An Entertaining Remake For Sure.

Rating: 7/10 (12 August 2008)

We all know how bad remakes can be, especially in the horror genre, but that's certainly not the case here. In fact, I like the 2006 version BETTER. This was terrific I thought, coming from French director Alexandra Aja who's first film "High Tension" was a highly disturbing masterpiece. This movie isn't really scary (except one specific jump-out moment that I distinctly recall). It's mostly about how sick these mutants are. The key to the movie was the drama and the edge-of-the-seat suspense, which grabbed you by the throat the whole way through. This movie also has one of my favorite fight scenes of any recent horror film. I would definitely recommend this movie to fans of the genre, as long as you have a strong stomach. This movie makes the desert hills much more creepy and unsettling. And again, it's not very scary as you're watching it, but if you ever end up stranded on a deserted back road out in the desert, you'll be ten times more scared than you would've been after seeing The Hills Have Eyes.