A film with more than the usual spoiler issues. Talking about it in any detail feels akin to handing you a gift-wrapped present and saying, "I hope you like it -- It's a thriller about a diabolical secret experiment."

I enjoyed watching this film and would recommend other to give it a try , (as I am) but this movie, although enjoyable to watch due to the better than average acting fails to add anything new to its storyline that is all too familiar to these types of movies.

Let me be very fair here, this is not the best movie in my opinion. But, this movie is fun, it has purpose and is very enjoyable to watch.

A terrific literary drama and character piece that shows how the process of creating art can be seen differently by those doing it and those looking at it from the outside.

Years after the massacre of the Carter family by the cannibals in the Air Force gunnery range, Bobby Carter has now married Ruby, the cannibal girl who saved him. She now calls herself Rachel & together the couple run a Yamaha dirt bike dealership. Rachel decides to go along with a team of professional dirt bike riders to a competition, which takes them deep into the territory where Rachel's family used to roam. But what she doesn't know is that one of her brothers, Pluto, has survived & together with an uncle named Reaper are still active in the area. When their bus breaks down in the desert area, the team are picked off one by one by the cannibals. The Hills Have Eyes was Wes Craven's second film & his first real classic – a brutal survivalist tale where two families took on each other for survival in a brutal battle. In the same year as his greatest work, the original A Nightmare on Elm Street, Craven decided to mount a sequel to Hills. Not that it left the door open for one – Craven had to retcon some details in order to 'revive' Michael Berryman's character Pluto & create an entirely new character in the Reaper. The only other members to make a return are Robert Houston (who only appears in some early scenes) & Janus Blythe, the cannibal girl now civilised adult.While the original was a minor classic & an important part of Wes Craven's career (the director would later mount a remake & a further sequel to it), this sequel is a far cry from the brutal intensity of the original. This time out, Craven treats the setup in a more slasher-like fashion (slasher films were the rage then), without any of the intelligence that he demonstrated in the original. The film moves with the pace of your average Friday the 13th sequel & even with a similar score, courtesy of that franchise's musical hack Harry Manfredini. The killings are no longer brutally visceral but standard slasher stalk-&-slash. The addition of a blind girl as one of the good guys is interesting, her trip past the bodies of her friends having a slight suspense value to it, but the rest of the cast are given one-dimensional roles. As for Janus Blythe, she doesn't get to face off with her family, instead taken out before the climax (although it is not made clear whether she was killed or simply knocked out).

The Hills Have Eyes Part II (1984)* (out of 4)Ill-advised sequel to Wes Craven's masterpiece has a dirt bike squad going out into the desert and of course they run into the cannibal family (led by Michael Berryman). Along with the group is a survival (Janus Blythe) from the first film and now she is faced with re- living her horrors.THE HILLS HAVE EYES PART II was made because Wes Craven needed the money but the project was pretty much put on the shelf only to be dusted off after the success of A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET. Craven agreed to go back and complete the film with what footage he had, which meant using clips from the first picture to expand the running time. He has since disowned the picture as has most of his fans. In all honesty, it's rather shocking to see how poorly made this movie is. It's easy to see why there were some production problems as it really does seem that no one is all that interested in the product. I'm going to lay the majority of the blame on Craven because this is perhaps the worst directed film of his career. There's just no life or energy to be found in the film and many of the scenes just drag on as if it was rehearsal hour at a high school. The lack of any real style for the majority of the picture is just something you wouldn't expect from a Wes Craven movie.The screenplay itself is somewhat of a mess as it has a lot more to do with Friday THE 13TH than the original film. It should also be worth mentioning that Harry Manfredini did the music score for this and it sound exactly like the 1980 film, which is something he did quite often. Not only does this look like that slasher classic but it also sounds like it! That just adds to the overall cheapness as do the death scenes that are mostly forgettable, although I'm sure the lack of money probably played into this.The performances are pretty much what you'd expect from a film like this but not even Berryman or Blythe could do much with their roles. THE HILLS HAVE EYES PART II also suffers from one of the worst moments in horror film history when a dog has a flashback to the events from the first film!?!?!?!? That alone makes this film deserve its notorious reputation.man who did the score for Friday the 13th also does the score here but he pretty much rips ever cord to the F13 score. The final thirty minutes of this also rips F13 pretty badly but what really kills this is the very poor direction from Craven. Having some of the most annoying characters in any horror film doesn't help matters either.

