Movie Night Traffic Light - The Hills Have Eyes

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	TITLE:	The Hills Have Eyes
	RATED:	R
	RELEASE DATE:	Friday March 10th, 2006
	PRODUCTION CO:	Craven-Maddalena Films (Distributor: Fox Searchlight Pictures)
	BUDGET:	$?
	DIRECTOR:	Alexandre Aja (High Tension)
	PRODUCER:	Peter Locke (The Hills Have Eyes, The Adventures of Pinocchio),Marianne Madallena (Red Eye, Scream series)
	WRITER:	Alexandre Aja (High Tension), Gregory Levasseur (High Tension)
	STARRING:	Emilie de Raven – Brenda Carter (Lost)
		Dan Byrd – Bobby Carter (A Cinderella Story)
		Aaron Stanford – Doug Bukowski (X2)
		Vinessa Shaw – Lynne Bukowski (Eyes Wide Shut)
		Kathleen Quinlan – Ethel Carter (Appollo 13, A Civil Action)
		Ted Levine – Bob Carter (Memoirs of a Geisha, Ali)

	REVIEW:
	The Hills Have Eyes is, of course, an updated version of the 1977 award winner for “Most Irrelevant Movie Title.” This movie is a remake of Wes Craven’s 1977 The Hills Have Eyes. Similar to the original, this movie begins when a family, on their way to California on vacation, takes a remote road that leads them to the middle of the New Mexico desert where their car breaks down leaving them stranded. What they don’t realize is that many years before, the United States Government did nuclear testing in that area and some of the residents refused to leave. Those residents were transformed into brutal, deformed, deranged cannibalistic mutants that are extremely pissed and will torture, kill and eat anyone that crosses their paths. In an extremely gruesome way, even for a horror film, members of the family are raped, burned alive, torn to pieces, brutally beaten, kidnapped and even devoured. No one is safe as mothers, fathers, children and pets fall prey to the mutants. One of the family members left to fight for her life is Brenda (Emilie de Raven) who joins forces with her brother and sister’s husband to rescue her baby nephew and wreak some seriously nasty revenge on the mutants. Blood, blood, guts and gore, there’s way too much plus a little more! The Hills Have Eyes is very classical in terms of the horror genre. It’s brutal imagery and well-timed action is guaranteed to gross you out, make you jump, and leave you temporarily terrorized. The monsters are creepy, the acting adequate, and the plot respectable. It’s not, however, really a “scary” movie. It’s disturbing and exciting, but you likely won’t have nightmares or be afraid to drive through New Mexico. But, if horror or terror is your addiction, then The Hills Have Eyes may be a great fix.

		MOVIE NIGHT TRAFFIC LIGHT:
		On the Movie Night Traffic Light on a scale of GREEN meaning “Go – it’s a must see”, YELLOW meaning “Caution – it’s okay” and RED meaning “No - stop don’t do it." We rate The Hills Have Eyes YELLOW. Caution – This has a whole lot of gore and disturbing scenes, but a pretty decent horror flick.