Same Old, Same Old

Rating: 4/10 (11 June 2006)

You've seen it before, especially if you're a horror fan: the innocent victims preyed upon by the scary monsters. Innocent victims stupidly put themselves into position to be preyed up and continue to play up their victim status by doing exactly the wrong thing in every instance.
My own favorite in this genre is Dusk 'Til Dawn, where the victims are anything but innocent not only determined to wreak a terrible vengeance on the monsters, but perfectly capable of doing so.
Near the halfway mark of Hills Have Eyes I was rooting for the mutants. The victims, I felt, deserved to die for being so incredibly dumb. Natural selection at work in the desert! The mutants do, in every respect, what you would expect mutants to do. The victims, however, perpetrate every single horror movie cliché: split up, run into traps, deny that there is anything wrong going on, waste ammunition, stand around acting useless, etc.
It's too bad the ending didn't include one of the mutants eating the director and screenwriter.