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The Hills Have Eyes (1977)
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10.17.09

The Hills Have Eyes (1977) While traveling in a trailer through the desert to California, the retired detective Big Bob Carter stops in an isolated gas station with his family for fueling and rest. Bob is traveling with his wife Ethel, his son Bobby, his daughters Brenda and Lynn and his son-in-law and Lynn's husband Doug and their daughter baby Katy. When they leave the gas station, the owner advises Bob to stay in the main road. However, the stubborn driver takes a shortcut through a nuclear testing site and wrecks his station wagon. With the family stranded in the middle of nowhere, Bob and Doug walk on the road trying to find some help. Bob is captured by an insane and sadistic member of a deranged evil family that lives nearby the spot. Doug returns to the trailer, and along the night the Carter family is attacked by a group of psychotic cannibal criminals. Absolutely trapped by the murderers, they have to fight to survive.

Movie Tagline:
The lucky ones died first...

Also Known As:
Blood Relations
Wes Craven's The Hills Have Eyes

Title: Hills Have Eyes, The
Release Date: July 22, 1977
Runtime: 89 mins
Genre: Horror
All Genres: Horror, Thriller
Languages: English
Country: USA
Colors: Color
Sound: Mono
IMDB Rating: 6.4
Brimstone Pit Rating: 7.4 - (Rate This Horror Movie)
Category: Horror Movies Starting With H

MPAA Rating: R

Director(s):
Wes Craven

Cast:
Susan Lanier ...Brenda Carter
Robert Houston ...Bobby Carter
Martin Speer ...Doug Wood
Dee Wallace ...Lynne Wood
Russ Grieve ...Big Bob Carter
John Steadman ...Fred
James Whitworth ...Jupiter
Virginia Vincent ...Ethel Carter
Lance Gordon ...Mars
Michael Berryman ...Pluto
Janus Blythe ...Ruby
Cordy Clark ...Mama
Brenda Marinoff ...Katy
Peter Locke ...Mercury (as Arthur King)
Flora ...Beauty, the Carters' Dog
Striker ...The Beast, the Carters' Dog

Producer(s):
Peter Locke

Writer(s):
Wes Craven

Composer(s):
Don Peake




Trailer(s):
The Hills Have Eyes Horror Film Trailer 1

More Movie Taglines:
  • The lucky ones died first...
  • A nice American family. They didn't want to kill. But they didn't want to die.
  • They burned the father, killed the mother, and raped the sister!
Movie Quote(s):
  • Big Bob Carter: Do you always try to stop trespassers by hanging yourself?
  • Mars: Baby's fat. You fat... fat and juicy.
  • Ethel Carter: That's not my Bob!
  • Brenda Carter: We're gonna be french fries! Human french fries!
  • Ethel Carter: [while looking at a road map] We are not lost, we're right here somewhere on this little blue line. Lynne Wood: This road is not a blue line, it's a dotted line, if it's even on the map at all!
Movie Trivia:
  • Producer Peter Locke has a memorable cameo as Mercury, the imbecile-sounding gang member with the feathered head-dress who is only spotted twice throughout the film, firstly at Fred's garage and secondly communicating with Mars and Pluto using a USAF radio.
  • The dead dog used as a stand-in for the family's slaughtered Alsatian 'Beauty', widely believed to be a dummy dog, was in fact a real (already dead) dog that director Wes Craven and producer Peter Locke had bought from the county sheriff's department.
  • When originally submitted to the MPAA, the film was given an X-rating which would have relegated it to the porno circuit and severely hurt the box-office returns. Wes Craven cut the film enough to secure an R rating, and the original director's cut is thought to be no longer in existence.
  • The movie is based on the legend of Sawney Beane and his family (a wife, eight sons and six daughters), a feral clan who inhabited and roamed the highlands of Scotland's East Lothian County, near Edinburgh, in the early 1400s. They captured, tormented and ate several transients. They were eventually captured on the order of Scotland's King James, were judged to be insane, and executed without trial.
  • Many of the props in the feral family's cave were from Robert A. Burns's previous project, The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974).
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Keywords:
Desert, Cannibal, Blood, Dead Animal, Shot In The Chest  ...[more]


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