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The Hills Have Eyes 2 movie storyline. The sequel to the 2006 horror remake, “The Hills Have Eyes,” which grossed over $41 million at the domestic box office, is written by horror legend Wes Craven and Jonathan Craven and will be directed by Martin Weisz. The storyline follows a group of young National Guard trainees who are attacked by mutants during a training mission in the New Mexico desert.
What started with the Carter family, clearly didn’t end with the Carter family. The Yuma Flats Training and Testing Facility in New Mexico is big. Sixteen hundred square miles of forbidding desert and mountains used by the U.S. military to test everything from weapons to men. It’s there that our central characters, National Guard soldiers barely halfway through their basic training are given a routine mission that will change their lives forever.
They’re ordered to deliver a piece of equipment to a group of scientists working in a remote and highly secret area of the facility known only as Sector 16. When they arrive at the isolated research camp, however, they find it is mysteriously deserted. After spotting what seems to be a distress signal flashing from the mountain that looms above them, their sergeant decides to take them all on a search and rescue mission, for surely this is a signal from the missing scientists. Who else could possibly be up there?
Unfortunately, some very nasty people, that’s who. The fact is that our kids are smack in the middle of the very hills where ill-fated Carter family found itself attacked by a tribe of cannibalistic mutants lying in wait for them. When the surviving Carter’s told the tale of their ordeal, the U.S. military performed a “robust” search-and-rescue mission that supposedly got rid of these monsters forever. But they were mistaken. The toughest and smartest of the Hills people simply retreated deep into of the old deserted mines that riddle the area. And waited. Until it all blew over. Until the government went away and left them alone to practice what they do best. Attack. Kill. Eat. And that time has come.
Our young guardsmen and women are inadvertently sent straight into the monsters’ lair. The cannibalistic leader, their ruthless patriarch, is Hades. The worst of the worst, intent on leading his pack in a lethal rampage. He’s fuelled by insatiable hunger and a passion for revenge, but there’s something even worse that he’s up to. He wants to capture the two females of our squad so they can be used as breeders. The Hills people have been driven to the brink of extinction – Hades needs a baby to continue his family line!
The Hills Have Eyes is a 2006 American horror film and remake of Wes Craven’s 1977 film of the same name. It was written by filmmaking partners Alexandre Aja and Grégory Levasseur of the French horror film Haute Tension, and directed by Aja. The film follows a family that is targeted by a group of murderous mutants after their car breaks down in the desert.
The film was released theatrically in the United States and United Kingdom on March 10, 2006. It earned $15.5 million in its opening weekend in the U.S., where it was originally rated NC-17 for strong gruesome violence, but was later edited down to an R-rating. An unrated DVD version was released on June 20, 2006. A sequel, The Hills Have Eyes 2, was released in theaters March 23, 2007.
The Hills Have Eyes was a commercial success, playing in total 2,521 theaters and taking in its opening weekend $15,708,512. The film grossed $41,778,863 in the United States Box Office and $70,000,000 worldwide, surpassing its budget costs by over fourfold. The film placed third at the box office during its opening week. It dropped to fifth after its second week of release, and to eighth after its third week. It fell out of the Top 10 into twelfth place after four weeks in release. After five weeks, it placed seventeenth at the box office, and it fell out of the Top 20 into twenty-first place after its sixth week. It continued to fall in subsequent weeks.
About the Production
In the annals of modern fear, few films have had as deep an impact as Wes Craven’s 1977 cult classic The Hills Have Eyes. The landmark tale, reinterpreted in 2005 by sizzling hot “Splat Pack” filmmakers Alexandre Aja and Gregory Levasseur, delighted and terrified a new generation of fans with its blood-soaked, horrifying update. In addition to box-office success, kudos came from the critics with The San Francisco Chronicle corroborating, “If studios insist on remaking classis horror films, this is definitely the way to do it… The Hills Have Eyes is a BLAST!”
Thus, with the public demanding more, film legend Wes Craven teamed up with his son Jonathan to bring us THE HILLS HAVE EYES 2. The pair wrote a gritty, ferocious, and relentlessly suspenseful tale of a very green National Guard unit which unwittingly ends up in mutant territory where their nastiest nightmares come terrifyingly true. The film is directed by cutting-edge filmmaker Martin Weisz, whose resent film Butterfly: A Grimm Love Story has both won acclaim and stirred up controversy for its graphic depiction of modern day cannibalism. Thus, the combined talents of Wes Craven and Martin Weisz create the ultimate horror experience not to be missed, and never to be forgotten.
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The Hills Have Eyes 2 (2007)
Directed by: Martin Weisz
Starring: Michael McMillian, Jessica Stroup, Daniella Alonso, Jacob Vargas, Lee Thompson Young, Archie Kao, Eric Edelstein, Jay Acovone, Jason Oettle, Gáspár Szabó
Screenplay by: Wes Craven, Jonathan Craven
Production Design by: Keith Wilson
Cinematography by: Sam McCurdy
Film Editing by: Sue Blainey
Costume Design by: Katherine Jane Bryant
Set Decoration by: Luca Tranchino
Art Direction by: Alistair Kay
Music by: Trevor Morris
MPAA Rating: R for prolonged sequences of strong gruesome horror violence and gore, a rape, language.
Distributed by: 20th Century Fox
Release Date: March 23, 2007
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