Wes Craven’s The Hills Have Eyes Part 2 is a bland, bloodless shambles. Sequel-making of the laziest sort, it’s nothing more than a perfunctory, undisguised cash-grab.
It’s dull, formula terror pic cliches, with one attractive teenager after another picked off by the surviving cannibals.
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Miami HeraldBill Cosford
Miami HeraldBill Cosford
Those looking to Craven for a new spin on an overworked genre are entitled to feel disappointed. [03 Sep 1984, p.B4]
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TV Guide Magazine
TV Guide Magazine
It's hard to believe that the same man who wrote and directed one of the best horror films of the 1970s, The Hills Have Eyes, could have pulled the same duty on the sequel and come up with a film as shockingly bad as this.