The Hills Have Eyes

Rating: 6/10 (7 November 2008)

Based on his own 1977 film, Wes Craven (A Nightmare on Elm Street, Scream) produces this remake film, I admit seeing the original first might have been better, but I don't think it matters. Basically the Suburban Carter family are travelling in their trailer, and a guy at a gas station (deliberately I guess) misleads them to pretty much the middle-of-nowhere desert, where the end up getting the car wrecked. Oh, it should be mentioned that the USA did atmospheric nuclear tests between 1945-1962, and the cause was turning many innocent people into deformed and cannibalistic mutant type creatures. One by one obviously, family members are being taken away, eaten or hacked up by these psychotics, and the remaining are fighting for survival. Starring Aaron Stanford as Doug Bukowski, Kathleen Quinlan as Ethel Carter, Vinessa Shaw as Lynn Carter, Lost's Emilie De Ravin as Brenda Carter, Dan Byrd as Bobby Carter, Robert Joy as Lizard, Ted Levine as Big Bob Carter, Desmond Askew as Big Brain, Billy Drago as Papa Jupiter, Ezra Buzzington as Goggle, Michael Bailey Smith as Pluto and Laura Ortiz as Ruby. The gore is always good to see, the make-up for the mutant people is pretty convincing too, it is a worth while film. Good!