its still very much worth the watch. even thou the rape scence bothered me I saw it again. rent see what u think.

B+


Well, I saw it a while ago, but it's about time I give my review. To be honest, I think I don't should read the reviews of horror buffs like myself before seeing it because after Zing's, makeshift's (etc.) raves, I found the movie to be ultimately overhyped a bit. This is not to say that it was bad or even mediocre. It was a very fine horror movie that had a lot of balls, but it was not flawless.

Alexander Aja does the build-up very well. The movie takes its time to come to the real action (the very beginning, however, is very effective). The characters are estabilished pretty well with Aaron Stanford's Doug certainly being the best. The problem with the thing is that the long build-up sadly makes the real "horror events" seem a bit short once they kick in. I am certainly anticipating the unrated edition of this one. The movie is not boring, but it just left me with a tad of disappointment as far as the horror scenes go. What we got to see was great, but I felt it could have used some more of it.

Now, after so much discussion, I feel the need to address the rape scene as well. It is in there, I would not even debate that. But it is just implied. Strongly, implied, yes, but you do not get to see anything even closely explicit. I am fine with that. I do find it disturbing, indeed. But then again, this is why I go to horror movies. They are supposed to scare/horrify/disturb us and this one does it well. I have no complaints about that whatsoever.

The gore amount in the movie is good, but nothing I haven't seen before. I actually even felt, they could have pushed it further (and considering there was an NC-17 version, I am sure they did). Acting-wise, Aaron Stanford was the only stand-out. I wouldn't have even recognized him as Pyro if I didn't know it beforehand. What I rally, really liked about the movie is that the hero in this one gets a great, great share of beating before he can accomplish something heroic. He doesn't get to get away with a few bruises and cuts, yet he always stands up and continues fighting back desperately. That worked very well.

The film itself wasn't scary at all, but this kind of a horror movie is not supposed to be really scary anyway, it sets out to be disturbing and it achieves that. The trailer scene is not as breathtaking as some describe it, but certainly very intense. There are some logic flaws in this movie, but I can easily look past them in horror movies. Maybe the only cliché that bothered me was that "good mutant girl". Just seemed so...clichéd (?) and a bit of a cop-out in some scenes.

Overall, Aja has done his homework well and delivered a very worthy remake. The characters are well-developed, the gore and the blood are presents, the feeling of grittiness is there and the movie is pretty sickening at some points. I just with the actual horror-action part of the movie was a bit longer and got a little bit more twisted stuff in it. Still, a very good effort.

Jesus Christ!! This movie is seriously fucked up, yet so freaking brilliant


Now, this is disturbing not like shitty Hostel

A

Such a long thread for such an insignificant movie...

Isn't that something or what??

It is definitely something, but I'm not sure what...

Insignificant to whom, exactly?

From the same guy who complained when the Narnia (a movie that was average, at best) thread was unstickied...

Okay, okay - ya caught me. It's the best movie of the year, nay - the decade! It will change the way film making will be thought about for a generation. I'm still thinking about the finer points of the finely wrought plot of this magnificent work of art. Simply out, a masterpiece for the ages!!!

Um, for which movie??? Narnia or this one??

Insignificant movie????

76% of the people who have seen it on this site graded it A or B.

I'm happy you all enjoyed it, I'm just parodying the usual drubbing I get for enjoying my low comedies...

B+

Thoroughly impressed with HILLS. Need the weekend to reflect on my review.

BKB your a retard, seriously.

Wow, color me seriously impressed. I hated Aje's last film, but this time he knocked it out of the ballpark. It's my favorite film of the year so far. My only complaints were mainly "if the film could've been done my way" quibbles concerning the last act. I was expecting a holdout inside the van, and a lot less music that sounded like it was from an epic Civil War film. Still, it's fucking excellent. A-

B, surprisngly good with lots of gore.

Watched the Unrated version and the film is still impressive on a second viewing. The music by tomandandy is seriously unnerving as all get out and the acting is far better than usual for the genre (Dan Byrd and Aaron Stanford are especially excellent). Aja clearly knows how to disturb with his films. Even though he's not directing next year's sequel I'm still looking forward to it as the plot sounds decently different (National Guard troop is besieged by the mutants). I wonder how many shots at Bush and/or Iraq they'll fit in to a plot having to do with the military.

B

It's a great horror ride, but no masterpiece. I thought the strongest aspect of the film was the direction and style actually, how he filmed these deaths and brutal kills. The way the film was made, how everything was brought on to the screen, was fantastic. Yes, the amazing death sequences were definitley the highlight, with all the impaling, slicing, chopping, spilling.

But other than the way it looked, it didn't strike me as anything new or special to the genre. Family takes a wrong turn, family runs into some hillbillies, family gets raped and killed, some survivors manage to escape. Also, the characters weren't any developed at all, they're the stereotypical victims, you don't really care for these people. The mutants' story isn't followed through with as well, all what we get is a snapshot of some newspaper prints.

So, it's worthwhile to see for some sweet gore and kills, but not much more.

Well I liked it, probably the best horror movie of 06 so far, I havent seen Slither.

I feel that it did borrow a lot from Dawn of the Dead and TCM remakes, with its gritty style. I liked it a lot but I thought the acting was horrible, expecially from Ted Levine. I mean, he was probably the dumbest cop I've seen in a while. It had good buildup and it was very disturbing the scene mentioned above is very very hard to watch and is really very Fucked up. So I liked it a lot, more than the original, but I dont think its the most brutal thing I've ever seen, maybe the one scene is in the top 10 though.

B+

Probably one of the most creepy, gory and just plain weird horror films I've ever seen. Very disturbing, I give it a solid B!

Uh, so, this is a really good movie. It freaked me out, and I am never freaked out by horror movies.

A-

Just saw it last night, it was decent. I had my problems with it, lets not even get into the non existent storyline of these mutated hillbillies, theres plenty scenes of nothing happening where we could've easily been given an explanation or backround on them, also at some points these things seem pretty clever and smart and at other times incredibly stupid, well whatever im not here for a deep story or logic.

There really was about 15 straight minutes of grusome horrific violence that really made the film, but at the sametime it also was the last time we would add a number to the death count of the main characters because we wouldnt be seeing anymore deaths from there on out even though the movie was FAR from over. The movie was shot well and I loved that old school music in the backround, it really felt like an homage to old school horror films, which I liked. When the movie started going it didnt really slow down much, enjoyed the horror scenes and the look of the film, wish we didnt have everyone who was gonna die, die at once though and maybe some more menacing mutated hillbillies, some were just goofy looking ( hell I couldnt even tell if one was just some homeless guy living in the desert or one of those mutated things )

BTW the rape scene, very subtle, didnt come across incredibly vile or unneeded.

Grade - B-

I don't get it.

This isn't "cool." This isn't "AWESOME, man! GORE!"

This is disgusting.

And it's one of the worst films I've seen in a long time, maybe in a few years.

Er... yeah.

I mean, sure, its well shot I guess but... come on. I think I literally had my mouth open when about 3/4 of the family got killed...

Atrocious, and ridiculous.

No surprise there, guys, heh. You just don't like horror movies that are not of psychological nature