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 sit in the desert and slowly die or send two of the men folk off in different directions and hope that one of them finds help. Everything is fine until dark when gruesome strangers show up and destroy a good percentage of the family, leaving the survivors out for bloody revenge upon the people who have done this to them.

This story becomes ultra violent and I don’t suggest it for the casual viewer. The hack and slash scenes are brought to life so well that I had to close my eyes a few times. The reason “Hills” really gets you is that you really like this little family and to see any of them…stabbed or shot is really painful to watch. But gives you the fuel to scream and chant for revenge along with the films heroes at the end. So…go get The Hills Have Eyes and Part 2. It’s a fun creepy gory watch. You’ll never want to drive across the desert into an abandoned nuclear test site ever again.

* Acting – 5
* Blood – 5
* Violence – 5
* Partying – 1
* Language – 4
* Humor – 1
* Predictability – 5
* Girls – 3
* Gore – 5
* Sexuality – 1
* Torture – 5
* Overall – 3