The film seesaws ineptly between stale horror clichés, ludicrously excessive gore, and political allegory.

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

In this early Wes Craven movie, mutant humans creatively slaughter and cannibalize an all-American family camping-out in their RV in the middle of the

Wes Craven’s infamous schlocker was an exercise in pop culture-crashing perversity.

Read the Empire Movie review of The Hills Have Eyes. Important, but it echoes a better film - The Texas Chainsaw Massacre. ...

Wes Craven's blood-and-bone frightener about an all-American family at the mercy of cannibal mutants is a satisfying piece of pulp.