One Paragraph Movie Review: The Hills Have Eyes

Two hundred and thirtieth film: The Hills Have Eyes, an early Wes Craven siege-horror film with a low budget and a couple of explosions. All the action takes place in two American desert locations because sets are expensive but, if its hysterical characters are anything to go by, screams are free. Despite the interestingness of its premise –blonde California-bound family gets stranded in the middle of nowhere at the mercy of a violent and cannibalistic murder family dressed in leftover scraps from at least two different caveman movies — it’s surprisingly uninteresting. The hills may have eyes but they certainly do not have a script editor. Monumentally corny with its class themes as heavy-handed as its wigs, Wes Craven got a lot better at scaring people interestingly sometime after making this monotone scribble. Mind you, it has more than one dog in it. At the beginning. Two uneaten babies out of five.