Review of The Hills Have Eyes (2006) by Jim M — 24 Oct 2011

The Carter Family (Ted Levine, Kathleen Quinlan, Vinessa Shaw, Aaron Stanford, Dan Byrd, Emilie de Ravin, 2 German Shepherds and a baby) are travelling cross country when after some bad directions they're trapped in the New Mexico desert and beset upon by a band of inbred mutants, the descendants of local miners who refused to move when the goverment began testing Atomic Bombs.

Deceint horror movie let down by it predictability. Like most movies of its type (city folk beset by nightmarish rednecks) it 1)Intoduces the characters 2)Have the City folk indure all manner of depravity and 3)Have the city folk unleash a rightous ass whoppin. The problem here is its all so uninspired and telegraphed (ie. Ted Levine gets on Stanfords case "He's a Democrat, he doesn't believe in guns" when passing out guns, no surprise then when A)Levine is killed and B) Stanford takes up arms and violently defends whats left of his family). A time waister nothing more.