The hills have mutated rapists
Not just another pointless teen slasher
Ebbtide Staff
Iwas recently assigned by the Ebbtide to write a review on the new gore/horror flick called “The Hills Have Eyes.” To me this sounded merely like another pointless teen slasher with maybe a splash more of blood and gore than earlier films. I couldn't have been more wrong.
Opening with images of mutated limbs and digits belonging to those affected by the New Mexico Atom Bomb testing, the movie proceeded to the brutal killing of several scientists checking the area's radiation levels. The movie then goes on to a family traveling to San Diego on vacation. The family was composed of a pair of grandparents, their son and two daughters. One of the daughters, who was pregnant, also brought her husband and daughter along.
After a few run-ins with the mutated locals, comes a scene of despicable horror beyond belief. Keep in mind this movie was originally an xrated film that needed to be dimmed down quite a bit to be allowed into general theaters. The grandfather is captured by the locals and burned on a pyre in front of the family's trailer. As the family runs out to aid him the 16 year old daughter is pulled into the trailer by 2 of the attackers.
This scene vividly displays the young teen being violently raped by the first assailant then even more brutally by the second, and it was obvious she was a virgin by the stomach churning amount of blood gushing down her legs.
The scene continued as the pregnant daughter entered the trailer after hearing her younger sister's screams. She is then pulled to the floor next to her baby and forced to watch as the assailant holds a gun to her baby's head, helpless to aid her sister still being raped. When the grandmother enters she is immediately shot in the stomach followed by the eldest daughter.
The rapists leave the youngest sister with the promise of coming back for her and killing the rest of her remaining family while they take off into the desert with her niece. The rest of the movie was a brutal and blood slathered killing spree of vengeance and fear as they remaining family picks the assailants off one by one.
The only thing that kept me from walking out of this disgusting thing (I wouldn't even honor with the word “film”) was the need to write this article. Never before had I seen something so morally despicable with the purest of disregard for anything of actual substance or discretion. I think anyone who would create a thing like this and market it to teens deserves a swift kick in the balls. This “cutting edge” flick has succeeded in only diminishing my urge to see any more of the “new breed” of horror films.
All I can say to the piece of sh*t director Alexandre Aja who has to use a film someone else created to make a name for himself deserves to be locked in a prison for a bit and find out for himself just how much fun rape really is. The only good thing I can say about this film is how much it helped me see how sh*tty Hollywood has really become and how talentless most writers and directors really are. What I would suggest for the little Alex to do now is cram this piece of sh*t right back up his a** and leave it there, where it belongs.
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