Hills Have Eyes

Pros: Excellent acting, storyline, special effects and makeup
Cons: Could use a few different methods to do away with the enemy

I saw no previews for Fox Searchlight's re-make of Wes Craven's 1977 low budget cult film "The Hills Have Eyes." This is usually a bad sign but not as bad as a film that is not shown to critics. It was a critic's review on NPR today that made me want ...

Pros: Loyal to the original.
Cons: Too loyal to the original.

The Hills Have Eyes is a movie about a vacationing family taken a detour through the dessert, and a band of mutant cannibals out for blood. The Cast Ted Levine- Big Bob Kathleen Quinlan-Ethel Dan Byrd- Bobby Emilie de Ravin- ...

Pros: Quality Effects and Performances, Functions Well as Both a Remake and a Standalone Horror Film
Cons: Weak Political Commentary

Horror remakes in recent years have been mostly dreadful. The particularly big offenders include The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, and The Fog. If I were to write a book on how to ruin a good horror film, I'd cite them as references. The horror fan inside of ...

Pros: Aja does Craven right many times, with better acting and FX.
Cons: The social commentary is limp and the villains surprisingly forgettable.

Virtually every horror movie in the past few years that managed to a become #1 box-office hit have something in common: some other movie's name. Remakes are basically here to stay, preferably with ties to Japanese spook flicks and 1970s splatter flicks. ...

Pros: Aja and Craven combine to deliver a powerful statement on political excesses of the 50's...
Cons: May be too intense for some audiences...

Leave it to a foreign director as an outsider looking in to grab hold of one of our nation's great unresolved issues and turn it inside out during a new era of American self-examination. Alexandre Aja teams up with Wes Craven (running neck and neck with ...

Pros: An intense riveting climax.
Cons: Predictable, and often unconvincing, with a disjointed pace.

French director Alexandre Aja's remake of Wes Craven's The Hills Have Eyes is a sometimes unnecessarily explicit violent film with some intensely riveting sequences, but often interrupted by disjointed pacing and exasperating cliches. The film ...

Pros: Actors & Actresses fit well together. Beat the 1977 movie by far.
Cons: The film is great... No cons about it.

Every once in a while, when the stars are aligned and the universe is at one with itself, a remake will out-best the original. Once again, this happens rarely; and, normally, you can bet against such a miracle from occurring. Certain examples I can cite ...

Pros: An action pakced, horrifying, gore fest.
Cons: Slow beginning and could've been scarier. Not for the easily disturbed.

The original Wes Craven version of "The Hills Have Eyes" has never been a favourite of mine, but I thought it was pretty good. However, last years H igh Tension was one of my favourite movies of the year, so when I ...

Pros: An intense film that is loyal to the original.
Cons: None.

Some people like to see public displays of affection, peace, and harmony. I like seeing torture, murder, and mutilation. This means a few things. First of all, it usually means that I'm the person that you don't want you're kid growing up to be like. ...

Pros: good make up effects, some good gory scenes
Cons: acting, story, lack of a well done rollercoaster scene structure, soundtrack, basically everything else...

As a general rule, I like horror movies. I'm not hard to please. Every so often, on the third full moon of the fifth year of every nocturnal cycle of the earth.. or some galactic garbage like that.. a horror movie is made that should be rejected before ...

Pros: The effects are good.
Cons: Poor acting and awful storyline. See the original!

To go into this remake with an open mind, although all of the recent remakes like "The Fog" and "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre" have been let downs to me. I thought maybe because Craven, himself, was involved with this film it would exceed my expectations ...

Pros: - Gore
- Few b-rated qualities
- great acting, script and filming
- suspenseful plot
Cons: - graphic rape scene
- a lot of indecent language
- too much gore for some

When I first saw the movie "The Hills Have Eyes" advertising to be released in theatres, I had no intention of watching it for several reasons. The main reason was that at first glance it appeared as if it would have all the main elements of a cheesy ...

Pros: Good for gore and brutal violence.
Cons: Doesn't make much sense. Pretty ridiculous.

The one good actor in this movie, who also plays in the TV show, Monk, is not the main character. Don't expect him to be his usual tough guy self and beat up a bunch of mutants. The movie starts out with some wierd music and a couple of government ...

Pros: Nothing.
Cons: Sucky script.

The basic plot - a family going on a camping trip for the parents 25th wedding anniversary breaks down in the middle of the desert. The desert was a mining town years ago when the government decided to do nuclear testing but the mining families did not ...

Pros: Not what you would like to have happen on your vacation!!
Cons: Deformed cannibals!

I don't know about you, but I find the idea of vacationing in an RV with my in-laws very disturbing in itself. I'm not sure I could do it for any significant amount of time with my immediate family and still call it a vacation. Still, the story ...