The Hills Have Eyes1977
The Hills Have Eyes (1977)
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Cast

as Brenda Carter

as Bobby Carter

as Doug Wood

as Jupiter
as Ethel Carter

as Bob Carter
as Lynne Wood

as Katie Wood

as The Beast

as Mama

as Ruby
as Pluto

as Mars

as Mercury

as Fred

as Beauty
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Critic Reviews for The Hills Have Eyes
All Critics (27) | Top Critics (4) | Fresh (18) | Rotten (9) | DVD (11)
A satisfying piece of pulp.
A heady mix of ironic allegory and seat-edge tension.

Craven's latent sick streak gets a major workout here, and the rudest shocks seem to center around the "good" family's parental figures.
Inventive story ideas and humorous touches give this horror picture an enduring relevancy and stylistic flourish.

works as a taut thriller, but it also leaves plenty of room for political and ideological tunneling, if only for its horrific inversion of American family values
I've never been a Wes Craven fan, yet if there's one picture of his that I would place above all others, it would be The Hills Have Eyes.
Audience Reviews for The Hills Have Eyes
A cheap rip-off of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre with villains who are disgusting perverts that you want to see dead and main characters who act really stupid most of the time. By the end, it has no room for any moral questions, for a matter of life and death justifies anything.
Super Reviewer
Normally it would be considered treason to remake a 70's "classic" from Wes Craven. In the case of 'The Hills Have Eyes' though, the original is painfully inert and while the runtime is relatively short, the film shambles at a plodding pace. This is a prime example of an underspiced premise that should be plowed further. The transition from day to night is practically instantaneous. The family of soon-to-be-cannibalized victims range from dimwitted (Bobby is deliberately reticent to inform the others that their canine Beauty has been disemboweled and he won't divulge how he bruised his cheek) to hopelessly naïve (the mother mispronounces "may paw" as a distress call into the radio). As for the inbred hooligans at the center, they look like rejects from 'One Million Years B.C.' with tattered loincloths and Hall-and-Oates bouffant hairstyles. Mama could be a Native-American oracle with the beads around her scalp. In other words, it's Motley Crew tribute band and they are never once frighteningly feral. Even the bald Michael Berryman is more clueless and innocuous than volatile. Just because there is a shameless child-in-danger subplot doesn't mean the audience will be manipulated into paroxysmal terror. It's absolutely mystifying why this calamity is so highly praised among the horror elite.
Super Reviewer
Wes Craven's cult classic reeks of lost potential, and it's due to one factor: the actors are unable to sell the gut-wrenching, truly dreadful moments. The happenings of this plot are the types that make me tear up and wonder if hope is just a stupid distraction in this cruel world. What I really ended up thinking was "OH YEAH, YOU GO DOGGY, YOU BITE THAT ANKLE, SUCK IT CANNIBAL MAN, HAHAHA"
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The Hills Have Eyes Quotes
Brenda Carter: | We're gonna be french fries! Human french fries! |