When I was growing up in Brooklyn, it was my father’s job to bring home movies every now and then that we could enjoy as a family. This was most certainly "family time," but my father didn’t exactly bring home good, wholesome family movies. Never would we see a white bread comedy with goofy slapstick pratfalls and fart humor. Oh no. My father stuck to one theme in particular. It was the end of the world or the world was a wasteland, and there were three key things everyone wanted: 1. Women 2. Gas 3. Water. Sometimes, the movie was ambitious and to my chagrin the characters sought all three! The Hills Have Eyes 2 hearkens to those rosy days of my youth. The mutants are back, defending their wasteland home... and I’ll let you guess which commodity is in short supply.
With a brief nod to the first film remake, Hills 2 is off and running with a very simple
storyline. Those merry pranksters in the US Military are well aware of what lies in them-thar-hills, but they send in a team to monitor the region anyway. If the scientists had only gotten their cameras positioned a little faster, they’d have some fantastic footage to send to whatever the current incarnation of Bloopers and Practical Jokes may be. Everyone knows, dismemberment = com-o-dey! When members of the tech team go missing, those same jokers send in a farm fresh team of GAP model army reservists who can’t even complete training exercises without getting each other blown to fictitious bits. It’s like throwing a two-year-old a hand grenade and saying, "Let’s watch!"
Before you can say "horny mutant", the irradiated cave dwellers start making themselves known like smelly ninjas, snatching weapons, gear, and the occasional unlucky soldier without so much as a grunt to signal they were there. Many an inappropriate laugh will be shared as limbs are launched skyward, bodies explode on impact, and the mutants do their best to slay with a snaggle-toothed grin on their faces. I guess service with a smile still means something somewhere in America. At any rate, that is your whole plot. Soldiers go into the hills, mutants are in the hills, let’s get it on.
Article comments
1 - Eric Berlin
Great stuff, Nomad. Reminds me of when I was a kid, my step-dad took the family to see When A Stranger Calls. I think I was about seven years old at the time, became a family legend that one it did!
2 - Elf
Speaking abou this remake stuff, what about the original Hills Have Eyes Series? Do any of you remember it? The 1977: Hills Have Eyes, followed by the 1985 sequel: The Hills Have Eyes Part II and the 1995 sequel: Mind Ripper/The Hills Have Eyes III? I think there are people out there who are forgetting about these films, and only a few to know about them. Now, I haven't seen the original, and just the last 10 minutes of the first sequel, or the third film. Now, I haven't seen the 2007 sequel to the remake, but for those who did, is The Hills Have Eyes 2 some sort in some areas a remake of The Hills Have Eyes Part II? I just want to know.
3 - Elf
Speaking about this remake stuff, what about the original Hills Have Eyes series? Do you remember it? The 1977: The Hills Have Eyes, followed by the 1985 sequel: The Hills Have Eyes Part II, and the 1995 sequel: Mind Ripper/The Hills Have Eyes III? I think they're are alot of people out there who are forgetting about these films and only a few people that still know about them. Now, I haven't seen the original, and only the last 10 minutes of the first sequel, nor have I seen the third film either. Now, I haven't seen the 2007 sequel, to the remake, but for those who did, I just want to know something. Is The Hills Have Eyes 2 some sort of a remake of The Hills Have Eyes Part II? I just want to know.
4 - steph thomas
o love this film it is so thrilling and is something good to watch wiht the friends xx
5 - SHABIR
CRANK ACTED WELL