The Hills Have Eyes Part II

Plot synopsis:
The film begins with Bobby Carter and his psychiatrist discussing the events of the first film, which took place eight years ago. Bobby is still traumatized by the events, but he and Rachel (formerly known as Ruby) who now owns a biker team and have also invented a super fuel that can power bikes. The team is due to race in the same desert where the original massacre took place and Bobby's psychiatrist tries to convince him to go, but he declines and Rachel takes his place. The team, consisting of the blind Cass, her boyfriend Roy, Harry, Hulk, Foster, Jane and Sue, meets up at a bus and sets off. Along the way, they pick up Beast from a dog pound, the dog was previously owned by the Carters, who now belongs to Rachel.While going through the desert, they get lost and Harry suggests a shortcut through the bombing range. As they drive, the bus begins leaking fuel and they stop at an old mining ranch. As they explore the mine, Pluto, who has apparently survived the earlier attack from Beast, attacks Rachel. She fights him off and he retreats. No one believes her at first, until Pluto returns and steals one of their bikes. Roy and Harry chases him down, but Harry falls behind, gets caught in a trap and is flattened by a massive rock. Roy catches Pluto but is ambushed by a 7-foot cannibal called the Reaper who knocks him unconscious. The Reaper is later revealed to be Papa Jupiter's older brother.Meanwhile, the rest of the group stays at the mine until nightfall. They begin to worry about Roy and Harry. Rachel and Hulk depart to look for them while the others stay behind. The Reaper then begins to stalk the remaining teens. As Hulk and Rachel tries to escape on the motorcycle, he shoots Hulk through the chest with a spear bolt as he dies, leaving Rachel to run away in fear.The Reaper then returns to the mine, where he pulls Foster under the bus and kills him with a hatchet. Jane finds Foster's body but the Reaper catches her and crushes her in a bearhug. Sue returns to the camp only to be thrown through a window by the Reaper and slits her throat with a machete.Rachel runs into Pluto where the two wrestles for a moment. Pluto pins her to the ground but Beast surprises him and chases him away. She stops running to get a look around the area until she hears Reaper's voice whispers out to her, "Ruby, I want you." and a snap is heard from somewhere in the dark. Rachel turns around to see what's coming at her. Helpless, she sees it's Hulk's corpse tied up as it pushes against her. Rachel falls to the ground head hit on a rock caused minor bleeding as she moans into unconsciousness as Reaper laughs at her from the bushes. Rachel is knocked out for the night and leaving only Cass.Meanwhile, Roy wakes up and runs into Pluto at the top of a cliff. Pluto gets ready to attack Roy, but Beast returns and knocks him off the cliff to his death.Cass runs from the Reaper and ends up in his mine shaft where he dumped the bodies, and comes across the corpses of all her friends. She threw a jar of acid at his face and escapes up a rope with help from Roy. The Reaper follows them but they trap him in the bus where all the bike fuel is. They set it on fire and watched as it blows up. The Reaper escapes from the wreckage covered in flames and tries one more time to kill them, but he stumbles into an open mine shaft, leading to his death.The film ends with Roy, Cass and the dog Beast walking away from the mine at sunrise, into the vast desert as they follow the road home.

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Review:
THE HILLS HAVE EYES PART II (1985)directed by: Wes Cravenstarring: Tamara Stafford, Kevin Blair, Janus Blythe, and Michael Berrymanplot: Bobby (Robert Houston) and Ruby (Janus Blythe), now civilized and under the alias Rachel, run a motorcycle racing team and are preparing for a race in the desert.
They decide to stay for the night, which is a bad idea, because Ruby's brother Pluto (Michael Berryman) and uncle Reaper (John Bloom) roam the area, picking off the friends one by one.
Soon, only a few survivors are left - including blind Cass (Tamara Stafford) and Ruby, and they must try to stay alive.my thoughts: I've heard so many bad reviews about this film.
I've read that Wes Craven made this belated sequel to his classic The Hills Have Eyes because he was desperate for work, and that things didn't go quite as planned due to the producers withholding funds; I'm not surprised that he's making excuses, because compared to the original, this is laughable stuff—a formulaic slasher that is so poorly conceived that, at times, it almost feels like a comedy.On the flip side, I never found it boring (despite numerous flashbacks to the first film, including one from a dog!): the action moves along at a reasonable lick with some fun kills, a few reasonable scares, a bit of gore (including a juicy throat slash), and some gratuitous female nudity (somehow, despite the film being set in a desert, Wes still manages to shoehorn in a shower scene).Part II ends in a suitably daft manner with the survivors successfully defeating the final member of the film's cannibal clan by devising a trap and finding the necessary equipment in mere seconds, and then carrying out their plan without a hitch, despite the whole idea being silly in the extreme.I give the film a rating of 5/10: there are far worse slashers out there..
