Christina Reviews *The Hills Have Eyes*

         A family goes on an RV trip and end up trapped in a desert.  What follows is the kind of thing that happens any time a group of people are trapped in a desert with no cell phone reception.  Things go a little awry.

         There is a family of mutants living in the desert.  They are deformed as a result of the nuclear testing base not too far from where the RV broke down.  And these aren’t your normal, everyday mutants either.  These are mutant killers!

         There were some really disturbing scenes in this movie.  I won’t go into detail because I don’t want to spoil anything, but suffice it to say that this is not for the faint of heart.  Rape, murder, animal torture and baby snatching.  Is there no end to the horror?

         I really liked this movie much more than the original, and I think that’s because it took place in modern times, and so I could relate to the characters better.  I have to say, though, that the character development of the mutants was better in the original.   They were given more of a storyline in the first movie.

         I have this crazy theory that none of the horrifying events in the remake actually happened and that it was all part of some kind of coma-induced nightmare.  The son is knocked out while searching for his dog, and it's after he regains consciousness that things go wrong.  I could go into that a little more and how the movie seems to have a bit of a Freudian edge to it (one of the characters even makes a crack about the mother's Freudian obsession with snakes), but there I go overanalyzing things that are really quite simple.