The Hills Have Eyes [1977] (DVD)

With this and the Nightmare on Elm Street series, Director Wes Craven set himself up as one of American horror's most talented exports. Playing on typical human fears and insecurites, Craven manages to purvey a sense of dread in his viewer like no other, which is again seen here in this bloody offering from 1978. The story starts out pleasant enough. The Carters are a typical middle-class family of suburbanites preparing for their annual holiday across to California. Their are the two parents, their oldest daughter and her husband and baby, their two other children and their two dogs. They set out in their mobile home across the desert and all is fine until ...

A family are heading off on an enjoyable camping holiday somewhere in the American countryside, they are driving along when suddenly a rabbit runs out in front of the car, they serve to miss it and end up crashing the car so badly that they won?t be able to drive it. With no garages or even houses in sight they head off to find some help, what they find instead is a bunch of strange red necks that just also happen to be cannibals, fun and laughter ensures, while I wonder why they just didn't run over the rabbit in the first place. Wes Craven?s follow up to the equally bad Last House on the Left, is a slight improvement, while Last House on the Left was ...

Worrying film this one. If you have ever travelled around the middle of nowhere alone, you can appreciate how this film was conceived. Set the scene, large camper (all Americans seem to have at least one each) a breakdown in the middle of a dessert road, noone around and there are deranged psychopaths watching you and picking you off one by one. But, the American family is a resourceful one when cornered in a camper by psychos and fight their way out! Dad doesn't make it though and ends up nailed to a tree and set alight which is a bit grim. It is a very wierd film. I don't know his name but there is one actor whose features are a little ...