Good Remake

Rating: 6/10 (1 April 2006)

The original "Hills Have Eyes" (1977) is often fondly remembered as a gruesome and disturbing film, when it actually isn't really. It was actually passed in Britain with comparatively few cuts for the time, and for a lot of British viewers was, for a long time, the only really 'horrific' horror movie available, however Alexandre Aja's remake makes up for that by including all the buckets of blood that audiences might have missed form the original.
Sticking closely to the original storyline of an all-American family stranded in the desert and being attacked by depraved cannibal mutants, created from nuclear bomb testing decades earlier, the film nevertheless is far more intense than the original. Although it does suffer from the glossy look common to most modern horror films, instead of the bleak, rough low-budget appearance of the original.
Another change is the added emphasis on the background of the attackers, which does add something of another dimension to the film, making them slightly more sympathetic.
Worth watching for horror fans, and a must-see for fans of the original. This is a decent horror film, but ultimately nothing special.
Contians swearing and graphic violence.