Helloturia I have absolutely never seen anything like this movie before. You have to see this movie.

Raymond Sierra The film may be flawed, but its message is not.

Kimball Exactly the movie you think it is, but not the movie you want it to be.

Dana An old-fashioned movie made with new-fashioned finesse.

DigitalRevenantX7 Years after the massacre of the Carter family by the cannibals in the Air Force gunnery range, Bobby Carter has now married Ruby, the cannibal girl who saved him. She now calls herself Rachel & together the couple run a Yamaha dirt bike dealership. Rachel decides to go along with a team of professional dirt bike riders to a competition, which takes them deep into the territory where Rachel's family used to roam. But what she doesn't know is that one of her brothers, Pluto, has survived & together with an uncle named Reaper are still active in the area. When their bus breaks down in the desert area, the team are picked off one by one by the cannibals. The Hills Have Eyes was Wes Craven's second film & his first real classic – a brutal survivalist tale where two families took on each other for survival in a brutal battle. In the same year as his greatest work, the original A Nightmare on Elm Street, Craven decided to mount a sequel to Hills. Not that it left the door open for one – Craven had to retcon some details in order to 'revive' Michael Berryman's character Pluto & create an entirely new character in the Reaper. The only other members to make a return are Robert Houston (who only appears in some early scenes) & Janus Blythe, the cannibal girl now civilised adult.While the original was a minor classic & an important part of Wes Craven's career (the director would later mount a remake & a further sequel to it), this sequel is a far cry from the brutal intensity of the original. This time out, Craven treats the setup in a more slasher-like fashion (slasher films were the rage then), without any of the intelligence that he demonstrated in the original. The film moves with the pace of your average Friday the 13th sequel & even with a similar score, courtesy of that franchise's musical hack Harry Manfredini. The killings are no longer brutally visceral but standard slasher stalk-&-slash. The addition of a blind girl as one of the good guys is interesting, her trip past the bodies of her friends having a slight suspense value to it, but the rest of the cast are given one-dimensional roles. As for Janus Blythe, she doesn't get to face off with her family, instead taken out before the climax (although it is not made clear whether she was killed or simply knocked out).

Boba_Fett1138 Wes Craven's 1977 movie "The Hills Have Eyes" was a surprisingly great genre movie. When Craven needed cash he decided to make "The Hills Have Eyes Part II" in 1985. It's a rush job that is sloppy and lazy written and often feels and looks like a B-movie, with some bad pacing, ineffective build-up and lame characters and acting performance, also due to its writing.What this sequel mostly does wrong is relies too much on its first movie. It needlessly features same characters and actors from the first movie and the movie is filled with countless flashbacks of events that happened in the first movie. This is a real cheap way of film-making of course and quite annoying if you have already seen the first movie.It's not being very original on its own and it most importantly is ineffective as an horror movie. The way the overall story progresses just isn't that interesting and often too predictable. There is also too little happening and when there is something happening it isn't being very effective, due to its build-up and overall story.The movie has lots of characters in it, which you never really get to care about and you are just waiting for them to die. The movie is also basically the one killing after the other but none of them are really original or surprising enough to leave a lasting impression on the fans of the genre.No tension, no excitement, no originality. No reason to ever watch this movie really.4/10http://bobafett1138.blogspot.com/