I thought The Hills Have Eyes Part II was a good sequel by Wes Craven even though he said he only made it because he was low on cash and would of directed "Godzilla in Paris" but he decided to make a sequel to one of his best films.I didn't think the flashbacks took up the whole film just the beginning and the dog flashback didn't bother me I thought it was quite funny.The music was similar to Friday the 13th since it was the same man and I liked that since I'm a fan of Friday the 13th.
In fact, I would rate this one even below the director's other 80s stinkers "Shocker" and "The People Under the Stairs."  The best scenes in this are the long flashbacks from the first movie (and there are several of them -- the damn dog even has one!) Unfortunately, in between the flashbacks, we also get the `new' story about a bunch of dirt bikers stranded in the desert when their bus runs out of gas.
Once again, they are attacked and killed off by the two remaining members of the savage, cannibalistic clan from the first film (John Bloom as Reaper and Michael Berryman returning as the scary-looking but wimpy Pluto, who gets his ass kicked by dogs and chics throughout the movie).
You'd never think that Wes Craven himself, whose 1977 original was a genuine horror masterpiece, could be responsible for such an utterly lifeless piece of celluloid, but as he's stated many times before, this came at a time when he'd do ANYTHING to scratch out a living in the film biz (though I'd personally have chosen to find work at a sweat shop than have my name attached to something like this).
That's right, in the annals of horror movie stupidity, there has never been a moment to top the lunacy of the Carter family dog having a flashback to some of the events he witnessed in the original film!
Hell, there are so many damn flashback sequences in this film that it actually makes for a reason to watch it: if one has trouble finding a copy of the original "Hills Have Eyes", they can just rent the sequel since it shows just about every scene from the original anyway.
The only returning member of the mutant family this time around is Pluto, who is now living in the desert with "The Reaper", who is supposed to be the brother of Papa Jupiter, the original leader of the clan.
It even has the same composer as the Jason films (Harry Manfredini) so much of the music in 'Hills 2' could make you think you're watching a 'Friday the 13th' sequel.
The characters are so obnoxious you don't give a hoot what happens to them, the 'Papa Jupe's brother' business is glaringly contrived and unlikely and to cut a long story short I have trouble believing that this mess was by the same director who brought us the best of the 'Nightmare on Elm Street' films and 'Shocker'..
A group of annoying bikers get stuck in the dessert and fall victim to the remaining members of the savage killers.As good as Wes Craven's original film The Hill Have Eyes (1977) was, this sloppy sequel is as bad!
You know a sequel is bad when the only good scenes in it are the flash-backs to the original film!
The only bright spot is a decent music score from Harry Manfredini.Robert Houston, Michael Berryman, and Janus Blythe return as their original characters, but it's all in vain.Hands-down Craven's worst film.BOMB out of ****.
80s horror sequels comparable to this film include: The Return of the Living Dead Part II, A Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Freddy's Revenge, Friday the 13th Part II, and The Howling II.
I gave this film 6 stars because I am a true fan of Wes Craven and his horror masterpieces even if this one is a pull it out of his behind piece of work, I also enjoyed the remake tremendously and look forward to the forthcoming sequel..
My boyfriend and I didn't even hesitate to pick it up, we thought it was going to be another awesome fright fest of the blood thirsty cannibals with probably better effects since Wes had pretty much made good money at that point and also established himself as a great film maker at that point.
The Hills Have Eyes Part II was just a poorly made film and Wes should be ashamed of himself for ever thinking that this would have been a good movie.
Not to mention the characters from the first film have flashbacks from the first Hills have Eyes movie, but also the dog has a flashback as well!
I can't believe Wes did this to his own classic tale, just please do yourself a favor, stay as far away from this film as you can, it's no wonder I didn't hear of it, probably people don't wanna think that it ever happened.1/10.
It's mind-numbingly boring and redundant to watch, not to mention filled with colossally stupid elements, like Beast the dog's flashbacks from the first movie.
