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The Hills Have Eyes is a 1977 horror film directed by Wes Craven that stars Michael Berryman. The film was supposedly inspired by the Scottish legend of the "Sawney" Bean family.

The film tells the story of a vacationing upper-middle-class nuclear family which stumbles into the middle of the badlands in the American midwest. Stranded there, they are set upon by a family of inbred cannibals, who proceed to rape, murder, and mutilate the family members, until the survivors strike back in bloody fashion.

Borrowing from, and expanding on, the cannibalism scene in Jean-Luc Godard's Week End
from 1967, this film attempts to be a follow-up of sorts to Craven's earlier film Last House on the Left from 1972. It expands on the themes that Craven introduced in that film regarding the traditional nuclear family being threatened by a corrupted version of itself, which attempts to destroy the traditional family.

Today, the film enjoys a large cult following.

Taglines:

The lucky ones died first...

A nice American family. They didn't want to kill. But they didn't want to die.

There is also a remake written and directed by Alexandre Aja.

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Movies - The Hills Have Eyes

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