The Hills Have Eyes 2
A group of National Guard trainees on a routine mission find themselves up against cannibalistic mutants in the New Mexico desert.
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- Cast:
- Michael McMillian , Jessica Stroup , Jacob Vargas , Flex Alexander , Michael Bailey Smith , Lee Thompson Young , Daniella Alonso
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The Worst Film Ever
Lack of good storyline.
A story that's too fascinating to pass by...
A movie that not only functions as a solid scarefest but a razor-sharp satire.
More indistinguishable radioactive mutants cannibalising people, this time it's a group of indistinguishable military personnel on a ludicrous training mission in the Moroccan - er, I mean Nevada, desert. Like its predecessor, this quickie sequel was filmed in Oarzazarte, Morocco, which completely lacks the mood and otherworldly atmosphere of the desert in the original 1977 film.More gross, yet thoroughly boring and formulaic, effects, the likes of which can be witnessed in any torture porn flick (with the possible exception of the mutant birth opening scene, or the dying man climbing up through the toilet, the nadir of the film ) Structurally, this film is a mess, with no clear beginning, middle, or end. People exist and things happen just because the script says so, without any reason. It seems like this entire film exists solely to set up another sequel, which thankfully has never materialised.
(Originally seen many years ago) I have never seen the first one, and I never will, because this absolute pile of garbage is among the nastiest pieces of inhumane garbage I have ever seen. This time the army are attacked by vile creatures, the creatures slash them, stab them and you get the rest, but what makes it even more revolting is the fact one of them rape's a woman so she can have baby mutants, I could have vomited, if I weren't familiar with the ugliness in these alleged horror films. I hate these film's with a passion, film's like this and Wolf Creek and the Halloween remakes are designed to entertain people while people are brutalised for the studio's profit. I hate every one of these vicious exercises in sadism, they are repulsive, nasty pieces of filth. 0/10
(This is a much shorter version of the review I wrote on my flightfromzion blog. tumblr.com/flightfromzion)The Hills Have Eyes II is the sequel to the The Hills Have Eyes remake of 2006. While most people would probably call that remake mediocre to bad, I actually did like it. I thought it was interesting, consistent, had a couple good performances, and I liked how it was shot. It wasn't perfect or even close to perfect, but I'd probably give it a 6.5/10. This movie however, is pretty bad. The editing is terrible, most of the acting is either held back or bad, the story is garbage, the characters are stupid, the dialogue is mediocre, and the pacing isn't great. However, it's not really the worst thing ever either. If I'm being completely honest, I can see the positive aspects and due to its solid tone, great score, and competent cinematography, if can certainly be enjoyable if you turn your brain off. Just don't expect it to challenge you as a viewer at all. Normally this would get a 4, but I consider this movie to be offensive in a way. Not to me, but to people of the National Guard. For them to be represented by the bumbling idiots in this movie has to be downright insulting. It is for these reasons that my final rating for this film is a 3/10.
Two years ago, a family stumbled onto Section 16 and some of them are killed. The military tries install monitoring equipment in the area but they are slaughter. A bumbling group of National Guardsmen are sent to support the camp but they find the place abandoned. They see a mirror signal from the top of the hills and they have trouble using their radio. A group is sent up to investigate but the Guardsmen are soon under attack.If Wes Craven got Emilie de Ravin to return, that would have been at least interesting. The first half is annoyingly stupid. For some reason, the mutants are unable to use guns and yet they keep besting the heavily armed Guardsmen. The Guardsmen keep pointing their guns up in the air when the mutants keep attacking them from right under their feet. They never check properly. Once they fall under ground, the movie does get a little better. It's more believable that mutants could win with hand-to-hand combat in the confined spaces. The claustrophobia adds a little to the horror atmosphere. However it's still never gets that good.