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The Hills Have Eyes II (2007)

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Reviews Counted:61

Fresh:7

Rotten:54

Average Rating:3.3/10

Consensus: The Hills Have Eyes 2 is a completely unoriginal sequel offers plenty of gore and clichés, but few scares.

Rated: R

Runtime: 89 mins

Genre: Horror/Suspense

Theatrical Release:Mar 23, 2007 Wide

Box Office: $20,765,928

Synopsis: After a group of hapless National Guard troops fails a training exercise, their commanding officer (Flex Alexander, SNAKES ON A PLANE) orders them to deliver supplies to some scientists in Yuma... After a group of hapless National Guard troops fails a training exercise, their commanding officer (Flex Alexander, SNAKES ON A PLANE) orders them to deliver supplies to some scientists in Yuma Flats, New Mexico. The mutants from the first film (the unfortunate victims who live on nuclear testing ground) have returned to terrorize a group of Department of Defense researchers. The unlucky soldiers happen upon the remains of their camp (and its denizens), and the horrors begin. The inbred family of cannibals stalks the soldiers and picks them off, one by one, in gruesome fashion. Alejandre Aja (HIGH TENSION) directed the 2006 remake, but this sequel replaces Aja with Martin Weisz, whose first feature, ROHTENBERG, was banned in his native Germany. Written by genre master Wes Craven and his son Jonathan, THE HILLS HAVE EYES II is a sequel to the remake of Craven's original 1977 film. It's no coincidence that Craven changed this sequel's victims from a band of motorcyclists to a group of unlucky soldiers, giving the film political undertones. For a brief moment, this film addresses the idea that war may be the worst kind of horror, even when it's judged against mutant cannibals. [More]

Starring: Daniella Alonso, Michael McMillian, Michael Bailey Smith, Jeff Kober

Starring: Daniella Alonso, Michael McMillian, Michael Bailey Smith, Jeff Kober, Jay Acovone, Philip Pavel, Lee Thompson Young, Ben Crowley, Jessica Stroup, Reshad Strik, Eric Edelstein, David Reynolds, Derek Mears, Tyrell Kemlo, Javier Nieto, Gaspar Szabo, Jacob Vargas, Flex Alexander

Director: Martin Weisz

Director: Martin Weisz
Screenwriter: Jonathan Craven, Martin Weisz
Producer: Peter Locke, Wes Craven, Marianne Maddalena
Composer: Trevor Morris
Studio: Fox Atomic

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...could have been more than a pale shadow of the original if the filmmakers had taken their time...

Full Review Source: Filmcritic.com | comment Comment
08/02/09
Blake French
Blake French
Filmcritic.com

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Full Review Source: Hollywood.com | comment Comment
11/20/08
Michael Szymanski
Michael Szymanski
Hollywood.com

There is not any plot worth discussing: people go into a desert, some die. The end.

Full Review Source: Antagony & Ecstasy | comment Comment
09/27/07
Tim Brayton
Tim Brayton
Antagony & Ecstasy

In case you miss what's happening, one soldier wails, 'Oh, man, we're gettin' picked off one by one, here.'

Full Review Source: New York Post | comment Comment
08/22/07
Kyle Smith
Kyle Smith
New York Post
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It sucks balls.

Full Review Source: Film Freak Central | comment 2 Comments
08/15/07
Walter Chaw
Walter Chaw
Film Freak Central

...dull and interminable...

Full Review Source: Reel Film Reviews | comment Comment
08/09/07
David Nusair
David Nusair
Reel Film Reviews

Well, no, they don't. If they did and if they could see, they would have read the script, passed on it, and we all would have been better for it.

Full Review Source: Bangor Daily News (Maine) | comment Comment
07/26/07
Christopher Smith
Christopher Smith
Bangor Daily News (Maine)

Better made than most low budget and derivative movies of its genre, but it just doesn't have enough to stand out as anything more than an improvement upon those dregs.

Full Review Source: Apollo Guide | comment Comment
07/12/07
Brian Webster
Brian Webster
Apollo Guide

This horror fanatic doesn't have room for Craven in his genre anymore. Collect your cash and call it a day already, Wes...

Full Review Source: Film Threat | comment 1 Comment
07/10/07
Felix Vasquez Jr.
Felix Vasquez Jr.
Film Threat

a film as bloodily pointless as the current conflict in Iraq that it so unsubtly allegorises.

Full Review Source: Eye for Film | comment Comment
07/09/07
Anton Bitel
Anton Bitel
Eye for Film

Maybe it's just time to put an end to this mutant circle of life, or at least send it straight to DVD from now on.

Full Review Source: IGN Movies | comment Comment
06/25/07
Scott Collura
Scott Collura
IGN Movies

Another shining example of the sorry state of horror filmmaking these days

Full Review Source: Dark Horizons | comment Comment
04/24/07
Garth Franklin
Garth Franklin
Dark Horizons

Written, disappointingly, by Wes Craven and his son Jonathan, this limp sequel to last year's remake of Wes' 1977 original feels like the work of a guy who's spent a few too many days lost in the desert.

Full Review Source: New York Daily News | comment Comment
04/12/07
Elizabeth Weitzman
Elizabeth Weitzman
New York Daily News
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Haven't Our Soliders Suffered Enough?

Full Review Source: Film Snobs | comment 3 Comments
04/08/07
Jimmy O
Jimmy O
Film Snobs

It never generates a real sense of dread or building pressure. Instead, it uses its feeble set-up to string together one grisly shock after another.

Full Review Source: Q Network Film Desk | comment Comment
04/07/07
James Kendrick
James Kendrick
Q Network Film Desk

One man-versus-mutant dust-up ends with a sledgehammer to the groin. Enough said.

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04/02/07
Matt Zoller Seitz
Matt Zoller Seitz
New York Times
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The roman numeral in the title is the most sophisticated thing about the sequel. Otherwise, this radioactive spawn of Wes Craven is abysmal, stupid and -- horror of all horrors! -- incredibly boring.

Full Review Source: Jam! Movies | comment Comment
04/01/07
Bruce Kirkland
Bruce Kirkland
Jam! Movies

Although series creator Wes Craven wrote this sequel's script with his son Jonathan, the film has little of that filmmaker's usual sass.

Full Review Source: Austin Chronicle | comment Comment
04/01/07
Marjorie Baumgarten
Marjorie Baumgarten
Austin Chronicle

This team's descent is soon revealed as cockamamie: they're no longer trained fighters with automatic guns but victims in a splatter movie.

Full Review Source: PopMatters | comment Comment
04/01/07
Cynthia Fuchs
Cynthia Fuchs
PopMatters

The National Guardsmen and -women are picked off one by one in scenes of birth, death, rape and other carnage that aim to be as grotesque as possible.

Full Review Source: Boxoffice Magazine | comment Comment
03/31/07
Annlee Ellingson
Annlee Ellingson
Boxoffice Magazine
 
 
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