The Hills Have Eyes (2006)

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The Hills Have Eyes and its sequel are two of my favorite slasher/horror films. And believe me the originals are just as fantastic. But this remake is pretty amazing and amazingly scary.

The Carter's decide to take a family vacation. It's been ages since they had one, so the whole "fam" takes off in a bit of a caravan consisting of one Winnebago and a truck. The family consists of Mom, Ethel (Kathleen Quinlan), Dad, Big Bob (Ted Levine), Sister #1, Brenda (Emilie de Ravin), Brother, Bobby (Dan Byrd), Sister #2, Lynn (Vinessa Shaw) with new born baby and new husband Doug (Aaron Stanford) in tow. With roll call out of the way the family's trek across the desert has begun. But like any man on the road with a mission Big Bob decides to go off map and take a short cut, where, you guessed it, their caravan is stranded with a bunch of flat tires.

Our clan is left to make a decision to either ...

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