I have never seen the 70's original but I really liked this movie. I was trying to find a nice scary horror that had undertones of realism in it and this provided that. In other movies you see all these people faced with horrific circumstances and...
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I have never seen the 70's original but I really liked this movie. I was trying to find a nice scary horror that had undertones of realism in it and this provided that. In other movies you see all these people faced with horrific circumstances and coming out a hero and while that is nice sometimes not everyone would fare that well in real life.

What this movie provided was multiple levels of reaction and emotion in the face of tragedy. Doug driven by a sense of vengance and desperation to get his baby back, Bobby trying to make his (dead) father proud by being the protecter to his sister and Brenda Who is histerical and traumatized by not only her family's death but also at being raped by mutants. The main thing though that I think differs this from other slasher movies is that this isn't some creepy psyco picking them off one by one in a way that leaves you wondering if killers in real life would ever actually be this patient, It is rather a group of desperate, albeit insane, mutants waging a single all out attack and then the rest of the movie is spent dealing with the aftermath.

This makes the movie more real, which in turn makes it much more powerfull and scary and it gets top marks from me.

good remake much better then the original really bloody and gory and pretty scary to but I dont see it as a movie I would watch it all the time again like in alot of movies the bad guys are like super powered they are just mutants

"A boring, hopeless and unintelligent remake."

Not having seen the original 'Hills Have Eyes', I really don't have much to work with here, but one thing that I do know is, this was a bad film. The plot and some of the...
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"A boring, hopeless and unintelligent remake."

Not having seen the original 'Hills Have Eyes', I really don't have much to work with here, but one thing that I do know is, this was a bad film. The plot and some of the characters were just unbelievable.

Now I don't love remakes. I'm just not a huge fan. Remaking something should only occur when the original film would be extremely interesting to watch modernized or if it wasn't very good as a film and needed some repairs - the upcoming 'Friday the 13th' remake is a good example of this. I'm not totally against them though - I found the 2003 remake of the 1974 classic, 'The Texas Chain Saw Massacre', very interesting and superbly filmed. This film right here is a classic example of a modernized, dumb Hollywood horror remake that fails to really bring anything new to the table. The acting is very bad, and the whole film just drags on and on. I really did not enjoy this film at all, and I certainly do not recommend it.

This movie is a vast improvement on the original. The story line was solid for a horror flick and the gore was plentiful. This movie was very exciting and had some really grotesque mutants. As someone already made mention, the victims fought...
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This movie is a vast improvement on the original. The story line was solid for a horror flick and the gore was plentiful. This movie was very exciting and had some really grotesque mutants. As someone already made mention, the victims fought back and actually defended themselves. If you like horror movies you will like this one.