UHM - Review - The Hills Have Eyes

I remember seeing the sequel to this film and thinking it sucked, which made me not want to bother checking the first. That was a mistake, because after a while I started hearing a lot of people say the first was good. After a while I finally got my hands on a copy of this and enjoying it a lot more than I thought I would. This has to be one of Wes Craven's better films, aside from A Nightmare on Elm Street and People Under the Stairs. I'm not much of a Wes Craven fan myself anyway.

The story is about a family on a road trip to California, who passes through a desert area and end up in a wreck in an Air Force testing area. A couple of them decide to split up to find help while the others stay behind. As they split a family of cannibals, who live in the desert, decide to pick them off. The plot for this movie isn't too original, but it was still a good movie. The acting was good and it had some unexpected deaths around the middle, which I liked. This was around the time Wes made darker films, like Last House on the Left, which rape scene, was deemed "too realistic".

I thought the deaths weren't too bad and some scenes were suspenseful since a lot was done during the night. I don't know why, but I'm rather fond of movies where a group end up getting mixed up with a family or another group of some sort, which live in the middle of nowhere. I guess that's another reason why I really enjoyed this movie. There's a decent amount of blood and gore in this. I would have given the movie a higher-rating, but I didn't like the ending too much. I felt that it ended too soon; a good movie either way.

OVERALL

One of Wes Craven's better films; predictable, but good story. A good movie, that I felt ended too soon. Rent this if you're a fan of Wes or want to see a good film.

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Werewolf Hunter :

Posted 170 days ago

Eh...it's OK. The remake in my opinion is far superior. And the only decent movie I think Craven eber made was "The People Under the Stairs".

Devils_Reject :

Posted 205 days ago

A good film decent deaths, the killers are pretty cool but twisted and quite tense every now and then but it ended way too quickly, when it ended i thought wtf, is that it? The remake is better, i give this 7/10

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