The Hills Have Eyes 2 (Blu-ray)
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Blu-ray Details
- Rated: Unrated
- Run Time: 1 hours, 29 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: March 31, 2009
- Originally Released: 2007
- Label: 20Th Century Studios
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Daniella Alonso | |
Performer: | Michael McMillian, Michael Bailey Smith, Jeff Kober, Jay Acovone, Lee Thompson Young, Ben Crowley, Jessica Stroup, Reshad Strik, Eric Edelstein, David Reynolds, Derek Mears, Jacob Vargas, Flex Alexander & Philip Pavel | |
Directed by | Martin Weisz | |
Screenwriting by | Jonathan Craven & Martin Weisz | |
Composition by | Trevor Morris | |
Produced by | Peter Locke, Wes Craven & Marianne Maddalena | |
Director of Photography: | Sam McCurdy | |
Executive Production by | Jonathan Debin |
Entertainment Reviews:
3 stars out of 5 -- [O]nce the violence begins in earnest, Weisz positions the jolts for maximum effectiveness.
Ultimate DVD
Rating: 2.5/5 --
It's no better or worse than most films of its genre.
Arizona Republic
Rating: 2.5/5 --
...could have been more than a pale shadow of the original if the filmmakers had taken their time...
Filmcritic.com
Rating: 2/5 --
While the first remake successfully captured the original's disturbing edge, this one seems too dead-set on upping the ante.
Full Review
Black Horror Movies
As far as stuff like mood, atmosphere, tone, and intensity is concerned, this sequel is a completely empty vessel.
Full Review
TheHorrorShow
Rating: 1.5/4 --
In case you miss what's happening, one soldier wails, 'Oh, man, we're gettin' picked off one by one, here.'
New York Post
Rating: 1.5/5 --
One man-versus-mutant dust-up ends with a sledgehammer to the groin. Enough said.
New York Times
Product Description:
After a group of hapless National Guard troops fails a training exercise, their commanding officer (Flex Alexander, SNAKES ON A PLANE) orders them to deliver supplies to some scientists in Yuma Flats, New Mexico. The mutants from the first film (the unfortunate victims who live on nuclear testing ground) have returned to terrorize a group of Department of Defense researchers. The unlucky soldiers happen upon the remains of their camp (and its denizens), and the horrors begin. The inbred family of cannibals stalks the soldiers and picks them off, one by one, in gruesome fashion.
Alejandre Aja (HIGH TENSION) directed the 2006 remake, but this sequel replaces Aja with Martin Weisz, whose first feature, ROHTENBERG, was banned in his native Germany. Written by genre master Wes Craven and his son Jonathan, THE HILLS HAVE EYES II is a sequel to the remake of Craven's original 1977 film. It's no coincidence that Craven changed this sequel's victims from a band of motorcyclists to a group of unlucky soldiers, giving the film political undertones. For a brief moment, this film addresses the idea that war may be the worst kind of horror, even when it's judged against mutant cannibals.
Alejandre Aja (HIGH TENSION) directed the 2006 remake, but this sequel replaces Aja with Martin Weisz, whose first feature, ROHTENBERG, was banned in his native Germany. Written by genre master Wes Craven and his son Jonathan, THE HILLS HAVE EYES II is a sequel to the remake of Craven's original 1977 film. It's no coincidence that Craven changed this sequel's victims from a band of motorcyclists to a group of unlucky soldiers, giving the film political undertones. For a brief moment, this film addresses the idea that war may be the worst kind of horror, even when it's judged against mutant cannibals.