The Hills Have Eyes (2006) * * *

No desert road trip movie would be complete, in my opinion, without homicidal nuclear mutants.
(Really could nuclear mutants be anything but homicidal?)
In this 2006 remake, Alexandre Aja gives us grotesque deformities and scenes of blood-soaked violence the likes of which Wes Craven could only dream of back in '77. Instead of the originals savage inbred hillbillies, Aja opts for an irradiated freak show living on an old government test site. With the help of a local gas station owner, they lure unsuspecting victims off the main road to their doom.

I get the top bunk!

Mmmm, left-overs!

It's hard to get a good workout in the desert.

4th of July Mutant Style
My reaction to this film was pure old-school horror enjoyment. Simple plot, great make-up effects and buckets and buckets of movie blood. The Hills Have Eyes is a big slice of B-Movie Cheese and I mean that in the most positive sense possible.