The Worst Film Ever

Memorable, crazy movie

It is not deep, but it is fun to watch. It does have a bit more of an edge to it than other similar films.

When a movie has you begging for it to end not even half way through it's pure crap. We've all seen this movie and this characters millions of times, nothing new in it. Don't waste your time.

Believe me a 7 for a 'B' horror movie like this , is like a 10 rating for a 'typical' film. This film was at the top of my rating , for this genre. The movie had the gore that I like. The twists were predictable but the film did flow. I liked the fact that there was sexual tension added between the cannibals and the victims. I felt that was a nice touch,interesting,and not overdone. I do not watch these types of movies to get Sean Penn, Johnny Depp or Katherine Hepburn type of acting. It is what it is...You do not eat fast food for gourmet purposes! There was a bit of nudity in select moments. Overall, worthwhile horror flick to watch and if you have the DVD, rent it or get it from your local library , watch the BEHIND THE SCENES Extra.It was very informative. Enjoy!

Hillside Cannibals start as five teens arrive in a 'middle of nowhere' type desert location 50 miles from the nearest town to go cave spelunking, they set up camp for the night but are attacked by a group of vicious cannibals that live in the caves they intended to go spelunking in (isn't spelunking a great word? I think there should be more opportunities in the English language to use the word spelunking). Three are killed right off the bat, Bill (Tom Nagel) is taken captive while Linda (Heather Conforto) is torn between escaping herself & rescuing her boyfriend. Stupidly she decides to do the later which sort of ends in tears for everyone...Directed by Leigh Scott who also played the role of Sawney Bean/David in the film Hillside Cannibals has a terrible reputation & I can't find a single person who has said a good word about it & once you actually sit through it you'll fully understand why it's considered such a terrible film & why it has such a (deserved) low user rating on the IMDb. The script by Steve Bevilacqua is a straight forward & shameless The Hills Have Eyes (the original 1977 one & the 2006 remake) rip-off/cash-in which takes a pretty simplistic story & makes it even simpler, at least The Hills Have Eyes has a proper family, good character's & the cannibal killers themselves were given some personality but Hillside Cannibals gives us some bland faceless teens who aren't even given names in the film proper (the names in my ploy synopsis I got from the IMDb cast list & since Linda & Bill were at the top I assume they were the stars), they do stupid things, the plot revolves around & takes place in one dark cave which becomes repetitive, the predictable attempt at a plot twist will surprise no-one while it has an ending which will make you think 'what was the point in me watching that crap'. Also the cannibals themselves are a big problem, they don't ever speak & instead just grunt & make noises at each other which means there's not much dialogue & it's hard to tell them apart, it's hard to make out what their trying to do or why they are doing it & it's just not much fun to watch a film where a lot of the time people communicate using grunts & groans which mean absolutely nothing to the average human being. Oh, one more thing if the cannibals can't speak English how do they know what the Sheriff is saying to them?Director Scott turns in an intensely annoying film, the majority of it takes place at night in a cave where the only light source is a burning fire which leaves massive areas of the frame totally in darkness. The flickering low level orange colour scheme is horrible to sit through for 80 straight minutes & I don't know if it was just me but I found it almost impossible at times to see what was going on, I couldn't tell one stinking cannibal apart from another because they never spoke, they weren't given names & they all looked almost exactly the same in the horrible low level lighting & dark caves. Hillside Cannibals is one of the worst looking films I've seen in quite a while & in this day & age of high definition, DVD & digital cable TV there is no excuse to make a film which is so poorly lit it's difficult to understand what's happening on screen & be uncertain who character's are. Gore wise this is a big disappointment, again maybe the lighting had something to do with it but there's not much blood or violence here at all. Someone has a couple of fingers cut off with a pair of scissors, someone is sliced in half, someone has a machete stuck in their throat while someone else has a knife stuck in theirs, someone has both is legs cut off, one cannibal slices the skin off a couple of corpses faces which he then wears (in a The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974) rip-off) & the cannibals eat some severed fingers. To be honest it's pretty unimpressive stuff, Cannibal Ferox (1981) this ain't!With a supposed budget of about $600,000 this obviously didn't have a lot of money spent on it but even so that's no excuse to turn in such bad film. Many filmmakers have turned in better films on less money than that I'm afraid. Apparently shot in Yermo in California in the Calico ghost town whatever that is. The acting sucks big time from nobody that will ever appear in anything worthwhile.Hillside Cannibals is crap, everyone who has seen it says so & it's very easy to understand why. No entertainment, poorly lit & shot, terrible character's, clichéd & predictable plot, virtually no dialogue, not enough gore & an awful ending. Not a film I would recommend seeing.

right this must act as a warning stay away from this garbage film, I'm already miffed that i got suckered in and actually paid for the DVD. This tedious garbage seems to be utterly devoid of plot, all you get is some kids (of which it is impossible to care about devoid of personality as they are) go to the dessert get eaten by cannonballs who enjoy incest, thats it the plot save you watching this utter utter tripe. The only thing that is mildly decent about this is the effects are OK which hints at either a really good effects team or this film was funded far more money than it deserves. Terrible STAY AWAY. Seriously terrible not even in the so bad its good category

Alright, I was in Blockbuster today on my lunch break and spotted to preview sleeves for this (both copies were actually rented out). It claimed to be the tale that inspired the Hills Have Eyes. Um, WHAT?! That is the most bogus claim I've ever read! Hey director/script writer: watch the documentary on the original Hills Have Eyes (1977) 2-disk by Anchor Bay. In it, Wes Craven states that the inspiration for the Hills Have Eyes was a cave-dwelling medieval (sp?) family in the British Isles (the Seaney-Beane family I believe). Wes Craven should sue the hell out of the "production company" of this "film" for libel! I am insulted that anyone would try to cash in on film-renters' ignorance of a subject by just plain lying. I came across another video box for "When A Killer Calls" which claims to be more like the urban legend (the babysitter and the man upstairs) than the original When A Stranger Calls. RUBBISH! I CALL SHINANIGANS!!