Studio: Tcfhe Release Date: 10/07/2008 Run time: 89 minutes Rating: Ur

For die-hard horror fans, The Hills Have Eyes 2 is a knock-off remake/sequel that delivers a few queasy thrills. While it represents a minor improvement over the 1985 sequel to Wes Craven's 1977 original (you know, the one with the notorious "canine flashback"), it's yet another cookie-cutter exercise in death by stupidity, focusing its Aliens-in-the-desert plot on a scrappy, ill-tempered unit of National Guard soldiers who've been sent to investigate the first remake's hellish aftermath in the bomb-tested wastelands of Nevada. (Like its far-superior 2006 predecessor, this sequel was shot on location in Morocco.) Unfortunately these bickering recruits are an embarrassment to their inauthentic-looking uniforms, and their reckless inexperience (not to mention a tired, uninspired screenplay by Craven and his son Jonathan) makes them easy targets for the ravenous, irradiated mutants who dwell within a treacherous network of tunnels and caves. As the generically! good-looking cast is reduced to a few terrorized survivors (which somehow doesn't stop costars Jessica Stroup and Daniella Alonso from looking like fashion models), music-video director Martin Weisz switches to auto-pilot in his dubious feature debut, serving up a basically plotless succession of grisly makeup FX by Howard Berger and his crack team of gore-mongers. The gross-out factor is sufficiently amusing (including one soldier pulled through a hole with one leg in the totally wrong direction), but even devoted horror connoisseurs will have to admit this is pretty lame stuff. --Jeff Shannon

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This is a matter of taste, but as much as I enjoy the occult, supernatural, and similar films, this one did not make the cut. The acting wasn't too good and I went to sleep. So should the eyes on those hills!

I was a huge fan of the first. The over all plot of this one made a lot of sense, but the execution wasn't nearly as well done as the first. I didn't really get a good feel for the characters, and it seemed to be more focused on shock and gore than actual psychological terror. It's not a bad movie, and I don't have an opinion whether people should see it or not. I don't regret watching it (or even owning it), but it's also not at the top of my list of great horror films.

What can I say about a film of a hapless National Guard unit that gets cut to ribbons my inbred cave-dwellers? It's a battle between two groups of dim-wits. It promised some sleaze in that the inbreds need new women to breed with, but they cut the throat of the woman who gives birth. Way to go!

If you loved the remake of "The Hills Have Eyes", then you will probably be disappointed in it's sequel "The Hills Have Eyes 2". While the remake was full of unrelenting horror, this sequel plays out as a more violent version of "Deliverance" or "Southern Comfort", or maybe a desert version of "Aliens". The basic storyline is that a group of national guardsman stumble into the lair of the atomically mutated cannibals from the first film.

I may be in the minority, but I really enjoyed this film. Sure it's cliche horror, with a group of stereotypes fighting for their lives, but "The Hills Have Eyes 2" is a fun ride if not taken too seriously. The claustrophic feel of the Aja remake is kept intact, but the heavy sense of dread that permeated Aja's film is absent. In it's place you have a fun story, loaded with gruesome special effects, heinous mutants and an exciting story.

If you are looking for another "disturbing" film along the lines of Aja's remake, the keep moving. On the other hand if you want a fun horror film that can get you cheering for both the good guys and the bad guys..pick this movie up. Besides, the port-a-potty scene is worth the price of the disk alone.

I only watched this because my husband liked the 1st one and wanted to see the 2nd. I didn't like the 1st one at all. As this isn't as bad as the 1st one I didnt really care for this one either. Still has the raping of women in it to get more of theyre twisted ppl. Watch the 1st one if you havent already and you'll get a feel of what the 2nd ones all about. Rent first!!!