary theme with some type of poisonous gas or what have you would have been more appropriate.
I was not too keen on the pacifist hippy, more like yuppie character of Doug Bukowski as played by Aaron Stanford. His character did have change and became much stronger at the end but the bumblings and the stupidity of the character, going after the savages with a baseball bat just didn't make up for it.
The Brenda Carter character as played by Emilie de Ravin was a compelling character. After being raped by one of the radioactive people Brenda helps her brother defeat their tormentors. It was refreshing to see de Ravin not play her frumpy character from the TV series "Lost" I could go on and on about the film and its characters such as Big Bob the father as played by Ted Levine but I wont.
If you simply love gore and action then this is your film. If you don't want to sit on a theater thinking to yourself why are they so stupid, then avoid this flick. Its not a horrible film but not a great film either C+/B- grade.
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