The Hills Have Eyes **** (1977, Susan Lanier, Robert Houston, Virginia Vincent, Russ Grieve, Dee Wallace, Martin Speer, Michael Berryman) – Classic Movie Review 2814

Writer-director Wes Craven’s 1977 horror movie is a great, in-your-face, visceral shocker which established his international reputation.

In the credible horror story, a tribe of deformed, inter-bred crazed cannibals pick off people on holiday, whose car crashes and they are stranded on an air testing range in the desert.

Craven’s movie is nasty but gripping, inventive and extremely well made by the creative and inspired director.

In the cast are Susan Lanier, Robert Houston, Virginia Vincent, Russ Grieve, Dee Wallace, Martin Speer and Michael Berryman.

It was remade in 2006. The violence is strong but comparatively moderate in the 1977 version, nowhere near as graphic as in the remake.

Craven’s sequel, The Hills Have Eyes, Part II, followed in 1985.

RIP Wes Craven, horror genius, who died on 30 August 2015, aged 76.

© Derek Winnert 2015 Classic Movie Review 2814

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