Cheesy and yucky, it's a guilty pleasure.
The Hills Have Eyes II (2007)
Rated: 18
Runtime: 89 mins
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 Flats, New Mexico. The mutants from the first film (the unfortunate victims who live on nuclear... 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]
Genre: Horror/Suspense
Starring: Daniella Alonso, Michael McMillian, Michael Bailey Smith, Jeff Kober, Jay Acovone
Screenwriter: Jonathan Craven, Martin Weisz
Producer: Peter Locke, Wes Craven, Marianne Maddalena
Composer: Trevor Morris
DVD Info
Release:
Nov 10, 2008
Blu-ray Disc Features:
- Keep Case
- Widescreen - 2.35
Audio:
- 5.1 DTS HD Master Audio - English
- Dolby Digital 5.1 - French, Spanish
- Subtitles - English, French, Spanish - Optional
Additional Release Material:
- Alternate Scenes - 1. Deleted Scenes (4)
- 2. Alternate Ending
- Behind the Scenes - "Exploring the Hills: The Making of THE HILLS HAVE EYES 2"
- Featurettes - 1. "Mutant Attacks"
- 2. "Birth of a Graphic Novel"
- 3. "Fox Movie Channel Presents: Life After Film School with Wes Craven"
- Outtakes - Gag Reel
- Trailers - 1. High Definition Theatrical Trailers
- 2. THE HILLS HAVE EYES (2006)
Reviews
Another depressing example of a cult 70s slasher being cynically retooled for MTV-reared thrill-seekers.
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.
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.
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.
It's extremely grisly, brutal and scary. And not bad at all if you like this kind of thing.
There is not any plot worth discussing: people go into a desert, some die. The end.
In case you miss what's happening, one soldier wails, 'Oh, man, we're gettin' picked off one by one, here.'
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.
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.
This horror fanatic doesn't have room for Craven in his genre anymore. Collect your cash and call it a day already, Wes...
a film as bloodily pointless as the current conflict in Iraq that it so unsubtly allegorises.
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.
Another shining example of the sorry state of horror filmmaking these days
Written, disappointingly, by Wes Craven and his son Jonathan, this limp sequel to last year's remake of Wes' 1977 original feels like the work of a guy who's spent a few too many days lost in the desert.
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