The Hills Have Eyes II review

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Mar 30th 2007 By Total Film

In 1985 Wes Craven shot himself in the foot with The Hills Have Eyes Part II, a shoddy sequel remembered (if at all) for its dirt bikers vs mutants plot and ludicrous use of dog flashbacks. Twenty-two years later, the writer/producer nearly does it again with this not-so-brutal, not-so-nasty follow-up to last year’s blood-red, pitch-black remake. Sticking a bunch of National Guardsmen (and gals) back in the desert, it’s a dimmer, dorkier mutant half-cousin several times removed from Alexandre Aja’s brutality. Helmer Martin Weisz plays it all for yuk-yuk-yuks, the “Gomer Pile” grunts several IQ points behind the retarded mutants as they re-enact Southern Comfort in them thar hills and mineshafts. Fingers in brains, thumbs in eyes and sledgehammers in the balls are straight outta Tom & Jerry: this time the hills are alive with the sound of larfing.

Film Details

18
UK Theatrical Release Date: Mar 30th 2007
Genre
- Horror
Starring
- Jacob Vargas
Director
- Martin Weisz
Screenwriter
- Wes Craven

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- blackhatchetboy
  Sep 6th 2010, 23:22
  
  Cheap horror can be amusing but this film has too big a budget to be this bad. The characters are the worst types of stereotypes and story is unexciting and not even that gorey.
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