The Hills Have Eyes Part II

1984
R
1h 26m

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3.8/10

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Michael Berryman and John Bloom in The Hills Have Eyes Part II (1984)

A group of bikers, heading to a race, become stranded in the desert and find themselves fighting off a family of inbred cannibals who live off the land.

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A group of bikers, heading to a race, become stranded in the desert and find themselves fighting off a family of inbred cannibals who live off the land.A group of bikers, heading to a race, become stranded in the desert and find themselves fighting off a family of inbred cannibals who live off the land.A group of bikers, heading to a race, become stranded in the desert and find themselves fighting off a family of inbred cannibals who live off the land.

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IMDb RATING

3.8/10

7.6K

YOUR RATING

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Ethel Carter
(archive footage)

James Whitworth

Jupiter
(archive footage)

Susan Lanier

Brenda
(archive footage)

Tamara Stafford

Cass

Kevin Spirtas

Roy
(as Kevin Blair)

John Laughlin

Hulk

Willard E. Pugh

Foster
(as Willard Pugh)

Peter Frechette

Harry

Colleen Riley

Jane

Penny Johnson Jerald

Sue
(as Penny Johnson)

Janus Blythe

Rachel…

Lance Gordon

Mars
(archive footage)

Brenda Marinoff

Katy
(archive footage)

Martin Speer

Doug
(archive footage)

Edith Fellows

Mrs. Wilson

Arden Roger Meyer

Man With Towel

Director
- Wes Craven
Writer
- Wes Craven
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Trivia
Though it was released after A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984), The Hills Have Eyes Part 2 was shot before A Nightmare on Elm Street went into production. Writer-director Wes Craven has claimed that only about two thirds of the movie was shot before the studio halted production due to budget concerns. When A Nightmare on Elm Street became a box office success, the studio convinced Craven to finish Hills Have Eyes Part 2 using only the footage that had already been shot. Since there was not enough for a feature length film, footage from the first The Hills Have Eyes (1977) was edited in to pad out the running time. Wes Craven has since disowned the movie.

Goofs
(at around 1h 5 mins) Ruby says that The Reaper is Papa Jupiter's big brother, but in The Hills Have Eyes (1977), Otis (Jupiter's father) explained that Jupiter only had an older sister who later died in a house fire that Jupiter set.

Quotes
[his only line]
The Reaper: Reaper no dumb like Papa Jupe!

Connections
Edited from The Hills Have Eyes (1977)

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"...the hills still have eyes."

The Hills Have Eyes Part II is Wes Craven's less than great follow-up to the brutal original. The first film is damn near terrifying in parts. This one is slightly goofy and unbelievable. The flashbacks are my main problem with the film. Everyone has flashbacks. Every single character from the original has flashbacks, the freakin' dog even has flashbacks. If you're watching The Hills Have Eyes Part II, you almost have to be a fan. I think we're all familiar with the first one. If you're not, then you shouldn't be viewing it. Any reality or spontaneity is also gone. You know who is going to die right away. The cast is decent though. Michael Berryman, Robert Houston, and Janus Blythe all return. Kevin Blair from Friday the 13th Part 7 and Peter Frechette from The Kindred play moto-cros bikers while Nicholas Worth plays the voice of the Reaper. And can anyone tell me where the Reaper was hiding in the first film? If you didn't enjoy the first Hills Have Eyes, you aint gonna like this one.

Note for genre buffs: Kane Hodder is listed as a stuntman.