How was the first one? (The 2nd one I really tried to watch but without seeing the 1st I just claimed it was real stupid).

This remake seems pretty tight though.

How was the first film?

The original was called "The Hills Have Kidney Stones"...didn't do too well, from what I remember.

Byron said:

lawd jesus

I've been meaning to see this for a long time now. Didn't know they were doing a remake. Who's in it?

The original was great! I love that movie. I hope the remake does it justice. I'm not sure if anyone big is in the remake. I believe Dee Wallace Stone was in the original.



Smooches;)

Wes Craven produced this remake i just discovered. Now i have hope for it cause he did a good job on his last movie Cursed about the werewolves last year!!

what is that movie about?

brownsugar said:

Some dumb teenagers go somewhere they know damn well they aint supposed to be at ya know, "what over that dark hill past the mountain?" bullshit then some Cannibals live there or something

brownsugar said:

A normal family out for a ride in a motorhome break down in a place that use to be used for nuclear testing. They soon come to find they are not the only ones out in the desert night. There is a fucked up family of killer freaks who eat, kill and or rape anyone that stumbles into this nomanland trap.

MickG said:

Mmhmm like i said above..lol

MickG said:

Because we all know that's what radiation does to people...

The Original is a classic horror flick. This remake is looking to be good from what I have seen of it. I believe it comes out this Friday.

MickG said:

is that dude who was in 1000 corpes?

brownsugar said:

Rob Zombie hand picks the people that stared in his movies because of their ocult background.

That is the guy that was in "The Devils Rejects" the second instalment of the house of 1000.

MickG said:

Man Devils Rejects was GOOD

paisleypark4 said:

I LOVE "living dead" zombie type movies, and I am hoping Rob Zombie's next film is a zombie movie. It makes sense right?

brownsugar said:

OMG!!! It's the Midnight Oil guy!

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"Gore disciples rejoice: Alexandre Aja's remake of The Hills Have Eyes hits like a hot blood baptism."

-- Dave Alexander, RUE MORGUE MAGAZINE

"Alexandre Aja's remake is remarkably faithful, directed with the same stark, stripped-down style as the original (but with considerably more flair..."

-- Sean Axmaker, SEATTLE POST-INTELLIGENCER

"I don't care for a French filmmaker making a contemptuous, smug, proselytizing allegory about the legacy of Yankee colonial/expansionist violence."

-- Walter Chaw, FILM FREAK CENTRAL

"A bleak, gripping, refreshingly non-Hollywood shock-fest."

-- Rich Cline, SHADOWS ON THE WALL

"As grim, grisly and gratuitous as the original movie, this remake serves about as little purpose."

-- Edward Douglas, COMINGSOON.NET

"Pushing the envelop for human carnage, Aja spares no stomach turning moment when it comes to hardcore violence."

-- Stefan Halley, HERO REALM

"[A] deep-down disturbing and surprisingly poignant riff on abandonment, inhuman isolation, and creepy desolation..."

-- MaryAnn Johanson, FLICK FILOSOPHER

"Hyper-violent, mean, and more interesting in what it does wrong than what it does right"

-- Brian Juergens, BLOODY DISGUSTING

"...if this is what you're looking for, you'll do just fine; but there's nothing fresh or mandatory here."

-- Andy Klein, LOS ANGELES CITYBEAT

"A good film, mostly but not entirely in the current horror mold, suspenseful and skillfully made."

-- Eugene Novikov, FILM BLATHER

"A bloody good time...Increases the gore level substantially, but thankfully director Aja stays close to the original's blueprint and keeps the suspense quotient high."

-- Chuck O'Leary, FULVUEDRIVE-IN.COM

"A horror buff's wet dream."

-- Dustin Putman, THEMOVIEBOY.COM

"When Aja does get going, he subtly and surprisingly elevates the tension like someone who knows what he's doing."

-- Jeffrey M. Anderson, COMBUSTIBLE CELLULOID

"Every time the movie veers toward political commentary and threatens to become interesting, Aja just throws some more severed limbs onto the screen."

-- Josh Bell, LAS VEGAS WEEKLY

"As for Aja's future in horror he better find some original material because hitching a ride on other people's glories will always be the other's glory."

-- Erik Childress, EFILMCRITIC.COM

"A note to the thrifty: Stopping to leer at fatal car wrecks is just as graphic, and requires no admission price."

-- Steve Crum, VIDEO-REVIEWMASTER.COM

"And to think that the French wonder why we hate them!"

-- Scott Foundas, L.A. WEEKLY

"The Hills Have Eyes, a remake of a 30-year-old shocker, is concerned with the impact of violence. It shows how grief-stricken the survivors are, and it's interested in where violent impulses come from."

-- Chris Hewitt (St. Paul), ST. PAUL PIONEER PRESS

"[A] deep-down disturbing and surprisingly poignant riff on abandonment, inhuman isolation, and creepy desolation..."

-- MaryAnn Johanson, FLICK FILOSOPHER

"In effect, this remake is a cover song recorded in a slicker studio with the best equipment."

-- Jeremiah Kipp, SLANT MAGAZINE

"The body count is higher than the scriptwriters' combined IQ's."

-- Jackie Loohauis, MILWAUKEE JOURNAL SENTINEL

"...a refreshingly brutal and thoroughly entertaining update of Wes Craven's 1977 cult classic."

-- David Nusair, REEL FILM REVIEWS

"Craven was looking to simply scare some folks with blunt violence and a subtle lecture on the primal nature of man. Aja's film is an absolute declaration of war."

-- Brian Orndorf, EFILMCRITIC.COM

"Hills isn't terrible, only terribly unnecessary."

-- Nathan Rabin, ONION AV CLUB






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"The net effect would be doze-inducing if in fact the Dolby didn't attempt to wake the dead."

-- Michael Atkinson, VILLAGE VOICE

"It's fair to say that this is one of the better horror films in recent months but that's more a comment on the weak field than it is a statement of unqualified praise."

-- James Berardinelli, REELVIEWS

"Using considerable creative intelligence and millions of dollars with no purpose other than profit by inspiring bloodlust is monstrous."

-- Colin Covert, MINNEAPOLIS STAR TRIBUNE

"It is not faulty logic that derails The Hills have Eyes, however, but faulty drama. The movie is a one-trick pony."

-- Roger Ebert, CHICAGO SUN-TIMES

"Yes, folks, it's a message movie."

-- Owen Gleiberman, ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY

"This remake of the alleged 1977 Wes Craven classic has one very disturbing quality: It's too damned good."

-- Stephen Hunter, WASHINGTON POST

"There's a distinct letdown after an astonishing and unexpected opening section, as if the gravitational pull toward trash-kitsch horror was too much to resist."

-- Robert Koehler, VARIETY

"Snobs may balk, purists will be appalled, but this new and exceedingly nasty version of Wes Craven's 1977 cult shocker is awfully good at what it does."

-- Nathan Lee, NEW YORK TIMES

"The story is more focused on a kind of meat-market smorgasbord mixed with political the-government-did-this-to-us overtones. It doesn't really work."

-- Bob Longino, ATLANTA JOURNAL-CONSTITUTION

"There is a strange lack of tension and no real jolts of fear in this remake of the 1977 Wes Craven film."

-- Claudia Puig, USA TODAY


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meltwithu said:

Looks like Ill be satisfied!

paisleypark4 said:

Like the old days hah, so i will be waiting for your review!!

MickG said:

Correct!

BTW, how did the original ended?

brownsugar said:

...and Weird Science?!!