bladesofchaos One of the best terror filled movies of all time!!!!

zachary_a_erickson-26701 This is probably one of the worst horror movies out there. It was bad enough that there was a remake, and even worse, that there's a sequel to the remake! This is movie is crap. Do not watch it.

Scarecrow-88 A group of inept National Guard soldiers (soldiers, used loosely), made up of kids almost right out of high school, are commissioned to a New Mexico desert after their commander in charge informs them of a deliverance of supplies to a scientific outpost. This desert just so happens to be where atomic testing was done, and there are still mutant inbred cannibal killers in them there hills. The film (a sequel and basic follow up to Alexander Aja's remake to Wes Craven's film from '77) is essentially soldiers (..snicker, snicker…) versus those grotesque atomic anomalies that wield weapons made from the environment. Sometimes the soldiers are dangerous to each other inadvertently (their commanding officer is shot during gunfire aimed at the mutants), but their inexperience (we see a training exercise exploit their fundamental inefficiencies in combat) doesn't help them, either. The mutants, with their cavernous hideouts and hideaways, are only a detriment to themselves, as well, often succumbing to their brute violent whims in trying to attack the soldiers who have guns at their disposal. Too much time is spent inside the hills, where it can be quite dark and cramped. Good practical effects and gore helps, I guess, but the film isn't as shocking as Aja's prior film or as much a gut punch in terms of those killed this go-around (a family unit is obliterated while the sequel offers a rag-tag bunch of kids not yet ready for the combat they are faced against). The bit with the victim found in a latrine is certainly not expected, though. A rape does exist against one of the tougher female soldiers (her development is that she looks often at a recording on her phone of her boy), which might be difficult to watch. Jessica Stroup looks out of place as the other female soldier among the group, while Lee Thompson Young (the young man who committed suicide while on the show Rizzoli & Isles) is the unfortunate token African-American of the cast who, despite her integrity and leadership skills, doesn't fare well. Michael McMillian has this inexplicable part as someone you wouldn't expect to see in the army…debates with his commanding officer and seemingly not fit to carry a gun (and generally annoying everyone) doesn't help his cause. Jacob Vargas is the hothead ready to shoot first and ask questions later. Amazingly, I expected more to die but the film offers the proposition that at least three survived (and not the candidates among the soldiers that seemed battle ready, perhaps a reason of irony). Surprisingly, Wes and his son put together the story for this rather average and forgettable horror show, which seems fit to be Wrong Turn 14. Morocco has never looked quite so intimidating, though.I think there's a sense that the Cravens were using the mutants to symbolize the unpredictable nature of battle in a place that very well might resemble Afghanistan or Iraq.

Jeffery Larrison Honestly, the re-make of the 2nd hills have eyes was pretty much the same thing as the first hills have eyes re-make. It definitely had it's moments. It definitely needed more work though. On the other hand though, it did have those ouch moments when something that looks so painful to watch. Beginning was retarded as hell. Obviously, the plot to the whole entire movie was also retarded as f***. Again, another thing that really annoyed was the fact that the director of course made everyone mutants again when during the original ones, they were perfectly normal looking. In my opinion, this is definitely not worth watching. So if you do decide to watch this one, I suggest watching Craven's version first then watch the re-makes.