Hills Have Eyes but No Brains.

Rating: 2/10 (21 May 2015)

The Hills Have Eyes (2006): Dir: Alexandre Aja / Cast: Ted Levine, Robert Joy, Vinessa Shaw, Kathleen Quinlan, Dan Byrd: Remake of the 1977 Wes Craven slasher about the ominous presence of evil. It is also a degrading puke fest that should be buried in dog crap and run over several times. It is truly depressing to witness a standard family get terrorized and graphically dismembered by cannibals just for the sake of entertainment. Back story regards government nuclear tests gone wrong that mutate desert dwelling people. They respond by killing everything that happens to enter the desert. Some of the family manage to retaliate including one guy who fights a gruelling battle to rescue his infant daughter. What is cliché here is that it just happens to be the guy who is most fearful of the bunch. That worked in Deliverance but here it just seems tacky. Director Alexandre Aja does his best but even production is nothing great. Actors like Ted Levine, Robert Joy, Vinessa Shaw, and even Oscar nominated Kathleen Quinlan are wasted in this awful material. Shaw is even given the uncomfortable position of having one of these monsters suck on her nipples like a deformed kid. If someone has the desire to spend valuable time viewing sadistic images of graphic violence then this pointless mess should suffice. If the hills truly did have eyes then they would be ashamed to see this garbage. Score: 2 / 10