Armand's Catacombs - The Hills Have Eyes 2006

Horror aficionados will be delighted to know that the remake of The Hills Have Eyes is being produced by Wes Craven.

The remake of THE HILLS HAVE EYES will be released nationwide March 10, 2006. Click here to visit the fan site.

The story of a family road trip that goes terrifyingly awry when the travelers become stranded in a government atomic zone. Miles from nowhere, the Carters soon realize the seemingly uninhabited wasteland is actually the breeding ground of a blood-thirsty mutant family... and they are the prey. The lucky ones die first.....
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Wes Craven has been challenging audiences with his bold visions since the release of his first feature film, The Last House On The Left, which he wrote, directed, and edited in 1972.

Craven's most recent film is Red-Eye, a psychological thriller starring Rachel McAdams, Cillian Murphy, and Brian Cox for DreamWorks, SKG, which opened in August 2005. He is currently in production with longtime collaborator Marianne Maddalena on the remake of his second feature, The Hills Have Eyes, with Fox Searchlight and French filmmakers Alexandre Aja and Gregory Levasseur.

Alexandre Aja is a director to watch. At the beginning of what promises to be an incredible career, French filmmaker Alexandre Aja had already received great critical acclaim, including a Cannes Film Festival Golden Palm nomination, for his directorial and screenwriting debut Over the Rainbow.

2003 saw the release of Haute Tension (HIGH TENSION), which Aja helmed and co-wrote with his The Hills Have Eyes screenwriting partner Gregory Levasseur. HIGH TENSION starred Cécile De France, and was presented at the Toronto International Film Festival and Sundance Film Festival before it was released worldwide. HIGH TENSION went on to earn numerous international festival awards, including Best Director and Best Picture at the prestigious Sitges/Catalonian International Film Festival.

History of the Hills Have Eyes

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Bad Movie Planet review on the original Hills Have Eyes 1977

The Hills Have Eyes examines the nature of society, morality, and base human nature, but in a context all its own.
When Wes Craven first crafted a script based on the idea that nothing is sacred anymore, he had no idea that he was tapping into one of the most prevalent fears of that time. In 1977, The Hills Have Eyes took this fear and made it flesh; creating an iconic masterpiece that still resonates today.

"I researched quite a while on murder and mayhem in general, and ran across a story of a weird family which lived in Scotland in the 17th Century. They were cannibals living in a cave overlooking the ocean, and they would way-lay travelers between London and Edinburgh. The whole countryside got the reputation of being haunted because those that went in didn't tend to come out. Finally, a husband and wife were attacked on their way home, and the wife was grabbed, but the man escaped and saw the people. He went back to London and brought back help. They discovered a cave with this inbred family of about 25 people, and vats of human bodies pickled in sea water. This wild and crazy family was captured and dragged back to London, and executed in a most bizarre and uncivilized way. That was my inspiration for the family in HILLS." - Wes Craven

The fact that the Beane family's savagery was repaid with something ever more brutal by their 'civilized' captors sparked Craven to write his own tale, a tale of two families. The first was the Carters, a nice suburban family traveling across the desert en route to California. When their RV breaks down, they are attacked by their polar opposites: a clan of primitive, sociopathic cannibals led by the fearsome Papa Jupiter. After suffering some casualties, the Carters regroup and use the tools at hand to mount a vicious revenge. By the end, it is revealed that these two seemingly different families are very much alike on a dark, primal level. Both share the same feelings of love, honor and loyalty and both strongly adhere to their own moral code, although the concept of morality differs widely between the two.

"I was very much interested in that - the mirror images of the two families, a darker side and a lighter side. Each family had its own integrity, its own system of values. Even the villains cried when one of theirs died, and the other family, what we called the 'white bread family,' became more and more vicious." - Wes Craven
"In The Hills Have Eyes, I was examining the shadow side of the American family." -Wes Craven

"In that nut of a story was everything I thought about civilization, because on one hand you have this wildness that can just run rampant and prey upon the civilization, but then the civilization when they catch them is completely uncivilized itself and has its own macabre wildness to it." -Wes Craven

"The first monster that must frighten the audience in a horror film is the filmmaker himself."
-Wes Craven

Craven incorporated inspiration from current events and classic art to add another layer of depth to the story line. The intolerant, class driven anger that Jupiter and his clan feel toward the well off Carter family was inspired by the anger that third world countries often express towards the United States. Craven also drew inspiration from Greek and Roman mythological tales because these primal, violent stories often got at the basic human truths that he wanted to explore. One of his most unique inspirations came from a painting: Goya’s famous rendering of Cronos eating his children inspired the film's cannibal feast sequence.

The Hills Have Eyes was released in July of 1977. It did well in its first week, breaking attendance records at some theaters.
The Hills Have Eyes continued to play theatrically for years. In the 1980's, the film reached a new audience through television, cable and video rentals. It earned a new legion of fans in the process and even spawned a Wes Craven-helmed sequel, The Hills Have Eyes Part II .