• Film

The Hills Have Eyes

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Time Out says

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.

Release Details

  • Duration:90 mins

Cast and crew

  • Director:Wes Craven
  • Screenwriter:Wes Craven
  • Cast:
    • John Steadman
    • Janus Blythe
    • Arthur King
    • Russ Grieve
    • Virginia Vincent
    • Susan Lanier
    • Dee Wallace
    • Robert Houston
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