The Hills Have Eyes

"The lucky ones die first."

2006 1h 47m EN

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Based on Wes Craven's 1977 suspenseful cult classic, The Hills Have Eyes is the story of a family road trip that goes terrifyingly awry when the travelers become stranded in a government atomic zone. Miles from nowhere, the Carter family soon realizes the seemingly uninhabited wasteland is actually the breeding ground of a blood-thirsty mutant family...and they are the prey.

“The lucky ones die first.”

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Cast

Aaron Stanford
Doug
Dan Byrd
Bobby
Emilie de Ravin
Brenda
Vinessa Shaw
Lynn
Ted Levine
Big Bob
Kathleen Quinlan
Ethel
Tom Bower
Gas Station Attendant
Billy Drago
Papa Jupiter

Credits

Behind the camera

Director: Alexandre Aja
Writers: Grégory Levasseur, Alexandre Aja, Adrian Cancer
Languages: English
Countries: France, United States of America

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MONEY

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Made its money back 4.6× over at the box office.

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2 / 8

ERA

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Released 20 years ago.

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3 / 8

WORLD

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International production across 2 countries: France, United States of America.

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4 / 8

CINEMA

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Part of the "The Hills Have Eyes (Reboot) Collection" — so the characters or world continue elsewhere.

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5 / 8

DIRECTOR

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Directed by Alexandre Aja, shot by Maxime Alexandre. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.

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6 / 8

DIRECTOR

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Original score by tomandandy. Worth a dedicated listen after — most great films lose half their impact without the score.

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7 / 8

DIRECTOR

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Editor Baxter shaped the rhythm. On an edit-heavy film, the editor does more to control your pulse than the director.

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8 / 8

CAST

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Aaron Stanford and Dan Byrd and Emilie de Ravin carry the top of the cast.

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Cinephile deep dive

The take

Alexandre Aja directs. Maxime Alexandre behind the camera. tomandandy scores. Baxter cuts. Made its budget back several times over at the box office. Produced in France, United States of America. Dialogue in English.

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1Made its money back 4.6× over at the box office.
2Released 20 years ago.
3International production across 2 countries: France, United States of America.
4Part of the "The Hills Have Eyes (Reboot) Collection" — so the characters or world continue elsewhere.
5Directed by Alexandre Aja, shot by Maxime Alexandre. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.
6Original score by tomandandy. Worth a dedicated listen after — most great films lose half their impact without the score.
7Editor Baxter shaped the rhythm. On an edit-heavy film, the editor does more to control your pulse than the director.
8Aaron Stanford and Dan Byrd and Emilie de Ravin carry the top of the cast.
9Marketing tagline: "The lucky ones die first.".
10IMDB entry: tt0454841 — still the authoritative cross-reference for credits and trivia.
11Classified under 20 themes, including "van", "rape", "ambush", "gas station".
12Released under 12 different titles around the world.

The technical file

Cinematography: Maxime Alexandre
Original score: tomandandy
Editing: Baxter
Production design: Joseph C. Nemec III
Costume design: Danny Glicker
Makeup / hair: Matteo Silvi
VFX supervisor: Jamison Scott Goei
Sound: Dane A. Davis
Stunt coordinator: Cedric Proust
Runtime: 107 min · 1h 47m
Aspect ratio (typical): 1.37:1 (Academy)
Status: Released
Budget: $15,000,000
Box office: $69,623,713
Return: 464% of budget
Original language: EN
Certification (US): R
IMDB: The Hills Have Eyes (2006)

Part of

The Hills Have Eyes (Reboot) Collection

Two films based on Wes Craven's classic 1977 horror film, which revolves around a family of cannibalistic mutants in the New Mexico desert.

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Gimly2018-10-26
★ 8/10
One of the best horror remakes to come out in this most recent trend. Rather than ignoring its source material, or taking the other extreme of drearily rehashing it scene for scene, Aja and Levasseur's The Hills Have Eyes simply expands and improves upon the original. Final rating:★★★★ - Very strong appeal. A personal favourite.
CinemaSerf2022-04-21
★ 6/10
Aside from some pretty significant plausibility issues, this is actually quite a decent shock horror. A family stop off at gas station where the elderly attendant tells them of a dirt track shortcut across the desert that will save them a few hours. Towing their caravan, off they go, but when a puncture causes them to lose control and crash into a big rock, they begin to realise that they are not the only folks nearby - and I use the term "folks" loosely. What now follows sees our travellers terrorised by some hideously mutated people who had been left there ever since the US Government carried out nuclear tests. Reduced to just 3, "Big Bob" (Ted Levine) and his faithful hound have to track down his kidnapped baby grandchild - a perilous journey indeed. Now quite why they decided to take the shortcut is just one of a few dodgy decision taken by the "Carter" family that made me wonder, and rendered the plot increasingly silly as we progress to an ending that seems to drag on a bit too long. That said, there are plenty of jump moments and Alexandre Aja manages to keep the annoyingly screaming hysteria to a minimum. Once it eventually gets going, it becomes decently paced and the photography is tightly cut to maximise the impact of some pretty gruesome scenarios (and prosthetics!). Though not as gritty as the 1977 original, I think it's still just as good.