The Hills Have Eyes
On the way to California, a family has the misfortune to have their car break down in an area closed to the public, and inhabited by violent savages ready to attack.
- Director: Alexandre Aja
- Genre:Horror / Thriller
- Runtime:108 minutes
Cast
Aaron Stanford : Doug Bukowski
Kathleen Quinlan: Ethel Carter
Vinessa Shaw : Lynn Carter
Emilie de Ravin : Brenda Carter
Dan Byrd : Bobby Carter
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The film begins with an old man named Fred, packing his truck and drinking alcohol, as though worried. He frequently glances at the arid landscape around him, and makes continual comments about “them” and what “they” would do to him if they ever found out he was escaping. Suddenly, a ragged and somewhat feral ragamuffin girl turns up, wearing a tattered skirt and blouse. Annoyed, Fred addresses her as Ruby. She offers to trade what she has in her bag for food and the old man refuses.
They move into a small cabin and Fred scolds her for what she and “they” have done. Ruby says that her family ambushed a nearby airfield because they were hungry: no one passes by their home anymore. She then pleads with Fred to take her with him. He mocks her and laughs in her face. He tells her she could never live with normal people: “You don’t know a knife and fork from your own five fingers; and you stink like a horse.” Ruby continues to beg and Fred continues to refuse. He demands whether “the pack” knows what she is doing, and also if someone named Jupiter knows. He warns her of the danger she is in if Jupiter ever knew, and she retorts that her “pa” would do the same to Fred if he knew he was getting away. A noise distracts them and Ruby hides.
A family of five, Bob and Ethel Carter, and their kids Bobby, Brenda and Lynne are traveling on vacation. Accompanying them are Lynne’s husband Doug and their daughter Katy. They stop at Fred’s Oasis, where Fred tells them to stay on the main road. Later, they skid off a desert road and crash their station wagon (in what is revealed to be a booby-trapped road). Bob leaves Bobby a pistol and goes to find help.
It turns out that a vicious family of deranged cannibals dwell in the barren wilderness through which the Carters are traveling. They are commanded by Papa Jupiter, the patriarch of the clan. He was born a monster and killed his mother at childbirth. As a child he was vicious and brutal, killing all the livestock on his father’s farm, then eventually murdering his sister. His father Fred, the owner of the gasoline station, eventually reached breaking point, attacking his son with a tire iron and leaving him in the wilderness to die. However, he survived, and kidnapped and began living with a depraved, alcoholic prostitute known as Mama. Together they had four children, three sons (Mars, Pluto and Mercury) and one daughter (Ruby). Now they are wild in the desert, stealing from, killing and cannibalizing all who cross their path. Read more
