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Post by Eλευθερί on Oct 29, 2020 9:31:06 GMT
Wes Craven
4/10
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Post by James on Oct 29, 2020 21:09:13 GMT
8/10. I dug it. Very grim and raw backwoods flick with intimidating villains.
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Post by Vits on Oct 29, 2020 21:27:24 GMT
THE HILLS HAVE EYES 1977 4/10 THE HILLS HAVE EYES PART II 1984 1/10 THE HILLS HAVE EYES 1977 (about a family named CARTER who's being terrorized by cannibals in the Nevada desert) wasn't as scary as it could've been due to its low budget; THE HILLS HAVE EYES 2006 (about a family named CARTER who's being terrorized by mutants in the Nevada desert) squanders its big budget by not even trying to be scary. At least not in the traditional sense. The cinematography doesn't generate the right atmosphere and the gore is excessive. Luckily, this remake has better actors and, unlike the original, it has likeable characters (this version of BOBBY CARTER explains why he didn't tell his parents that he found their dog dead, and it makes sense) and a real ending (finishing on a cliffhanger isn't the same as finishing the moment the climax ends). 4/10 THE HILLS HAVE EYES PART II 2007 0/10 ------------------------------------- You can read comments of other movies in my blog. |
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Post by Prime etc. on Oct 29, 2020 21:36:54 GMT
Original 7/10
Remake 7/10
I saw the remake first and liked it--however when I saw the original, I realized they copied just about every damn dramatic element from the original!
I liked the addition of the mutant in the chair who gets killed by the police dog. But so much was borrowed, I am giving it a 7 mainly for production values.
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Post by Eλευθερί on Oct 29, 2020 23:01:26 GMT
Was this film a direct rip-off of Race With The Devil? (or Race With The Devil plus Deliverance)
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Post by Eλευθερί on Oct 30, 2020 15:39:36 GMT
Was this film a direct rip-off of Race With The Devil? (or Race With The Devil plus Deliverance) That is an interesting comparison, but Race With The Devil is a supernatural paranoia action thriller and doesn't really relate to the goings on in here. A touch of Deliverance perhaps though. Race With The Devil was not supernatural, except in the minds of some of the participants. If you pare them down to their cores, both stories are about white-bread families vacationing in their motorhomes in the middle of nowhere being terrorized by deviants into whose terrain they tread. Race With The Devil is a better film because of the way it uses paranoia, though. And a large part of the second half of the film involves the car chase (too much, I would argue), whereas there is no car chase in Hills at all.
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Post by FridayOnElmStreet on Oct 30, 2020 22:06:28 GMT
6/10
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Post by quagsjonny on Nov 2, 2020 7:16:25 GMT
7/10. After TCM, before Halloween. A hidden gem, most are only aware of the remake.
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Post by quagsjonny on Nov 2, 2020 7:23:09 GMT
Not to misdirect from the thread. I agree with the RWTD discussion. 'Last House on the Left' had chainsaw duels. I love the film, but Hills is better. 7/10 firm
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Post by Prime etc. on Nov 2, 2020 8:08:02 GMT
You could say the "that's not my Bob" scene is matched with the "You killed my little dog!" scene in RWTD.
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Post by moviemouth on Nov 21, 2020 15:17:41 GMT
4.5/10
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Post by moviemouth on Nov 21, 2020 15:24:31 GMT
8/10, raw, gritty, atmospheric and original 70's horror film that utilizes its desert setting to the max. The remake is too familiar, overtly graphic and overdone. Both versions are very well cast though, with the exception of Bobby in the 06' version. He just needs to be slapped. For me the original is cheesy and boring. Bad acting, bad pacing, not scary, not suspenseful and I didn't care at all if any of the characters survived. I don't find it raw, gritty or atmospheric in a good way. It is trying for this realistic feel, but for me it fails at almost every turn. The remake is one of the scariest and most intense horror movies I have seen and I like that they changed the villains to generations of people who were mutated by nuclear testing (who are also inbred I am assuming). The attack in the trailer is one of the most viscerally horrific scenes I have ever watched.
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Post by moviemouth on Nov 22, 2020 10:12:36 GMT
For me the original is cheesy and boring. Bad acting, bad pacing, not scary, not suspenseful and I didn't care at all if any of the characters survived. I don't find it raw, gritty or atmospheric in a good way. It is trying for this realistic feel, but for me it fails at almost every turn. The remake is one of the scariest and most intense horror movies I have seen and I like that they changed the villains to generations of people who were mutated by nuclear testing (who are also inbred I am assuming). The attack in the trailer is one of the most viscerally horrific scenes I have ever watched. It is very much a product of the late 70's, but for me, it really delivers the goods in that context too. It was controversial and anything with Dee Wallace is a keeper for me. I thought Craven made maximum impact with minimum budget and in a very skillful way. I also don't like the Moroccan desert setting in the reboot either, which is passing for the US. I am not dissing on the remake, as I do like it, I just prefer the acting dynamic in the original.
Have you seen Last House On The Left - 09' reeboot?
I don't like either version of Last House on the Left, but I like the original better. I like the first half of the remake, but the second half doesn't land at all for me and the head in the microwave at the very end is really stupid imo. I didn't notice it wasn't a U.S. desert in The Hills Have Eyes remake and I am from the U.S. 
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Post by moviemouth on Nov 22, 2020 10:27:34 GMT
I don't like either version of Last House on the Left, but I like the original better. I like the first half of the remake, but the second half doesn't land at all for me and the head in the microwave at the very end is really stupid imo. I didn't notice it wasn't a U.S. desert in The Hills Have Eyes remake and I am from the U.S. Yes, the microwave bit shits me as well, but overall, I really think they did a good job with the reboot. That one was filmed in South Africa.
I went into Hills remake knowing it was filmed in Morocco and since I loved the desert setting in the original, I was making too many conscious comparisons.
The reason the original is interesting is because it is basically a grindhouse horror remake of The Virgin Spring. If the first half of the remake and the second half of the original were mixed together and you removed the slapstick police stuff then I might like it. You know how picky I am with horror movies though. 
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Post by moviemouth on Nov 22, 2020 10:39:23 GMT
The reason the original is interesting is because it is basically a grindhouse horror remake of The Virgin Spring. If the first half of the remake and the second half of the original were mixed together and you removed the slapstick police stuff then I might like it. You know how picky I am with horror movies though. I have only seen Craven's original a couple of times. The last time I watched the reboot of House was only about mid year. I just don't get why they went down the ott microwave scene part. Is this a homage to the first perhaps, I don't recall? I don't recall a microwave scene being in the original. I think the second half of the original just captures a raw terror that the second half of the remake fails to do. The first half of the remake is quite disturbing and intense though. I think my familiarity of the actors playing the family members sort of works against it too
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Post by movielover on Mar 27, 2022 14:21:53 GMT
7/10
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Post by sjg on Jan 20, 2024 9:27:55 GMT
4/10
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