This low-budget horror film reminds a lot of Deliverance and it's also one of director Wes Craven's finest. It's a shocking, brutal movie about ordinary people being assaulted by a family of mutants. It doesn't have the class of Deliverance, but instead is the movie's rawness and cruelty that make it so fresh and vivid even after more than twenty years since its original release. Director Wes Craven shows like no one ever did that he is master-skilled in sustaining the suspense and tension during the whole running time. Although not very gory for today's standards, The Hills Have Eyes carries sadistic and gruesome scenes, like rape, a man being teared apart by a dog, and lots of blood.The experience is so realistic that you feel sorry by those common people being menaced by crazed mountain men. This is not a film for persons with week stomach.
Review of The Hills Have Eyes