Craven promised an interesting career in the Horror genre with The Last House on the Left and The Hills Have Eyes during the 1970's. He made rough, hardcore, groundbreaking grindhouse cinema – regardless if they're good films or not they were unique and opened doors for a great director. Unfortunately throughout the 20th Century Craven went on and off from horror to comedy, to drama to thriller and so on but what I never knew about was his sequel to the original The Hills Have Eyes; reading up on The Hills Have Eyes Part 2 I came across an article stating Craven made the film for some extra cash. Well, I'm not surprised.Craven poured his heart, soul and love into the original movie The Hills Have Eyes –hate it or love it, it is evident Craven put effort into it; did he with this sequel? No. Here you can see talented film makers, writers and actors putting in laughably weak efforts with a cruddy script, paper thin characters, an obscure and ill fitting Friday the 13th-esque score/vibe, silly special effects and overwhelming mountains of unintelligence. For an example; every character has a flashback within the first twenty minutes of the film and to make the movie more inept than it already is, even a dog has a flashback! This movie is a flashback extravaganza! The acting is irritating to the extent where it is painfully unbearable. One character is blind though you won't know it until she actually says so as she is so poorly written and unconvincingly acted. There is also a scene where she is running through a cabin, note: a cabin she has never been to in her whole life yet she runs through the house as though it is her very own home – blindness can mean second sight with senses perhaps, but not the way this movie does it; it just looks silly, as I said, its poorly written. Do not expect Michael Berryman to have slurred words, a speech impediment and borderline brain damage as you see here in this film he speaks quite fluently and walks like an average person; was this the Pluto we saw in the original film? Nope. If you're looking for any incestuous, inbred, radioactively mutated hill killer like the first film this is certainly not the place to look for it; especially when the mutants in this film can drive motorcycles (stylishly so). This film has no character development, bad acting and a story copied and pasted from the first and slasher formulated – this is Friday the 13th mixed with The Hills Have Eyes. For 1985 I guess that is where the money came in.Something that really irritated me (amongst everything else) was this spontaneous introduction of Reaper. Who is he? Where did he come from? Sure, the hillbilly father in the original film could have kept something from Big Bob Carter and not told him of his other mutant offspring but it's just...illogical, especially when Reaper is so unintentionally funny. Also, whatever happened to the other characters from the first film? What happened to Brenda, Doug or the mama mutant or any of the other surviving mutants? Not only the lack of character explanations but these new characters are simply put; murder dolls – as I said, this is Friday the 13th though the only problem in saying that is that these teenagers don't have sex, smoke drugs, drink alcohol, be naked – nothing. They're so unbelievably boring and they don't even have the classic slasher teen formula going for them – what a waste.The film has cheesy special effects (just look at the cover) and the script is the exact same as the first. This movie isn't even entertaining – it's just painfully awful. You see it is films like The Hills Have Eyes Part 2 is why horror is very overlooked and under-rated as a genre. The non-horror viewing public slander horror films as predictable, cheesy and stupid however there are a lot of horror films out there that prove such a statement false – though The Hills Have Eyes part 2 not only encourages the "all horror movies are dumb" idea but takes it ten steps further. This movie has no soul and that's where I question Wes Craven as a director. It has one too many Friday the 13th elements to it and it's so unbelievably bad – but not in a good way like Troll 2 or Manos: The Hands of Fate. For me, Craven is a hit-or-miss film maker but when you read up that he needed quick cash then you should be well aware of what you're in for; The Hills Have Eyes Part 2 is it.

A motocross team backed by Tommy, who has invented a super fuel that will change the way of racing, must trek across the desert to compete in a competition. However Tommy gets cold feet and Rachel (aka Ruby) decides that she will take the team. While, travelling on the bus they find out that they're going to be late and so they decide (by a vote off) to take a detour and get themselves stranded after damaging the bus on the beaten track. Unknowingly to them someone is watching them and waiting for their chance to pounce.Okay, so after reading and hearing how BAD this flick is. I was reasonably surprised by it. I was expecting an atrocity, but what I got here was nothing more than a rancid slasher vehicle that has more in common with the 80s slasher gruel. That's not to say I didn't find it insipid, but by its reputation I expected far worst, but its just another routine (that I found curiously fascinating) sequel trying to cash on the original with a few amusing sequences. What made the original a successful package, just didn't translate here. It's not as brutal, aggressive and intense, while the adrenaline levels are very meek and it lacks that rough edge. Everything about it is uninspired, but there are a few random moments and ridiculous situations. Like oh it's pointless flashback time! Poor Bobby… poor Ruby and even the superstar of a dog Beast chimes in. Why? Well, to remind just how better the original is compared with this junk. It's simply a retread of the original with the family being replaced by retarded teens and to up the suspense, one of them just happens to be blind.Wes Craven wrote and directed this lumbering mess and you could easily tell the creative juices were at an all time low. The most effective scenes occur when it has the blind girl unknowingly stumbling across her dead friends. Some of the cast decided to hang around for the sequel. The favourite of the cannibal clan, Pluto (who healed up very well) played by Michael Berryman adds a lot the flick. Janus Blythe who was Ruby returns to take on her dwindling family and for a couple minutes at the beginning Robert Houston reprises his role as Bobby. Oh and not forgetting Beast! The rest of the pesky cast were either annoying fools or simply plain meat for the chopping board. On the other hand, Tamara Stafford was acceptable. John Bloom is an eccentric comic brute (no, goose) in the part of Papa Jupiter's older brother, The Reaper. While, Craven's mind numbing material (especially the script) and direction left a lot to be desired. There was effective location photography put to good use by capturing the impressively foreboding backdrop. Everything else is so-so or below par like the music score, uneven pacing, cut-away deaths with big casualty list, goofy stunt work (where the cannibals seem to lay the smack down) and a dead-weight story with full of "come again moments?" and a very merry conclusion.A terribly soulless low-grade sequel by Craven that I found oddly amusing.