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Director: Wes Craven
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From Time Out Film Guide
A baby cries, granddaddy is crucified, cannibals with CB radios stalk a land where even the hills have eyes. Somewhere in the desert a clean WASP family of six are stranded; there are murmurs of atomic tests, and at the local gas station, an old man talks of a monster mutant son he abandoned in the wilds. To little avail: the Carters are besieged in their trailer and the nightmare begins. The baby is kidnapped (for supper), half the family die. From there, it's a question of the 'civilised' family acquiring the same cunning as their cannibal counterparts in a fight to the death. Parallel families, Lassie-style pet dogs who turn hunter-killers, savage Nature: exploitation themes are used to maximum effect, and despite occasional errors (the cannibal girl who protects the 'human' baby), the sense of pace never errs. A heady mix of ironic allegory and seat-edge tension.Author: CA
Cast & crew
Director: Wes Craven
Producer: Peter Locke
Cast: John Steadman, Janus Blythe, Arthur King, Russ Grieve, Virginia Vincent, Susan Lanier, Dee Wallace, Robert Houston full cast
Genre(s): Horror
Duration: 90 mins
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