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The Hills Have Eyes II (2007)

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Reviews Counted:61

Fresh:7

Rotten:54

Average Rating:3.3/10

Consensus: The Hills Have Eyes 2 is a completely unoriginal sequel offers plenty of gore and clichés, but few scares.

Rated: 18

Runtime: 89 mins

Genre: Horror/Suspense

Theatrical Release:30-03-2007

Synopsis: After a group of hapless National Guard troops fails a training exercise, their commanding officer (Flex Alexander, SNAKES ON A PLANE) orders them to deliver supplies to some scientists in Yuma... After a group of hapless National Guard troops fails a training exercise, their commanding officer (Flex Alexander, SNAKES ON A PLANE) orders them to deliver supplies to some scientists in Yuma Flats, New Mexico. The mutants from the first film (the unfortunate victims who live on nuclear testing ground) have returned to terrorize a group of Department of Defense researchers. The unlucky soldiers happen upon the remains of their camp (and its denizens), and the horrors begin. The inbred family of cannibals stalks the soldiers and picks them off, one by one, in gruesome fashion. Alejandre Aja (HIGH TENSION) directed the 2006 remake, but this sequel replaces Aja with Martin Weisz, whose first feature, ROHTENBERG, was banned in his native Germany. Written by genre master Wes Craven and his son Jonathan, THE HILLS HAVE EYES II is a sequel to the remake of Craven's original 1977 film. It's no coincidence that Craven changed this sequel's victims from a band of motorcyclists to a group of unlucky soldiers, giving the film political undertones. For a brief moment, this film addresses the idea that war may be the worst kind of horror, even when it's judged against mutant cannibals. [More]

Starring: Daniella Alonso, Michael McMillian, Michael Bailey Smith, Jeff Kober

Starring: Daniella Alonso, Michael McMillian, Michael Bailey Smith, Jeff Kober, Jay Acovone, Philip Pavel, Lee Thompson Young, Ben Crowley, Jessica Stroup, Reshad Strik, Eric Edelstein, David Reynolds, Derek Mears, Tyrell Kemlo, Javier Nieto, Gaspar Szabo, Jacob Vargas, Flex Alexander

Director: Martin Weisz

Director: Martin Weisz
Screenwriter: Jonathan Craven, Martin Weisz
Producer: Peter Locke, Wes Craven, Marianne Maddalena
Composer: Trevor Morris
Studio: Fox Atomic

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Cheesy and yucky, it's a guilty pleasure.

Full Review Source: BBC | comment Comment
03/31/07
Jamie Russell
Jamie Russell
BBC
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Pure genre-pic boredom.

Full Review Source: Guardian [UK] | comment Comment
03/31/07
Peter Bradshaw
Peter Bradshaw
Guardian [UK]
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Another depressing example of a cult 70s slasher being cynically retooled for MTV-reared thrill-seekers.

Full Review Source: thelondonpaper | comment Comment
03/30/07
Neil Smith
Neil Smith
thelondonpaper

An enjoyable sequel if you like this sort of thing.

Full Review Source: ViewLondon | comment Comment
03/29/07
Matthew Turner
Matthew Turner
ViewLondon

Weisz’ first feature was ‘Butterfly: A Grimm Love Story’, a banal study of a real-life cannibal killer. Like this sorry sequel, it amounted to far less than the sum of its body parts.

Full Review Source: Time Out | comment Comment
03/29/07
Nigel Floyd
Nigel Floyd
Time Out
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Fingers in brains, thumbs in eyes and sledgehammers in the balls are straight outta Tom & Jerry: this time the hills are alive with the sound of larfing.

Full Review Source: Total Film | comment 1 Comment
03/27/07
Jamie Russell
Jamie Russell
Total Film
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Pretty solid gory horror.

Full Review Source: Empire Magazine | comment Comment
03/27/07
Kim Newman
Kim Newman
Empire Magazine
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It's all just far too Wes Craven for its own good. He gave Aja free rein to innovate, but as he writes this sequel he rests on every single genre cliché because he doesn't understand that they're still clichés even if he did invent them.

Full Review Source: FilmFocus | comment Comment
03/25/07
Joe Utichi
Joe Utichi
FilmFocus
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It's extremely grisly, brutal and scary. And not bad at all if you like this kind of thing.

Full Review Source: Shadows on the Wall | comment Comment
03/24/07
Rich Cline
Rich Cline
Shadows on the Wall

...could have been more than a pale shadow of the original if the filmmakers had taken their time...

Full Review Source: Filmcritic.com | comment Comment
08/02/09
Blake French
Blake French
Filmcritic.com

Click to read the article

Full Review Source: Hollywood.com | comment Comment
11/20/08
Michael Szymanski
Michael Szymanski
Hollywood.com

There is not any plot worth discussing: people go into a desert, some die. The end.

Full Review Source: Antagony & Ecstasy | comment Comment
09/27/07
Tim Brayton
Tim Brayton
Antagony & Ecstasy

In case you miss what's happening, one soldier wails, 'Oh, man, we're gettin' picked off one by one, here.'

Full Review Source: New York Post | comment Comment
08/22/07
Kyle Smith
Kyle Smith
New York Post

It sucks balls.

Full Review Source: Film Freak Central | comment 2 Comments
08/15/07
Walter Chaw
Walter Chaw
Film Freak Central

...dull and interminable...

Full Review Source: Reel Film Reviews | comment Comment
08/09/07
David Nusair
David Nusair
Reel Film Reviews

Well, no, they don't. If they did and if they could see, they would have read the script, passed on it, and we all would have been better for it.

Full Review Source: Bangor Daily News (Maine) | comment Comment
07/26/07
Christopher Smith
Christopher Smith
Bangor Daily News (Maine)

Better made than most low budget and derivative movies of its genre, but it just doesn't have enough to stand out as anything more than an improvement upon those dregs.

Full Review Source: Apollo Guide | comment Comment
07/12/07
Brian Webster
Brian Webster
Apollo Guide

This horror fanatic doesn't have room for Craven in his genre anymore. Collect your cash and call it a day already, Wes...

Full Review Source: Film Threat | comment 1 Comment
07/10/07
Felix Vasquez Jr.
Felix Vasquez Jr.
Film Threat

a film as bloodily pointless as the current conflict in Iraq that it so unsubtly allegorises.

Full Review Source: Eye for Film | comment Comment
07/09/07
Anton Bitel
Anton Bitel
Eye for Film

Maybe it's just time to put an end to this mutant circle of life, or at least send it straight to DVD from now on.

Full Review Source: IGN Movies | comment Comment
06/25/07
Scott Collura
Scott Collura
IGN Movies
 
 
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