Do the producers feel as bad for making it as I feel for watching it?

Rating: 1/10 (1 July 2006)

After watching "The Hills Have Eyes" remake, I asked myself "What is a horror film?" I guess the category is so broad that it is near impossible to define. All I could come up with is "Does it scare you?" If it does, then it is a good horror film. Sorry folks, this film did not meet that criteria for me. I always immediately discount the little cheap thrills that bad directors will bring about by having a loud noise combined with either a quick view of the killer/monster/alien or a cat/dog/bird jumping across the screen. After all, I will jump if you sneak up behind me and yell "Boo!, but I hardly think I will be psychologically scarred by that act. Well, there's plenty of that in this film. Removing such contrivances from my assessment of the film, the only thing left is a sickening, disappointed feeling that I feel towards myself for actually staying to watch this whole movie.
As others have said, this movie is chock full of dumb, pseudo horror movie behavior. Here are some highlights: -Two cases of guys with little ammunition firing blindly into general direction of bad guys. (One a former cop!) -Several instances of characters slightly wounding bad guys and rather than finishing them off, they are apparently waiting for the wounds to fester and the bad guys to die of an infection. -The total denial syndrome. In this case, a truck and a trailer run over some spikes. No one seems to think it odd that they have blown out eight tires simultaneously. Just some dumb luck I guess. Darn!
Putting all that aside, the main reason I can't recommend this film is just that it doesn't care about any of the characters in it. If you want me to care that these characters are getting killed, you have to at least make me understand them. There is no character development on either the side of the "good guys" or the "bad guys" in this film. I have seen more character development in shampoo commercials. So, if you don't care what happens to the main characters or why the bad guys are killing them, all you are left with is some weird voyeuristic need to see gore and violence perpetrated on some nice people on vacation. If this makes you sick, good. (This indicates you are actually a human being. Go watch something uplifting and try to forget about this pile of manure.) If you still like this movie, go seek some professional help and stay away from small children and house pets.