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Hills Have Eyes [2 Discs]

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Released: 2003-09-23

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Hills Have Eyes [2 Discs] DVD Cast & Features Cast:
Flora, Susan Lanier, Robert Houston, Virginia Vincent, Russ Grieve, Dee Wallace, Martin Speer, Brenda Marinoff, Stricker, James Whitworth, Cordy Clark, Janus Blythe, Michael Berryman, Lance Gordon, Arthur King, John Steadman

Director(s): Wes Craven

Features:
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Widescreen presentation (1.85:1), enhanced for 16 x 9 TVs
Audio commentary with writer/director Wes Craven and producer Peter Locke
"Looking Back on The Hills Have Eyes": An all-new documentary featuring interviews with writer/director Wes Craven, producer Peter Locke, actors Micheal Berryman, Janus Blythe, Robert Houston, Susan Lanier, Dee Wallace, and director of photography Eric Saarinen
"The Directors: The Films of Wes Craven": A career retropective featuring interviews with director Wes Craven, and actors Courteney Cox-Arquette, David Arquette, Adrienne Barbeau, Neve Campbell, Robert Englund, Mitch Pileggi, Bill Pullman, Meryl Streep, Kristy Swanson, and Ray Wise
Alternate ending
Theatrical trailers
TV spots
Behind-the-scenes photos
Posters & advertising art
Original storyboard art
Wes Craven bio
DVD-ROM: Original screenplay and screensavers

Hills Have Eyes [2 Discs] DVD Details

Video:
Theatre Wide-Screen
Audio:
Dolby Digital Surround EX (simulated 6.1)
True 6.1 system. Rear center channel is separately encoded into the DTS soundtrack.
Dolby Digital Surround

Running Time: 89
Genre: Horror Sci-fi Fantasy
Item Weight: 2
UPC: 013131257793
Product Code: ANCH12577DVD
Format: DVD
Year:1977
Studio: Starz / Anchor Bay

Hills Have Eyes [2 Discs] DVD Summary Horror auteur Wes Craven followed his threadbare but horrifically compelling cult classic Last House on the Left with this wonderfully demented morality fable about a bloody war of attrition between two extremely different families.

The story opens on the journey of the Carters, a mildly dysfunctional extended family led by patriarch "Big Bob" Carter (Russ Grieve), as they travel across the California desert in search of an inherited silver mine.

When a broken axle leaves them stranded in the middle of a former nuclear testing site, their attempts to find help lead them unwittingly into the territory of a savage family of cave-dwelling cannibals, the apparent progeny of the bearlike Jupiter (James Whitworth) and an abducted prostitute.

Jupiter's eldest son Pluto (professional movie weirdo Michael Berryman) leads the first brutal attack on the defenseless Carters who, through necessity, are driven to equally extreme measures in order to survive.

Though the film is not overtly bloody, the scenes depicting this confrontation are rendered with an unflinching directness, and the violations visited on the Carters are so brutal as to make the survivors' regression into savagery all the more convincing.

No one is spared from the nightmare: Jupiter's boys have even kidnapped the youngest member of the Carter family -- a mere infant -- to serve as fodder for their next barbecue, and the baby becomes the main point of contention between the rival clans.

Craven nevertheless refuses to take the easy way out by depicting his "monsters" as soullessly evil; parallels between either family's "values" are clearly drawn as the differences between the two clans begin to blur.