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NEW Hills Have Eyes 2 (DVD)

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Alot of people don't like this film, but most who don't like it also don't care for the origional. That being said I am a huge fan of the origional Craven film and i really enjoy this sequal. We get cool deaths, more development of the characters and the storyline, plus it picks up where the origional left off which is always a plus. Get this one now.

Dear Wes Craven fan

please, note the important index in the title : it's part II , not the classical slasher .....above this , although this is presented as a movie of Wes Craven,it has to be forgotten ...definitively....eventually ,even scrapped out of his filmography.

Wes Craven's The Hills Have Eyes was undoubtadly one of his best films, and this lesser known sequel saw the light of day in 1985 after being on the shelf for nearly a year. This film is loaded with flashbacks of the original film (by Robert Houston, making a return from the first film, as well as the family dog, and I'm not kidding there) as a group of dirt bikers break down in the desert and are stalked and hunted for dinner by a mysteriously ressurected Pluto (Michael Berryman) and his crew. Hills Have Eyes 2 isn't scary one bit, and looks more like a cheap re-make of the original film. Craven had a lot of trauma effecting his personal life when this was filmed, so that can be excusable to a point for this waste. Fans of The Hills Have Eyes should leave this in the dust.

If you are a die hard fan of Wes Craven and his movies by THHEp2 DVD! Has a lot of flash back scenes even the dog has a flash back! This time a group of motocrosser's venture out to race. The remaining cannibals stalk them. Pretty good. But THHEp1 was better.

If you haven't seen The hill's have eyes, do not bother to check on thsi one. This sequel is as bad as the worst day of your life. The movie is filled with very dumb flashback (scenes taken from the first movie) that have to explain a movie that does make any sense.
He even brought back to life michael berryman's character, wich in the first movie was creepy and morbid, now is so clumsy and dumb that is not even funny. This is by the way, wes craven's weakest entry. look for the first one, a pretty good exploitation classic!!!! but this one is very very lame!

There's a scene [well, scenes] where all of the remaining central characters are having flashbacks, one by one we see a minds-eye view of that characters experience. After the humans are done the camera pans to the annoying dog that's along for the ride and whaddaya know, he has a flashback to share as well. Yes you read right, THE DOG HAS A FLASHBACK. If that scene doesn't send you off the couch and rolling across the floor in a fit of laughter then brother, check your pulse! A five star scene in a two star film, I'll average it at 3 for the bald dude.

This is in my opinion one of Wes Craven's worst films, but even having said that, it still makes for a pretty fun watch. The story hear is basically the same except that now, we have a dirtbike racing team to take the place of the family in the first film. When the racing teams bus break's down, hell ensues, as Pluto and the newly introduced "reaper" indulge in some gruesome killing.

The dvd itself is nowhere near the quality I would have liked. The picture is overly grainy, and I noticed a "shimmer", for lack of a better word, throughout the course of the fim. All in all the picture quality is that of an old vhs rental copy. I would not recommend purchasing this dvd unless you are like me and are a die-hard "The hills have eyes" fan.

I enjoy this movie, but the first was far better. The DVD released by Image is subpar in terms of quality. It contains a trailer and scene selection and that's it. But it's the picture and sound quality which is disappointing. The picture is highly pixilated (DVD encoding problem?) and the sound badly needed a remastering update. Still, it's better than a VHS copy, but just barely.

First things first, being the Wes Craven fan that I am I was proud to see Hills 2 come out on DVD, but where's the original? Don't get me wrong, I really enjoy this one too, but it's like part one has fallen off the face of the earth. The plot of this one is similar to part one(you even get good flashbacks to help you along) but to me Hills 2 is more action packed. Rather than having a family in a travel trailer being stranded, you have a bunch of hellraising friends on a bus(along with some awesome dirtbikes and alot af racing fuel) that seem to put up a better fight against "The Family". Thumbs up on the death scenes too! This is a classic 80's slasher flick that is well worth seeing, and for you Craven fans it's worth adding to your collection.

When the first "Hills Have Eyes" came to my local drive in I was 18 or so. I went by myself in my VW and saw half of it. I left when the mutants stole the family's baby and were carrying it through the woods mumbling "mmm...tender baby....mmmm" and were going to cook and eat it. That was all I could take. It freaked me out. The film was already unpleasant and very disturbing but this scene ended it for me. I have never seen it since and don't care to. I watched part of this sequel on cable and couldn't finish it either but for a different reason...it was just plain AWFUL! Stupid to the extreme and poor on all counts. The first one was at least upsetting enough to bother me...so it must have worked on a terror level. But "Eyes 2" was ridiculous. I cannot recommend this at all. But if nerve wracking cruelty is your bag then see the first one. It's not really a horror movie at all ----it's just plain SICK.