While Bobby confesses his story to the family, Jupiter's sons Pluto and Lizard infiltrate the trailer and Lizard sexually assaults Brenda, who stays with the baby, while using the distraction of immolating Bob to a tree. After Bobby is found by Brenda, they head back to the trailer until Doug returns, where the former encounters Jupiter and escapes from him. Bob attempts to flee in an abandoned car but is subdued by the mutant leader Papa Jupiter. Horrified, he confronts the hysterical attendant who commits suicide inside an outhouse. Doug heads towards the interstate and finds a huge crater filled with numerous abandoned cars and other items.īack at the gas station that night, Bob finds news clippings detailing various disappearances in the area after recent nuclear testings at a mining town by the US government that caused the mutants' deformities. Frightened, he runs and falls off the hill, knocking himself unconscious as a young female mutant Ruby protects him from her brother Goggle. Beauty escapes from the trailer and, when Bobby chases her into the hills, he finds her mutilated corpse. Doug and Bob go look for help, while the rest of the family stays behind. Not long after taking the supposed short-cut, their tires are punctured by a hidden spike strip. They stop at a gas station where an elderly attendant tells them of a different route through the hills. With them are their German Shepherds, Beauty and Beast, their children, Lynn, Brenda, and Bobby, Lynn's husband, Doug Bukowski, and their baby daughter Catherine. Retired detective Bob Carter and his wife Ethel are traveling from Cleveland to San Diego through the desert for their wedding anniversary. How is this considered a minor horror classic? It wasn't even horrifying.A group of scientists, who are testing the radiation levels of the New Mexico desert, are killed by a deformed mutant, Pluto, with a pickaxe. The filmmakers didn't even has the courtesy to give an actual ending, it just cuts off after a guy stabs one of the cannibals to death. Just like how the family's car breaks down and goes nowhere, this film goes nowhere.
THE HILLS HAVE EYES 2 MOVIE WIKI MOVIE
It is not like the concept of this movie was too bad, but the combination of terrible direction and execution made this movie hard to watch for all the wrong reasons. The movie is not even bloody or gory, not that more blood makes a film better but so many critics hype this film up as being "brutal". The script is very light on story and lacking in any compelling suspense or scares. The normal family in the film are bland and annoying, especially the sister in the shorty shorts. Not even the old man at the gas station seemed to have been afraid of them. At times it felt like the cannibal family was dying faster than the normal family, one of them was even killed by a dog. They wear the stupidest clothing (the mother looked like a Native American while one was dressed as a caveman), and say the most laughable dialogue I've ever heard. The cannibalistic family in this movie are a bunch of idiotic push-overs. This movie is pretty much Wes Craven ripping off "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre", except ineptly executed. It's absolutely mystifying why this calamity is so highly praised among the horror elite. Just because there is a shameless child-in-danger subplot doesn't mean the audience will be manipulated into paroxysmal terror. Even the bald Michael Berryman is more clueless and innocuous than volatile. In other words, it's Motley Crew tribute band and they are never once frighteningly feral. Mama could be a Native-American oracle with the beads around her scalp. 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. 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). The transition from day to night is practically instantaneous. This is a prime example of an underspiced premise that should be plowed further. 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. Normally it would be considered treason to remake a 70's "classic" from Wes Craven.