![]() ![]() It's a tame and tired excuse for a sequel and deserves to spend the rest of its life in a Blockbuster's bargain bin. 'The Hills Have Eyes 2' is just a very lazy movie, devoid of any suspense, tension, or surprise, with not a single individual involved remotely interested in producing anything of quality. 'The Descent' (on which Sam McCurdy, coincidentally, also worked as cinematography) proved that even this most derivative of sequences can still be carried out with genuine originality and suspense, but we see no such innovation here. The latter half of the movie becomes just another tedious chased-through-dark-corridors scenario. They act in dumb and illogical ways, making dumb and illogical decisions that lead them to predictably dumb and illogical deaths. Needless to say, every character is a broad and generic cliché. With 'The Hills have Eyes 2', it's clear that video director Martin Weisz is no James Cameron, and the cast of television bit-parters haven't the talent or even the inclination to turn their cardboard cutout characters into anything approaching living, breathing human beings. He was also ably assisted by some genuinely talented actors. (written by) Cast (in credits order) complete, awaiting verification Produced by Music by Harry Manfredini Cinematography by David Lewis. In my mind, 'Aliens' was the only movie to successfully make such a transition, due to James Cameron's talent, not simply for directing the best action sequences around, but never forgetting that an audience has to care about the people being butchered. The Hills Have Eyes Part II (1984) Full Cast & Crew See agents for this cast & crew on IMDbPro Directed by Wes Craven Writing Credits Wes Craven. Soldiers are always so lazily written and never fail to thoroughly bore with crude caricatures of strutting macho bullshit. I always let out a groan of disappointment when a sequel replaces civilian characters with the military. It falls back on every hackneyed genre cliché in the book while offering absolutely nothing new to the desert mutant mythology. ![]() Jonathan Craven's screenplay could have been written in a weekend, and given the speed with which this movie made it into cinemas, probably was. ![]() 'The Hills have Eyes 2', released just a year after the original, seems a rushed and ill-conceived attempt to cash in on the franchise with little thought to quality. I was one of the few people who actually thought that it was better than the original and looked forward to a second visit to the particularly dark and cruel world of the savage desert mutants. Alexandre Aja allowed for an admirable degree of character development and when the violence started it was mean and savage and all carried out in a landscape of impeccable photography and production design. Last year's remake of 'The Hills Have Eyes' was one of the better attempts to update the vaguely exploitational horror flicks of the 1970s for a new audience. ![]()
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