The Hills Have Eyes

The Hills Have Eyes is an American horror franchise that consists of four horror films, as well as a graphic novel and merchandise. The first film was released in 1977, The Hills Have Eyes; the series was rebooted in a 2006 remake. The films focus on a group of people stranded in a desert who become hunted by a clan of deformed cannibals in the surrounding hills. The films collectively grossed over $132 million at the box-office worldwide. The series was created by Wes Craven who is known for the Nightmare on Elm Street and Scream films.^[2][3][4][5] The series has featured actors and actresses including Dee Wallace, Aaron Stanford, Michael Berryman and Emilie de Ravin.

In 2016, Arrow Video released a restored edition DVD and Blu-ray.^[1]

Films

Film	Director	Writer(s)	Producer(s)
The Hills Have Eyes (1977)	Wes Craven	Wes Craven	Peter Locke
The Hills Have Eyes Part II (1985)			Barry Cahn, Jonathan Debin and Peter Locke
The Hills Have Eyes (2006)	Alexandre Aja	Alexandre Aja and Grégory Levasseur	Wes Craven, Marianne Maddalena and Peter Locke
The Hills Have Eyes 2 (2007)	Martin Weisz	Wes Craven and Jonathan Craven

Reception

Box office

Film	Release date (US)	Budget	Box office revenue			Reference
			United States	Foreign	Worldwide
The Hills Have Eyes (1977)	July 22, 1977	$230,000	$25,000,000	—	$25,000,000
The Hills Have Eyes Part II	January 2, 1985	$700,000	—	—	—
The Hills Have Eyes (2006)	March 10, 2006	$15,000,000	$41,778,863	$27,844,850	$69,623,713	^[6]
The Hills Have Eyes 2	March 23, 2007	$15,000,000	$20,804,166	$16,662,372	$37,405,247	^[7]
Total		$38,930,000	$66,584,110	$44,507,222	$132,028,960

Critical reception

Most of the films have received mixed reception from critics.

Film	Rotten Tomatoes	Metacritic
The Hills Have Eyes (1977)	67% (24 reviews)^[8]
The Hills Have Eyes Part II	0% (7 reviews)^[9]
The Hills Have Eyes (2006)	52% (142 reviews)^[10]	52% (28 reviews)^[11]
The Hills Have Eyes 2	12% (68 reviews)^[12]	32% (18 reviews)^[13]

Comics

 

Cover art

To coincide with the release of The Hills Have Eyes 2, Fox Atomic Comics released a graphic novel set in the continuity of the remake series in July 2007. The Hills Have Eyes: The Beginning reveals the genesis of the mutants, who were once normal people, ignorant to the rest of the world, and how they evolved into horrific creatures.^[14][15] It was written by Jimmy Palmiotti and Justin Gray, and drawn by John Higgins.

References

1. "4K Restoration of Wes Craven's The Hills Have Eyes Coming From Arrow Video". Brutal As Hell.
2. "The Hills Have Eyes 1977". Blu-ray.
3. "15 Things You Probably Didn't Know About The Hills Have Eyes 2". IFC.
4. "The Hills Have Eyes (1977)". High-Def Digest.
5. "The Hills Have Eyes Part 2 (Widescreen)". walmart.com.
6. "The Hills Have Eyes 2006 Box Office". BoxOfficeMojo.com. Retrieved 26 November 2014.
7. "The Hills Have Eyes 2 Box Office". BoxOfficeMojo.com. Retrieved 26 November 2014.
8. "The Hills Have Eyes". Rotten Tomatoes. Retrieved 2009-12-13.
9. "The Hills Have Eyes, Part II". Rotten Tomatoes. Retrieved 2022-12-03.
10. "The Hills Have Eyes". Rotten Tomatoes. Retrieved 2009-12-13.
11. "The Hills Have Eyes (2006): Reviews". Metacritic. Retrieved 2009-12-13.
12. "The Hills Have Eyes 2". Rotten Tomatoes. Retrieved 2009-12-13.
13. "The Hills Have Eyes 2 (2007): Reviews". Metacritic. Retrieved 2009-12-13.
14. "The Hills Have Eyes: The Beginning". HarperCollins.com. Retrieved 26 November 2014.
15. "The Hills Have Eyes: The Beginning Preview". IGN. 8 February 2007.

External links

 

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