Monday, September 17, 2007

The Hills Have Eyes


I recently found a review on the movie The Hills Have Eyes. Not the original, but the 2006 remake. The movie is about a family traveling in a trailer to California through the New Mexico Desert, who is misled to a shortcut going to the middle of nowhere by the an old creepy guy at a broken down gas station. They end up wrecking their car into a huge rock. Along the night and on the next day, they are attacked by a group of deformed cannibals, based off and coming from the nuclear tests conducted by USA from 1945 to 1962 in that spot. Trapped in this torture pit, they have to fight to survive. In the review Keith Breese says: "Alexandre Aja (Haute Tension) retools Craven’s classic and turns it into a bold, spaghetti western-inspired tale of revenge, family, and American politics." In other words Aja blows cravens out of the water turning it into a great horror movie. Breese also contrasts the original The Hills Have Eyes to the 2006 remake. He also takes the time to talk about the plot, the differences between the two films, along with many other key points that make a review worthy of being read. He states: "...The Hills Have Eyes is a carefully plotted, brilliantly coiled example of suspenseful horror filmmaking." I agree with him on that comment, and recommend seeing it to everyone up for a horror.

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