gory and marvelous

Rating: 10/10 (15 March 2006)

This was one horror movie that did not leave me feeling empty inside upon its conclusion. It was a relief to watch a slasher flick that did not try to add dimension to the plot and the characters with hard-to-buy romantic entanglements or irrelevant heart-to-hearts between the last two survivors. In The Hills Have Eyes no one falls in love because all the characters come from one family. No one has any deep secrets to divulge because they are, once again, part of the same family. With that taken care of, The Hills Have Eyes can focus on what's really important: violent, bloody, hideous death. And what glorious death it is! The Carter's are too terrified to talk about anything but their impending doom, and the mutants are often too disfigured to speak easily, so there is very little dialog that does not serve only to propel the movie forwards to the next gruesome confrontation. I felt very good after watching this movie.