Tuesday, May 5, 2009

The Hills Have Eyes (2006)

3 / 5
Tagline: The lucky ones die first.
Directed by: Alexandre Aja
Written by: Alexandre Aja, Gregory Levasseur
Actors include: Aaron Stanford, Kathleen Quinlan, Vinessa Shaw
Genre: Horror
Length: 107 minutes
Banned: nope
Country: USA

Review:
This is one of those remakes which somehow cheapens the original almost. It entirely loses that creepy dusty feeling by showing more of the monsterous family and trying to have them do and be more. They also tacked what felt like an hour on the ending which totally didn't need to happen. It's rather rare when I'm hoping against hope that a film will end, but this did happen here. I truly do wonder why they remade it at all since the original is so spectacular and didn't need to be remade. It's got some parts right, and I still like the concept of the stranded family in the desert alone with these weirdos but this update is a definite no no. It's like they tryed to spice it up for the video game generation and hopefully it gets folks to watch the original but other than that I don't see much of a point here.

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