Another remake; another yawn; another out-of-work screenwriter in Hollywood...

Rating: 3/10 (12 March 2006)

I was really psyched about a remake of the original Hills. However, the 5% of changes made were unoriginal and pretentious. Much of the script is copied and pasted, line for line (which is somewhat obnoxious because there were setups in the dialogue that don't pay off here... like several mentions of rattlesnakes). The car/trailer showdown is not as creative as the original (lacking the body bait and the dragging sequence). The "test village" sequences are disjointed and fall flat (although the fight in the house is great).
Despite all of its low budget cheesiness and flaws, the original is what it is: an original (and labor of love). This remake is just another yawn from the rehash factory.