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- 2007
- Unrated
- Fox Atomic
- 1 h 29 m
- 2007
- Unrated
- Fox Atomic
- 1 h 29 m
Summary As part of a routine mission, a unit of National Guard soldiers stops at a New Mexico outpost in order to deliver equipment to a group of atomic scientists. When they arrive at the isolated research camp, however, they find it is mysteriously deserted. After spotting a distress signal in a distant mountain range, the team decides to emba...
Directed By: Martin Weisz
Written By: Wes Craven, Jonathan Craven
- 2007
- Unrated
- Fox Atomic
- 1 h 29 m
- 2007
- Unrated
- Fox Atomic
- 1 h 29 m
The Hills Have Eyes II
32
5.8
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Summary As part of a routine mission, a unit of National Guard soldiers stops at a New Mexico outpost in order to deliver equipment to a group of atomic scientists. When they arrive at the isolated research camp, however, they find it is mysteriously deserted. After spotting a distress signal in a distant mountain range, the team decides to emba...
Directed By: Martin Weisz
Written By: Wes Craven, Jonathan Craven
Where to Watch
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Metascore
Generally Unfavorable
Based on 18 Critic Reviews
32
6% Positive
1 Review
1 Review
44% Mixed
8 Reviews
8 Reviews
50% Negative
9 Reviews
9 Reviews
Metascore
Generally Unfavorable
Based on 18 Critic Reviews
32
6% Positive
1 Review
1 Review
44% Mixed
8 Reviews
8 Reviews
50% Negative
9 Reviews
9 Reviews
The director, Martin Weisz , doesn't lean on a lot of noise and editing tricks. He can relax, since all the scares are built into the Cravens' script, which invokes both "Goonies" and last year's instant-classic, chicks-versus-cave-dwelling-vampires flick "The Descent."
For anyone other than hardcore gore-hounds, this flipbook of deliberately invoked global-unrest horrors, from friendly-fire killings to rape as a breeding weapon, is effectively mean and unrelenting--and pretty far from fun.
User Score
Mixed or Average
Based on 67 User Ratings
5.8
34% Positive
23 Ratings
23 Ratings
45% Mixed
30 Ratings
30 Ratings
21% Negative
14 Ratings
14 Ratings
User Score
Mixed or Average
Based on 67 User Ratings
5.8
34% Positive
23 Ratings
23 Ratings
45% Mixed
30 Ratings
30 Ratings
21% Negative
14 Ratings
14 Ratings
Cool and creepy, i seriously cannot understand why critics hated this movie, are you all high? are you ****? who knows, either way, i really enjoyed it.
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Well cast, scary, not pg-13, like stay alive, it may have a small pacing issue, but that is really the only thing wrong, it is a great horror film, and that's what people need.
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Though written by Wes Craven and his son, Jonathan Craven, this is pretty standard stuff: A lot of creeping through dark tunnels with just enough characterization to help you keep track of who's still alive, but not enough gore to really satisfy fans of Aja's bloodbath.
A perfunctory gore fest and quite possibly the year's worst date movie.
As a fan of the genre, and someone who genuinely loves such recent horror efforts as "The Descent" and "The Host," I respectfully suggest that the atmosphere for horror movies might be better if moviemakers stopped making ones like this.
On the whole, this is an awfully long slog through very arid terrain, in which generic soldiers track, fight and try to escape from generic villains (you'd be surprised at how uninteresting mutant flesh-eaters can be). I can't speak for the hills, but I spent most of the movie just trying to keep my eyes open.
This horror fanatic doesn't have room for Craven in his genre anymore. Collect your cash and call it a day already, Wes.
Phenomenal
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Sometimes the acting gets stale, sometimes the film gets boring, and sometimes it does get murky, but it is still effective, and it is by no means a bad entry into the franchise, it certainly tops the original sequel to the original film.
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While I've never seen it myself, I'm aware that the sequel to the original The Hills Have Eyes, aptly titled "Part 2," has something of a disastrous reputation, with even Wes Craven himself reportedly disowning it. The prolific horror icon had a chance to right that wrong here in this follow-up to the 2006 remake though as he stepped into the writer's chair with his son Jonathan. Unfortunately, what we got only provides further evidence that despite a strong telling and even stronger retelling of that first story this property was never destined to become a long-running franchise.
Those hoping this would one-up the sick thrills of its predecessor may take some comfort in knowing that things get even nastier as we follow around a group of obnoxious soldier stereotypes that make the cast of of 2020's Monster Hunter seem charismatic by comparison. All of whom are unlikable, horrendously acted, spout the worst expletive-filled dialog ever put to paper, and make only the dumbest possible decisions in any given scenario. The action peaks VERY early on however in the opening birthing sequence that is so graphic and brutal it puts even the one in The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning to shame. Most of what comes after is a lot of generic amputations and impalements that are brought to life by lackluster gore effects.
None of it is scary or disturbing. It's just gross, favoring icky porta potty kills and particularly savage **** sequences over anything legitimately clever or unsettling. It's all shock value that's as cheap and ugly as the often straight-to-DVD quality visuals are. It doesn't even get the look right as it ditches the arid desert scenery in the second-half for the mutants' homemade, ramshackle living quarters hidden underground that call to mind Platinum Dunes' 2003 reboot of the Leatherface family chronicles over The Hills Have Eyes. Mutants who, by the way, come off more like rejected X-Men villains than malformed backwater psychopaths this time around.
Clearly designed with the intent to kick off a series capable of churning out a seemingly endless array of future installments à la Hellraiser or Children of the Corn, this frightless disaster is as passionless as it is tasteless even with the Cravens' involvement. If this is the direction they were honestly planning on going then horror fans are better off without it. Especially since the prequel comic I read made it clear that sexual assault was going to be a staple. I'm sure it would have had a following among the likes of those who made it possible for The Human Centipede to become a trilogy, but you wouldn't find me in their ranks as I consider this to be truly one of the worst movies I have ever seen.
3.8/10
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One character notes that the mutants are "smart". In fact, the antagonists are dumb and the protagonists are brain-numbingly stupid. So God knows what we're supposed to be. Fortunately it doesn't take long for these appallingly written characters to start dying in this pathetic, boring sequel. If you thought the original was overly clichéd, you ain't seen nothing yet.
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Production Company
Fox Atomic,
Craven-Maddalena Films,
Dune Entertainment,
CLA Studios
Release Date Mar 23, 2007
Duration 1 h 29 m
Rating Unrated
Tagline The lucky ones die fast.
