The HILLS HAVE EYES - the 2006 the Alexandre Aja directed remake of the Wes Craven classic is a superbly splattery horror romp through an remote abandoned nuclear test site. A gory gory actioner its a superiorly presented modern horror, much in a similar vein to The Wrong Turn and Texas Chainsaw Massacre reworking, and a horror movie that I found utterly appealing to me , what is it about mutants, stranded prey and cannibalism that I seem to find such appeal in? But please approach with caution - shocking , brutal and disturbing are words that readily spring to mind when describing this story - I would definitely regard this a film strictly for staunch followers of horror movies!
There's gore and blood shed aplenty in this tale of a vacationing family in peril, one such sequence which really ramps up the stress levels to a fever pitch is the violent trailer invasion by two of the deformed mutant cannibals. Among numerous atrocities committed one of them plucks the shrieking family budgie from its cage, bites off its head and squeezes blood from its headless body into his mouth and in doing so perfectly illustrating their ruthless and vicious nature. Having witness this act I suppose it make you feel real concerns when one of them (known as Lizard) points a hefty handgun at the babies head. Apparently this whole trailer sequence suffered heavy trimming in many shots and greatly shortened all to make it more palatable!
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| Useless trivia: At the start of the movie the family make a stop at a Gas station called GAS HAVEN - which rhymes with Wes Craven |
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