Synopsis

A team of National Guard cadets stops over at a desert outpost to deliver equipment to some military scientists. They arrive at the research camp to find it mysteriously deserted. Hearing a distress call on their walkies, they set off on what they think is a simple rescue mission into the hills - only to find a tribe of mutants, damaged by nuclear testing, who lie in wait for them...

Official Review

2006’s The Hills Have Eyes remake was a major improvement over Wes Craven’s overrated and poorly paced original which featured a compellingly freakish Michael Berryman as its only memorable aspect. Alejandra Aja directed the remake with an admirable panache, staging some thrilling and stylish kill scenes while displaying a startling amount of apathy for his major characters. Like many previous films in the “survivalist horror” subgenre (Saw, Hostel, Wolf Creek), The Hills Have Eyes took a handful of protagonists and dumped them in a foreign land where they were captured and tortured by culturally and morally backwards outcasts. Thematically, parallels with the War in Iraq can certainly be drawn, and The Hills Have Eyes 2 takes this theme one step further by actually using a group of American soldiers as its protagonists, facing them off against a group of nuclear fallout freaks that, for all intents and purposes, might as well be wearing turbans and planting I.E.D.s. …Read More