Scarecrow-88 A group of motorcyclists, including Ruby(Janus Blythe),formerly a cannibal of the hills now reformed since leaving with the two survivors of the first film, get stranded out on the desert hills where two cannibals wreak havoc on them. The group find a compound that seems deserted, but a hidden room inside what appeared to be a refrigerator houses a place that might explain who is out there in the darkness causing so much terror. Blind Cass(Tamara Stafford)and others await the return of her boyfriend Roy(Kevin Spirtas, the hero hunting down Jason Voorhies in Friday THE 13TH THE NEW BLOOD)and Harry(Peter Frechette)who are chasing a cannibal survivor from the first film, Pluto(Michael Berryman)after he steals one of their motorbikes. This leads to both possibly being killed while the others having no idea of their condition. Slowly, each fall prey to a much more menacing cannibal, the dead Jupiter's larger brother, The Reaper(John Bloom)while Pluto tangles with Ruby and that blasted dog that messed him up the previous time, Beast. At night, things get really scary because those who await the return of their two men, believe they are playing a practical joke which is not unlike them(we see both several times pulling stunts on various characters). In the darkness, The Reaper and Pluto have a distinct advantage..how will a blind woman and her friends defend themselves in a place they have no knowledge of? The film is more of a slasher flick than the great original Craven effort. This one is VERY low budget, but doesn't pack the same punch as the brutal superior original. I felt this sequel resembles the Friday THE 13Th films, not just because of the familiar Harry Manfredini score, but the methods of the killers. Like those victims of Friday THE 13TH, those who are killed normally separate themselves from the group making themselves vulnerable to attack. The film has a dirt-poor grungy quality that hearkens back to the original film, but lacks bite. This one offers some flashbacks from Bobby, the male survivor & Ruby from the previous film..and the notorious one by the dog, Beast. I feel like this was intentional comedy on Craven's part that many just couldn't giggle at. I rather found it amusing. But, why a blind woman isn't killed immediately and instead allowed to last throughout the film(..and how The Reaper couldn't just escape a circle-of-fire at the end by jumping a little)is just too ridiculous to accept.

slayrrr666 "The Hills Have Eyes Part II" is nowhere near as bad as it's reputation seems to suggest.**SPOILERS**Trying to get over his fear of the desert, Bobby, (Robert Houston) agrees to go on a dirt-bike expedition with friends Roy, (Kevin Spirtas) Cass, (Tamara Stafford) Harry, (Peter Frechette) Rachel, (Janus Blythe) Hulk, (John Laughlin) Foster, (Willard E. Pugh) Jane, (Colleen Riley) and Sue, (Penny Johnson) and get lost on a side road. Searching an abandoned house, Pluto, (Michael Berryman) and Reaper, (John Bloom) attacks them and begins systematically killing them one by one. Gathering every ounce of strength they have as a group, they fight back against the murderous pair.The Good News: As one of the most maligned films in the genre, this wasn't expected to be all that good. The fact that its mostly just a carbon copy of the first isn't really that damaging, as it allows for a constant stream of action scenes throughout the film. The dirt-bike and ensuing foot chase through the mountains through various caverns is a wonderful action sequence. The large amount of suspense played out in the cavern sequence in the end was a great highlight, as the novel idea of having the main character in that sequence being blind was able to make some new ideas out of a clichéd experience. It's quite nice to see something that had been taken through all of the possible explorations, but then to add a great new gimmick that actually adds some suspense to the proceedings. It's quite nerve-wracking to see them wander through the situations unaware of what's out there and there's no way for it to change. The fact that it changes styles over the first one and becomes more of a stalk-and-slash film is a nice change of pace and adds a little more to the film. Overall, this wasn't as bas as some say.The Bad News: Even though it wasn't all that bad, there's still a couple things wrong. The plot is a virtual retread of the first one, and the situation to get them involved with the group is a step-by-step repeat of before. It really doesn't try anything new here, and instead goes mainly for new traps and more characters. That doesn't really make it all that different from the first one. The fact that it's so maligned is based mostly around that and it's cheese factor, which doesn't bode too well for most movies. This one tries to rise against it with a couple of great moments, but the fact that it's so cheesy and clichéd is the major source of complaint. I didn't have too many problems with this one.The Final Verdict: Far better than it's reputation will give it, but don't compare it to the original and it might be interesting. Take it on it's own merits, and you might find yourself enjoying it a lot more than you would.Rated R: Graphic Violence, Graphic Language, Brief Nudity and a very brief, mild sex scene