So about a while back, like two years ago, I reviewed The Hills Have Eyes 2009 remake. I thought it was alright. Disgusting as hell and stupid at times, but an enjoyable movie. And that’s when I remembered it’s a remake. I knew there was a film remade, but what I didn’t know is that the original film was created por Wes Craven, who made Nightmare on Elm Street. Despite that, this movie was made a few years before Nightmare on Elm Street. Is it as good as Wes Craven’s other classics o is it best forgotten? Let’s found out.



The film follows a small American suburban town called the Carter family travelling to Los Angeles through the desert, being warned to stick to the roads. Long story short, they don’t, and they end up crashing and stuck out in the desert looking for help. Little do they know that they are being stalked and hunted por a family of cannibals that plan on eating them alive, killing them all one por one…. Verrrrrry slooooooooowly.
I’m all for slow build up in films, but even por the forty minuto mark of this movie, only two people have died, one of them being the family dog. It isn’t even until fifty minutos in that the family is aware of the cannibals existence, and then, that is when the movie… I wanna say picks up. It’s far más interesting than the slow parts of the beginning of the film, where all there is is the family talking while the father goes off to check on what the crazy gas station attendant. There are scenes where the actuación is so campy, that it borders on enjoyable. Don’t ask me how I know, but I’m pretty sure no one screams like they do in The Hills Have Eyes when they are set on fire. Sure, the 2006 remake version was no different with it’s acting, and the fuego effect was pretty laughable, but it’s the camp of this version that makes me laugh.
I also read somewhere that this movie is a commentary on morality and American social classes. I won’t touch the segundo one, but the first one, I will. Also, yes, I am going to talk about this film from a film student perspective. Shut up. I fail to see how this film has any way of being moral, especially when the creators claim that all sides are guilty of something. Yeah, I see that. The cannibals are guilty of being vicious killers and the Carters are guilty of…… being rich and white, of course. A true sin.
Now, that tirade gone, the cannibals in this movie are…. Not terrible. Not great, really. Not very memorable. The make-up on the father is pretty good, and the one cannibal, Pluto, was decent enough to be on the cover of the film…. Yeah, I don’t got a lot to say about this film, actually.
I honestly thought I would have más to say about this film, being that I talked about the remake before with some interesting points, but this film is just really not my kind of thing. I Thought there would be something that interests me, but I can’t really find any. I can’t believe I’m saying this, but I found más intrigue in the remake than this one. The Hills Have Eyes has it’s moments, but this is not one of those moments.