One of the best movies I've seen

Rating: 10/10 (17 April 2006)

*Minor Spoilers* (for the first five minutes of the film)
Like so many others I went to see The Hills Have Eyes remake with lowered expectations. I thought it would be a terrible remake in the vein of The Fog, Night of the Living Dead, or Texas Chainsaw Massacre. However after the movie began and the people in the hills viciously murdered four (maybe five) people I was instantly hooked. This movie is by far one of the best horror movies ever made. The movie starts out relatively peaceful with a little text scroll explaining how the good old' US used to test nuclear weapons in the New Mexican desert, and it shows some government officials seeing if the area is still irradiated when suddenly someone gets a pickax through their head. Then it shows some actual nuclear test footage playing over a nice charming song (all the while showing people who were mutated due to radiation), then it proceeds to play out like the original '70s Hills Have Eyes, with a family making their way through the New Mexican desert on their way to California. The story as a whole doesn't differ all that much from Wes Craven's Hills. That's not to say it doesn't, but the main story actually follows the originals quite a bit. One key difference to note is the number of the hill people, there's more of them in this gory remake than in the original. Also the violence, there is a hell of a lot more of it in this version of the movie. Fans of the original Hills Have Eyes will definitely like this movie, if for nothing else, the fact that it actually adheres to the storyline of the original (Character names too, it even has the dogs!), and horror fans will love the movie as well. This movie is one of those that some people will look down on (mainly due to the violence), but others will love. Overall this was a great movie, it is definitely worth shelling out eight bucks to see. This movie is most definitely one of the best movies of this year, and is certainly the best remake ever made.