| The Hills Have Eyes | |
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| Directed by | Wes Craven |
| Produced by | Pete Locke |
| Written by | Wes Craven |
| Starring | Susan Lanier Robert Houston Martin Speer Dee Wallace-Stone Russ Grieve |
| Music by | Don Peake |
| Cinematography | Eric Saarinen |
| Editing by | Wes Craven |
| Distributed by | Vanguard |
| Release date(s) | July 22, 1977 |
| Running time | 89 min. |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $230,000 (estimated) |
| Gross revenue | $25,000,000 |
| Followed by | The Hills Have Eyes Part II |
The Hills Have Eyes is a 1977 American horror film, directed by Wes Craven and starring Susan Lanier, Michael Berryman, and Dee Wallace-Stone. It is about a family on a road journey who become stranded in the California desert, and are hunted by a clan of deformed cannibals in the surrounding hills. It was released in cinemas on July 22, 1977, and has since become a "cult classic".
The film was remade in 2006 by French horror filmmaker Alexandre Aja.
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The film begins with an old man named Fred, packing his truck and drinking alcohol, as though worried. He frequently glances at the arid landscape around him, and makes continual comments about "them" and what "they" would do to him if they ever found out he was escaping. Suddenly, a ragged and somewhat feral ragamuffin girl turns up, wearing a tattered skirt and blouse. Annoyed, Fred addresses her as Ruby. She offers to trade what she has in her bag for food and the old man refuses.
They move into a small cabin and Fred scolds her for what she and "they" have done. Ruby says that her family ambushed a nearby airfield because they were hungry: no one passes by their home anymore. She then pleads with Fred to take her with him. He mocks her and laughs in her face. He tells her she could never live with normal people: "You don't know a knife and fork from your own five fingers; and you stink like a horse." Ruby continues to beg and Fred continues to refuse. He demands whether "the pack" knows what she is doing, and also if someone named Jupiter knows. He warns her of the danger she is in if Jupiter ever knew, and she retorts that her "pa" would do the same to Fred if he knew he was getting away. A noise distracts them and Ruby hides.
A family of five, Bob and Ethel Carter, and their kids Bobby, Brenda and Lynne are traveling on vacation. Accompanying them are Lynne's husband Doug and their daughter Katy. They stop at Fred's Oasis, where Fred tells them to stay on the main road. Later, they skid off a desert road and crash their station wagon (in what is revealed to be a booby-trapped road). Bob leaves Bobby a pistol and goes to find help.
It turns out that a vicious family of deranged cannibals dwell in the barren wilderness through which the Carters are traveling. They are commanded by Papa Jupiter, the patriarch of the clan. He was born a monster and killed his mother at childbirth. As a child he was vicious and brutal, killing all the livestock on his father's farm, then eventually murdering his sister. His father Fred, the owner of the gasoline station, eventually reached breaking point, attacking his son with a tire iron and leaving him in the wilderness to die. However, he survived, and kidnapped and began living with a depraved, alcoholic prostitute known as Mama. Together they had four children, three sons (Mars, Pluto and Mercury) and one daughter (Ruby). Now they are wild in the desert, stealing from, killing and cannibalizing all who cross their path.
As night begins, Bob is attacked by Fred at the gas station and Fred tells him the origin of the hill people, Papa Jupiter then beats Fred to death with a crowbar. Bob is taken to be burned by Papa Jupiter (who also steals Bob's gun). Doug and Lynne go inside the family car while everyone else stays in the large camper. Bobby gets locked out and asks Doug for his set of keys. What Bobby does not know is that a strange man, Pluto (who has siphoned fuel from the car), is inside the trailer looking at their valuables while Ethel and Brenda are asleep in the next room. Bobby gets the keys and goes inside, when Bob is set ablaze on a stake out in the distance.
Ethel, Lynne, Doug, and Bobby rush to Bob, while Brenda is left inside with the strange man. Everyone tries to help extinguish the fire, while Pluto rapes Brenda. Mars jumps down from the top of the trailer, and he goes inside. He pulls Pluto away and rapes Brenda in turn. Although the family extinguishes the fire, Bob dies shortly after. When Ethel and Lynne go inside to get water, Pluto jumps out and runs away. Lynne rushes inside to find Mars taking her baby. She attacks Mars, but he subdues her. Ethel steps in with a broom. She hits Mars repeatedly but is shot in the stomach. Brenda throws Lynne a knife. Lynne grabs it, stabs Mars in the leg, but is shot in the stomach twice. Pluto comes back and takes the baby, while Mars follows. Doug then comes rushing in, finding out that Lynne is dead. They cover her with a blanket, Ethel dies shortly thereafter.
Only Brenda, Bobby, and Doug survive. Doug sets out to find his baby, while Bobby and Brenda remain behind, traumatized. Meanwhile, Beauty, one of the Carters' two dogs, has been savaged by the clan and Ruby is being made to eat it as punishment. She is chained outside the cave where the clan live, and Mama torments her. The men return, but for Mercury the outlook is grave. He was pushed from a hilltop by the Carters' other dog, Beast, and died on the sharp rocks. Enraged, Jupiter threatens Ruby and vows to avenge his son's death. Jupiter and Pluto hurry back to the trailer the next day and vow to kill the remainder of the Carter family.
Doug, meanwhile, spies on the savages' camp. Ruby purposefully takes the baby higher into the hills (after knocking out her mother), being followed by Mars. Doug catches up with Ruby and the baby. Meanwhile, Pluto and Jupiter are on their way to the trailer to kill the rest of the Carter family but Pluto is attacked on the way by Beast. Papa runs to the trailer where a trap has been set for him, however it fails. Another trap is set, which blows him and the trailer up. Bobby goes into the wreckage "To be sure" and is attacked by Papa. Brenda hits him twice with a hatchet and Bobby shoots him.
Mars follows Doug and Ruby into the hills and is eventually stabbed to death by Doug, saving the baby. The film ends with a closeup of Doug, who is still stabbing and kicking the dead body of Mars, as Ruby weeps over the death of her brother.
The film did reasonably well in its initial release and today enjoys a large "cult" following.[1] Craven made a sequel in 1985, which he later disowned.[2] His son, Jonathan Craven made a sequel during 1995. Alexandre Aja made a remake in 2006.
The film was ranked #41 on Bravo's 100 Scariest Movie Moments.
The film was given an X rating by the MPAA and several of the most graphic moments were edited for an "R" rating. The cut footage is believed to be lost, though the alternative 'happy' ending turned up on the 2003 Anchor Bay DVD.
The film was conceived as a modern retelling of the Sawney Bean story. In the script, titled Blood Relations: The Sun War, the clan consisted of dozens of incestuous family members, similar to the Sawney Bean family that inspired the story. In addition, the film was set in 1994, took place in a forest, rather than a desert, and most of the major cannibals (such as Mars, Pluto, and Mercury) were adolescents. The baby was stolen not for food, but for a perverted religious ritual.
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