The Hills Have Eyes

Rating: 8/10 (13 March 2006)

A mix between "Wrong Turn" and "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre," "The Hills Have Eyes" is a nail-biting, grab the person next to you thriller. Of course there is the gore, but it all plays in nicely to give you a worth while moving going experience. One of the better, if not the best, horror movie I have seen in a long while. This movie is based on the notion that during nuclear testing in the North American desert, miners in towns in the area refused to leave their homes and retreated to the mines where they worked. Over time, the nuclear fallout caused severe physical and mental defects in the people exposed to the radiation as well as the off-spring of those inhabitants. These sites were so far of the map that they were forgotten. Set up as a ruthless cat and mouse game, any travelers who accidentally made it to this nuclear wasteland were condemned in a place where "the lucky ones die first!"