Wes Craven-many horror fans consider him as a master of horror,but after watching his truly god-awful movies like "Deadly Friend","Invitation to Hell" and this one I came to conclusion that he is very overrated.Only three of his movies are actually worth watching:"Last House on the Left" which is brilliant,"The Hills Have Eyes" and "Deadly Blessing" which are pretty good.His other movies,including overrated "Scream" and "A Nightmare on Elm Street" are a typical Hollywood garbage."The Hills Have Eyes Part 2" is truly one of the worst horror movies I have ever seen.The plot concerns a bunch of annoying youngsters,who are attacked by cannibals:Pluto(Michael Berryman) and his uncle Reaper(John Bloom).Absolutely no suspense,even no gore to satisfy gore-freaks(although there's a nice throat slashing).The acting is diabolically obscure and the final twist is obnoxious and stupid.The scene when the pet dog has a flashback to the previous movie is extremely dumb,but also hilarious at the same time.Avoid this junk like the plague.Not recommended..
Well, I'm not surprised.Craven poured his heart, soul and love into the original movie The Hills Have Eyes –hate it or love it, it is evident Craven put effort into it; did he with this sequel?
This film has no character development, bad acting and a story copied and pasted from the first and slasher formulated – this is Friday the 13th mixed with The Hills Have Eyes.
I just watched The Hills Have Eyes2 1985 and the soundtrack sounds like Friday the 13!Someone tell me if they think so too.I was just sitting around and thought I'd watch part 2 of this little miniseries and I'm a big trivia buff.I told my husband and son this should be good like the first one right?Wrong think again.This was so corny and i kept getting the feeling the music in it sounded so familiar that i gave some thought to it.i don't wanna give any major parts away but like save your time effort and money because it is definitely not worth it.I love most 80's movies and music mainly because I was a teenager to all that corny,quircky but amazing stuff.
The Hills Have Eyes Part II (1984)* (out of 4)Ill-advised sequel to Wes Craven's masterpiece has a dirt bike squad going out into the desert and of course they run into the cannibal family (led by Michael Berryman).
Along with the group is a survival (Janus Blythe) from the first film and now she is faced with re- living her horrors.THE HILLS HAVE EYES PART II was made because Wes Craven needed the money but the project was pretty much put on the shelf only to be dusted off after the success of A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET.
The lack of any real style for the majority of the picture is just something you wouldn't expect from a Wes Craven movie.The screenplay itself is somewhat of a mess as it has a lot more to do with Friday THE 13TH than the original film.
That just adds to the overall cheapness as do the death scenes that are mostly forgettable, although I'm sure the lack of money probably played into this.The performances are pretty much what you'd expect from a film like this but not even Berryman or Blythe could do much with their roles.
The Hills have Eyes part 2 is an unbelievably dull and uninspired film that, like most sequels, desperately tries to milk the original for a few extra dollars.
Looking at it now, there was no need for this stupid and pointless sequel.The acting is OK but the characters are dumb, Pluto is not scary, the other cannibal is not convincing, the story is just muddled and goes down hill as it continuous on, the music gets lame, the deaths are done in the worse way possible and why have we got flashbacks from the first film???
I recently acquired this via the full-frame Image DVD in anticipation of the HTF Halloween challenge; I knew the film was nowhere near as well regarded as the 1977 original  but I wasn't aware that Craven only made it because he was hard-up for cash, that he later disowned the result and that the picture was even shelved for two years (by which time he had re-acquired his stature with A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET [1984] which itself developed into a franchise and, ironically, the director would also return to much later after another lean period in his career)!Anyway, this sequel is really quite lame as these things go (especially given that the original director is involved): apparently, there was so little plot to work with that the makers felt the need to pad out the running-time with gratuitous recollections of some of the highlights from the first entry  including an outrageous (hence, justly infamous) dream sequence by Beast, the heroic Alsatian!
In fact, just about the only characters to engage our interest are a blind girl and Janus Blythe's Ruby herself  who has been domesticated in the interim (at the end of the original, she had saved a baby from a fate worse than death and, as seen in an alternate ending on Anchor Bay's SE of the first film, had even joined the surviving members of the cannibals' victims).
