The Hills Have Eyes II (2007)

Director:

Martin Weisz

Writers (WGA):

Wes Craven (written by) &
Jonathan Craven (written by) ...

Release Date:

23 March 2007 (USA)

Genre:

Adventure | Horror | Thriller

Tagline:

The Lucky ones die fast

Plot:

A group of National Guard trainees find themselves battling against a vicious group of mutants on their last day of training in the desert.

Plot Keywords:

Desert | Mutant | Hill | Fight | Sledgehammer

Cast

Michael McMillian	...	Napoleon
Jessica Stroup	...	Amber
Jacob Vargas	...	Crank
Flex Alexander	...	Sarge
Lee Thompson Young	...	Delmar
Daniella Alonso	...	Missy
Eric Edelstein	...	Spitter
Reshad Strik	...	Mickey
Ben Crowley	...	Stump
Michael Bailey Smith	...	Papa Hades
Derek Mears	...	Chameleon
David Reynolds	...	Hansel
Jeff Kober	...	Redding
Jay Acovone	...	Wilson
Philip Pavel	...	Foster

Also Known As:

The Hills Have Eyes 2 (Australia)
El despertar del diablo 2 (Argentina) (DVD title) (Venezuela) [es]
Aima stous lofous 2 (Greece) (DVD title) [el]
Brda imaju oci 2 (Croatia) [hr]
El despertar del diablo II (Mexico) [es]
El retorno de los malditos (Spain) [es]
La colline a des yeux 2 (France) [fr]
Le colline hanno gli occhi 2 (Italy) [it]
Le visage de la peur 2 (Canada: French title) [fr]
Mägedel on silmad 2 (Estonia) [et]
O Retorno dos Malditos (Brazil) [pt]
Tepenin gözleri 2 (Turkey: Turkish title) [tr]
The Hills Have Eyes 2 (Germany) [de]

MPAA:

Rated R for prolonged sequences of strong gruesome horror violence and gore, a rape and language.

Runtime:

89 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Sound Mix:

SDDS | Dolby Digital | DTS

Certification:

USA:R | Ireland:18 | UK:18 | Australia:R | Germany:18 | Singapore:R21 | Iceland:18 | Malaysia:18SG | Italy:VM14 | Netherlands:16 | France:-16 | Philippines:R-18 (MTRCB) | Norway:18 | Argentina:16 | New Zealand:R18 | Finland:K-18 (self applied) | New Zealand:R16 | Japan:R-18 | Canada:16+ (Quebec) | Portugal:M/16 | USA:Unrated

Filming Locations:

Morocco

Company:

Fox Atomic

Trivia:

The mine shafts were created by the same team who are responsible for the caves in Brit horror The Descent (2005).

Goofs:

Continuity: Missy gets caught by one mutant while she's having a leak. Yet when she is lifted by the mutant and carried away her pants are up and not down as they should have been if she didn't wanted to soil them. This is even clearer to be seen when she is then shortly after laid down in the room inside the mine. We then there see that her pants are not even up, but that even her belt is buckled/tied. It would be very doubtful the mutant picked his time rearranging her pants while dragging her along.

Quotes:

[first title card]
Title Card: Two years ago an American family crossing the desert took a wrong turn and drove deep into a military area known only as Sector 16. By dawn the next day, half the family had been slaughtered.

Movie Connections:

References First Blood (1982)

Soundtrack:

Own Little World (Remorse Code Remix)

Less exciting and violent than Aja's remake,but still pretty watchable.

An area of desolate New Mexico desert known as Sector 16 has become a testing site for the U.S. military,and a group of National Guard trainees are sent in to deliver supplies.Once arrived,the unit discovers an empty camp and decide to wander around and investigate until deformed mutants pop out of the hills to slaughter the intruders.Alexander Aja's remake of Wes Craven's 1977 horror classic was exciting and gruesomely violent.This is not the case with "The Hills Have Eyes II".The film offers plenty of gore and violence,unfortunately it lacks foreboding atmosphere of dread,suspense,personality and realistic,sympathetic characters who were developed beyond average slasher movie fodder.There is a little bit of terror and quite nasty rape scene,but the characters are cardboard and one-dimensional.Still the film is much better than extremely horrible "The Hills Have Eyes II" made by Craven in 1985.My generous rating:7 out of 10.