The Hills Have Eyes

2006 107 min ★ 6.5 Horror, Thriller

Based on Wes Craven's 1977 suspenseful cult classic, The Hills Have Eyes is the story of a family road trip that goes terrifyingly awry when the travelers become stranded in a government atomic zone. Miles from nowhere, the Carter family soon realizes the seemingly uninhabited wasteland is actually the breeding ground of a blood-thirsty mutant family...and they are the prey.

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Cast

Aaron Stanford

Doug

Dan Byrd

Bobby

Emilie de Ravin

Brenda

Vinessa Shaw

Lynn

Ted Levine

Big Bob

Kathleen Quinlan

Ethel

Tom Bower

Gas Station Attendant

Billy Drago

Papa Jupiter

Robert Joy

Lizard

Desmond Askew

Big Brain

Details

Director

Alexandre Aja

Screenplay

Alexandre Aja

Tagline

"The lucky ones die first."

Status

Released

Original Language

EN

Budget

$15,000,000

Revenue

$69,623,713

Production

Fox Searchlight Pictures, Craven-Maddalena Films, Major Studio Partners, Dune Entertainment

Reviews

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Gimly

October 26, 2018

★ 8/10

One of the best horror remakes to come out in this most recent trend. Rather than ignoring its source material, or taking the other extreme of drearily rehashing it scene for scene, Aja and Levasseur's _The Hills Have Eyes_ simply expands and improves upon the original. _Final rating:★★★★ - Very strong appeal. A personal favourite._

C

CinemaSerf

April 21, 2022

★ 6/10

Aside from some pretty significant plausibility issues, this is actually quite a decent shock horror. A family stop off at gas station where the elderly attendant tells them of a dirt track shortcut across the desert that will save them a few hours. Towing their caravan, off they go, but when a puncture causes them to lose control and crash into a big rock, they begin to realise that they are not ...