Though Robert Houston (Bobby) is also on hand, his character is conveniently put out of the way at the very beginning: he freaks out when a motor race is set to take place in the desert near where his family was attacked all those years ago and opts to stay behind  Ruby (who's even changed her name) and Beast, however, go along and, though the former's confession about her past isn't taken very seriously by her companions, both of course prove instrumental in the new victims' safe-keeping.Incidentally, Craven knew when he had a good thing going and, so, reproduced here two death methods from the original  Berryman himself, in fact, expires yet again at the hands of Beast (though he's met with the fate that had previously befallen his brother Mercury), while The Reaper's come-uppance is an even more elaborate and protracted stunt than Jupiter's demise in the 1977 film and which would have been more appropriate for a Road Runner cartoon!
It's simply a retread of the original with the family being replaced by retarded teens and to up the suspense, one of them just happens to be blind.Wes Craven wrote and directed this lumbering mess and you could easily tell the creative juices were at an all time low.
Everything else is so-so or below par like the music score, uneven pacing, cut-away deaths with big casualty list, goofy stunt work (where the cannibals seem to lay the smack down) and a dead-weight story with full of "come again moments?" and a very merry conclusion.A terribly soulless low-grade sequel by Craven that I found oddly amusing..
Only one year after hitting the big time with "A Nightmare on Elm Street", writer-director Wes Craven decided to make a sequel to one of his early efforts, the classic "The Hills Have Eyes".
"The Hills Have Eyes Part II" is nowhere near as bad as it's reputation seems to suggest.**SPOILERS**Trying to get over his fear of the desert, Bobby, (Robert Houston) agrees to go on a dirt-bike expedition with friends Roy, (Kevin Spirtas) Cass, (Tamara Stafford) Harry, (Peter Frechette) Rachel, (Janus Blythe) Hulk, (John Laughlin) Foster, (Willard E.
THERE MAY BE SPOILERS BUT YOU SHOULDN'T EVEN BE CONSIDERING WATCHING THIS MOVIE.On the face of it this was a fairly tempting no brainer movie  the premise of the overrated (but not bad) original pasted onto the eighties slasher movie template  a touch of continuation with the Bobby, one of the survivors and Ruby, the feral girl (and the family dog, who gets his own flashback  draw your own conclusions!) from the original and the promise of much inspired teenager-slashing in the desert.They are hooked up with some motocross riders and their girlfriends (one of the girls is blind and has Daredevil like enhanced senses  I am not making this up) and heading to a meet in some unspecified place to test out Bobby's newly developed super-fuel (they're carrying gallons of the stuff  deus ex machina alert!)The kids decide to leave the highway and head across country thanks to one of the stupidest plot contrivances in cinematic history  they forget that the clocks went forward the night before  all of them!!
More fool, me.From there on its the usual predictable nonsense and features Michael Berryman (with a REAL tenuous explanation of his survival from part one) and a super lame villain (its Jupiter's brother!!)  who looks like a retired wrestler with a big fat gut (y'know  he's fat  just run away!!)None of this should be completely damning  there are a million pointless, predictable slasher flicks but some of them actually have a touch of originality  even if its only in the way the cast are killed off.Boy does this movie fail  did Craven just take the budget and spend it on drugs?
Still traumatized by the events of the first movie, Bobby finds himself unable to accompany his buddies across the desert to a motocross competition to test out their new "Super Formula Racing Fuel." Going in his place is his friend Rachel (Janus Blythe), who, as "Ruby," was a member of the desert-dwelling family of the first film but is now a reformed ex-cannibal after having helped the Carter family put an end to her brood's murderous ways.
Running short on time, the crew decide to venture off the main road and take a shortcut, their bus breaks down near an abandoned mine and then the rest plays out like business as usual as Pluto (Michael Berryman) and Papa Jupiter's hereunto unmentioned big brother "The Reaper" (John Bloom) start picking them off one by one.Gone is the original film's intelligent subtext centered around two vastly different families clashing over harsh terrain and an ordinary, mild-mannered middle-class family forced to turn as vicious as their attackers in order to protect themselves.
Written & directed by Wes Craven this sequel to his original The Hills Have Eyes (1977) is probably not as good & has a bad reputation but despite this I actually found it an alright way to pass 85 minutes.
"The Hills Have Eyes Part II" is probably the worst sequel to any Horror movie.
The Hills Have Eyes was Wes Craven's second film & his first real classic – a brutal survivalist tale where two families took on each other for survival in a brutal battle.
In the same year as his greatest work, the original A Nightmare on Elm Street, Craven decided to mount a sequel to Hills.
'The Hills Have Eyes part II' isn't the lowers of the low you can go with a sequel of a good film, but it probably is pretty close.