#THE HILLS HAVE EYES 2 MOVIE REVIEW SERIES#

#THE HILLS HAVE EYES 2 MOVIE REVIEW SERIES#

He also created the tv series The People Next Door (1989) and Nightmare Cafe (1992).This product was provided by Arrow Video for the purpose of this review. Wes Craven has also written the scripts for A Nightmare on Elm Street III: The Dream Warriors (1987), Pulse (2006) and The Hills Have Eyes II, and produced Wishmaster (1997), Carnival of Souls (1998), DonвЂ™t Look Down (1998), Dracula 2000 (2000), Feast (2006), The Breed (2006), The Hills Have Eyes (2006), The Last House on the Left (2009), The Girl in the Photographs (2015) and the tv series Scream: The Series (2015-9). Wes CravenвЂ™s other genre films are Summer of Fear/Stranger in Our House (1978), Deadly Blessing (1981), Swamp Thing (1982), Invitation to Hell (tv movie, 1984), A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984), Chiller (tv movie, 1985), Deadly Friend (1986), The Serpent and the Rainbow (1988), Shocker (1989), Night Visions (tv movie, 1990), The People Under the Stairs (1991), Wes CravenвЂ™s New Nightmare (1994), Vampire in Brooklyn (1995), Scream (1996) Scream 2 (1997), Scream 3 (2000), Cursed (2005), My Soul to Take (2010) and Scre4m/Scream 4 (2011). This film was later remade as The Hills Have Eyes (2006), which in turn produced its own sequel The Hills Have Eyes II (2007). The Craven-produced Mind Ripper (1995) purportedly started out as a third Hills Have Eyes film. Wes Craven made a disappointingly poor sequel The Hills Have Eyes Part II (1985). The most notable name to emerge from the cast was Dee Wallace who would later go onto roles in The Howling (1981), Critters (1986) and of course as the mom in E.T. The Hills Have Eyes was also notable for introducing to screens the bald-headed Michael Berryman who has since lent his bizarre presence to a number of genre films. On the other hand, The Hills Have Eyes lacks the vicious irony of Last HouseвЂs ending where the justice exacted by the family became more vicious than the original attacks. There is certainly the sense of a conservative family вЂ“ the father is a harsh authoritarian, a traditional Christian and a racist вЂ“ being brutalised and torn apart, and some nastiness вЂ“ people being dragged along attached to the wheels of a car, being blown up inside the campervan, and the final freeze-frame on a stabbing. Moreover, the familyвЂ™s descent into barbarism and the savagery of their revenge is a much more muted theme than it was in The Last House on the Left. Pluto played by Michael Berryman who became a regular horror actor on the basis of this role A then-unknown Dee Wallace It becomes repetitive in all the runnings from Point A to Point B and back again. However, the film loses atmosphere when it gets to the scenes with the family fighting back and it changes its nature from a primal attack film into more of an action piece. Wes Craven certainly generates a reasonable tension, agoraphobically constricting the film to a single stretch of road. It lacks the sheer savagery of Last HouseвЂs revenge scenes or the wild all-out intensity of The Texas Chain Saw Massacre. That said, The Hills Have Eyes remains a little too much in the shadow of either The Last House on the Left or The Texas Chain Saw Massacre. The Hills Have Eyes also bears the unmistakable influence of the backwoods brutality classic The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974), which had become a genre landmark in between the time that Wes Craven made Last House and The Hills Have Eyes вЂ“ with Craven borrowing Texas Chain SawвЂs theme of the group of innocents straying into the domain of crazed backwoods family who survive by preying on others (although Wes Craven does claim to have based The Hills Have Eyes on the legend of the 15th-16th Century Scottish Sawney Beane clan). He transplants the milieu from upstate New York to the Arizona desert but the story is essentially the same вЂ“ that of a group of wild killers preying upon a group of innocents and the same reversal wherein the family are reduced to barbarism as they exact a nasty revenge on their attackers.

With The Hills Have Eyes, Wes Craven has a better budget at hand. The Hills Have Eyes was his follow-up and is a clear effort to make another Last House. Wes Craven made a strong directorial debut with the notoriously violent revenge film The Last House on the Left (1972).

The hills have eyes 2 movie review