Review by Vives Anunciacion The Hills Have Eyes Directed by Alexandre Aja Written by Alexandre Aja, Gregory Levasseur Starring Aaron Stanford, Kathleen Quinlan, Emilie de Ravin R18/ 107minutes 20th Century Fox Here’s a dare for horror movie regulars who think they’ve seen them all: try to see The Hills Have Eyes all by yourself. Or simply try not to cover your eyes and actually watch this remake of horror master Wes Craven’s 1977 classic. It has the ingredients to scare people out of their skins. There’s a recent epidemic of extreme violence in movies, especially horror movies which have no choice but to explore the unspeakable lurking in the darkest corners of our collective imagination. Hostel had its victims’ fingers cut off by pliers. In Venom, the killer’s favorite weapon of human destruction was a crowbar. In The Hills Have Eyes, a family traveling through the dusty New Mexican desert is terrorized by sadistic, bloodthirsty creatures, who turn out to be the mutant victims of WW2 ...
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