The Hills Have Eyes 2 (Unrated Edition)
National Guard soldiers stop at a New Mexican outpost only to find the isolated camp mysteriously deserted. Little do they know that these are the very hills that the ill-fated Carter family once visited, and that a tribe of cannibalistic mutants lies in wait.
For die-hard horror fans, The Hills Have Eyes 2 is a knock-off remake/sequel that delivers a few queasy thrills. While it represents a minor improvement over the 1985 sequel to Wes Craven's 1977 original (you know, the one with the notorious "canine flashback"), it's yet another cookie-cutter exercise in death by stupidity, focusing its Aliens-in-the-desert plot on a scrappy, ill-tempered unit of National Guard soldiers who've been sent to investigate the first remake's hellish aftermath in the bomb-tested wastelands of Nevada. (Like its far-superior 2006 predecessor, this sequel was shot on location in Morocco.) Unfortunately these bickering recruits are an embarrassment to their inauthentic-looking uniforms, and their reckless inexperience (not to mention a tired, uninspired screenplay by Craven and his son Jonathan) makes them easy targets for the ravenous, irradiated mutants who dwell within a treacherous network of tunnels and caves. As the generically good-looking cast is reduced to a few terrorized survivors (which somehow doesn't stop costars Jessica Stroup and Daniella Alonso from looking like fashion models), music-video director Martin Weisz switches to auto-pilot in his dubious feature debut, serving up a basically plotless succession of grisly makeup FX by Howard Berger and his crack team of gore-mongers. The gross-out factor is sufficiently amusing (including one soldier pulled through a hole with one leg in the totally wrong direction), but even devoted horror connoisseurs will have to admit this is pretty lame stuff. --Jeff Shannon
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The Hills Have Eyes 2 (Unrated Edition) Reviews
The acting wasn't too good and I went to sleep. So should the eyes on those hills. This is a matter of taste, but as much as I enjoy the occult, supernatural, and similar films, this one did not make the cut.
I don't regret watching it (or even owning it), but it's also not at the top of my list of great horror films. I didn't really get a good feel for the characters, and it seemed to be more focused on shock and gore than actual psychological terror. It's not a bad movie, and I don't have an opinion whether people should see it or not. I was a huge fan of the first. The over all plot of this one made a lot of sense, but the execution wasn't nearly as well done as the first.
It promised some sleaze in that the inbreds need new women to breed with, but they cut the throat of the woman who gives birth. It's a battle between two groups of dim-wits. What can I say about a film of a hapless National Guard unit that gets cut to ribbons my inbred cave-dwellers. Way to go.
Besides, the port-a-potty scene is worth the price of the disk alone. On the other hand if you want a fun horror film that can get you cheering for both the good guys and the bad guys.pick this movie up. Sure it's cliche horror, with a group of stereotypes fighting for their lives, but "The Hills Have Eyes 2" is a fun ride if not taken too seriously. If you are looking for another "disturbing" film along the lines of Aja's remake, the keep moving.
In it's place you have a fun story, loaded with gruesome special effects, heinous mutants and an exciting story. The basic storyline is that a group of national guardsman stumble into the lair of the atomically mutated cannibals from the first film. While the remake was full of unrelenting horror, this sequel plays out as a more violent version of "Deliverance" or "Southern Comfort", or maybe a desert version of "Aliens". The claustrophic feel of the Aja remake is kept intact, but the heavy sense of dread that permeated Aja's film is absent.
I may be in the minority, but I really enjoyed this film. If you loved the remake of "The Hills Have Eyes", then you will probably be disappointed in it's sequel "The Hills Have Eyes 2".
As this isn't as bad as the 1st one I didnt really care for this one either. I didn't like the 1st one at all. Watch the 1st one if you havent already and you'll get a feel of what the 2nd ones all about. I only watched this because my husband liked the 1st one and wanted to see the 2nd. Still has the raping of women in it to get more of theyre twisted ppl. Rent first.
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