Beyond horror, into total terror and madness, the Hills keep on having Eyes in the new millennium...

Rating: 9/10 (29 August 2006)

*The Hills Have SPOILERS* The Carter family - patriarch Big Bob (Ted Levine), matriarch Ethel (Kathleen Quinlan), son Bobby (Dan Byrd), daughters Brenda (Emilie DeRavin) and Lynn (Vinessa Shaw), along with Lynn's husband Doug (Aaron Stanford) and daughter Katherine (Maisie Camilleri Preziosi) are purposefully set up by a gas station owner to be hunted and killed by a demented family of people mutated by atomic experiments.
But after a night of terror and death, the survivors strike back; Doug goes to find his kidnapped daughter and, with the help of dog Beast, who also feels vengeful for the murder of its companion Beauty by the mutants, and of mutiny mutant Ruby (Laura Ortiz), who sacrifices herself to the cause, basically slaughters the whole group and rescues the daughter, while Bobby and Brenda (who is still in shock from her brutal rape) use Ethel and Lynn's dead bodies to attract Lizard (Robert Joy) in a death trap.
At the end, they finally are safe, or are they? This movie is probably the best horror remake ever made! It takes you into a spiral of darkness from the very beginning and does not let go one second, using all the tools in its possession (acting, make-up, location, cinematography, score) to scare you out of your mind, especially the pulse sounds (like when Doug finds himself in the icebox with all the cut limbs and finds it out).
The only problem is that some original touches (Brenda saving Bobby, or the social commentary about Doug) are missing, but this movie really deserves a high grade! The Hills Have Eyes: 9/10.