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Violence is plentiful and intense in 'The Hills Have Eyes'

Hollywood remakes are a dime a dozen, and let's not even start in on how studio suits have been trashing classic low-budget American horror by filming inferior do-overs. Wes Craven's well-liked 1977 "The Hills Have Eyes," with its creepy cannibals mutated by atomic testing fallout out West, is the latest redo. From time to time, it's at least a remake that works. Read the full review

TO SUM UP
The Carter family road trip goes terrifyingly awry when they become stranded in a government atomic zone in the desert. Miles from nowhere, the family soon realizes the seemingly uninhabited wasteland is actually the breeding ground of a blood-thirsty mutant family — and the Carters are the prey.

FILM FACTS ...
Fox Searchlight Pictures
'The Hills Have Eyes'

Director: Alexandre Aja
Starring: Aaron Stanford, Ted Levine, Kathleen Quinlan, Vinessa Shaw, Emilie De Ravin
Run time: 107 minutes
Release date: March 10, 2000
Rating: R for strong gruesome violence and terror throughout, and for language.
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The Atlanta Journal-Constitution: C
"Sometimes it works, sometimes it's just horror-movie overkill."

Austin American-Statesman: 2 of 5 stars
"... camp goofiness is the main, albeit slight, reason to keep our eyes on the action in these hills."


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