The Hills Have Eyes Part II

This article is about the sequel to the original 1977 film. For the sequel to the 2006 remake, see The Hills Have Eyes 2.
The Hills Have Eyes Part II

Theatrical release poster
Directed by Wes Craven
Produced by Barry Cahn
Jonathan Debin
Peter Locke
Written by Wes Craven
Starring Michael Berryman
Janus Blythe
Kevin Spirtas
John Bloom
Tamara Stafford
Music by Harry Manfredini
Cinematography David Lewis
Edited by Richard Bracken
Production
company
VTC
Distributed by Castle Hill Productions
Release dates
 June 1984 (World premier in Italy)
Running time
 90 minutes
Country United States
Language English
Budget $700,000 (estimated)

The Hills Have Eyes Part II is a 1984 American horror film directed by Wes Craven. It is a sequel to the 1977 film The Hills Have Eyes.

Plot

The film begins with a man narrating then opens with Bobby Carter and his psychiatrist discussing the events of the first film, which took place eight years ago. Bobby is still traumatized by the events, but he and Rachel (formerly known as Ruby) who now owns a biker team and have also invented a super fuel that can power bikes. The team is due to race in the same desert where the original massacre took place and Bobby's psychiatrist convinces him to go, but he declines and Rachel takes his place. The team consisting of the blind Cass, her boyfriend Roy, Harry, Hulk, Foster, Jane and Sue meets up at a bus and sets off. Along the way, they picked up Beast from a dog pound, in which the dog was previously owned by the Carters, who now belongs to Rachel.

While going through the desert, they get lost and Harry suggests a shortcut through the bombing range. As they drive, the bus begins leaking fuel and they stopped at an old mining ranch. As they explore the mine, Pluto, who apparently survived the earlier attack from Beast, attacks Rachel. She fights him off and he retreats, but no one believes her at first until Pluto returns and steals one of their bikes. Roy and Harry chases him down, but Harry falls behind and gets caught in a trap and is then flattened by a massive rock. Roy catches Pluto, but is ambushed by a 7-foot cannibal called the Reaper who knocks him unconscious. The Reaper is later revealed to be Papa Jupiter's older brother.

Meanwhile, the rest of the group stays at the mine until nightfall. They begin to worry about Roy and Harry but Rachel and Hulk depart to look for them while the others stay behind. The Reaper then begins to stalk the remaining teens. As Hulk and Rachel tries to escape on the motorcycle, he shoots Hulk through the chest with a spear bolt as he dies, leaving Rachel to run away in fear.

The Reaper then returns to the mine, where he pulls Foster under the bus and kills him with a hatchet. Jane then finds Foster's body but the Reaper catches her opens her clothes and crushes her in a bearhug. Sue returns to the camp only to be thrown through a window by the Reaper and slits her throat with a machete. Rachel runs into Pluto and the two wrestles for a moment. Pluto pins her to the ground but Beast surprises him and chases him away. She stops running to get a look around the area until she hears Reaper's voice whispering out to her, "Ruby" and a snap is heard from somewhere in the dark. Rachel turns around to see what is coming at her. Helpless, she sees that it's Hulk's corpse tied up as it pushes against her. Rachel falls to the ground and hits her on a rock causing minor bleeding as she moans and falls unconscious as Reaper laughs at her from the bushes and remains unconscious for the night leaving only Cass.

Meanwhile, Roy wakes up and runs into Pluto at the top of a cliff. Pluto gets ready to attack him, but Beast returns and knocks him off the cliff to his death.

Cass runs from the Reaper and ends up in his mineshaft, where he dumped the bodies and comes across the corpses of all her friends. She throws a jar of acid at his face and escapes up a rope with help from Roy. The Reaper follows them but they trapped him in a bus full of bike fuel. They set it on fire and watched as it explodes. The Reaper escapes from the wreckage covered in flames and attempts to kill them one last time, but he stumbles into an open mineshaft, leading to his death.

The film ends with Roy, Cass and Beast walking away from the mine at sunrise, into the vast desert as they follow the road home.

Cast

Release

Critical reception

The film was panned by critics. AllMovie called it "atrocious".[1] It currently holds a 0% 'rotten' rating on movie review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes based on five reviews.[2]

Home video

The film was first released on DVD in the U.S. 17 November 2002 by Image Entertainment in a poor-quality fullscreen transfer, which is now out of print. Redemption and Kino released a remastered edition of the film on DVD and Blu-ray on 30 March 2012.[3]

In the UK, Anchor Bay released the film as an individual release as well as in a box set with the first film and The Hills Have Eyes III, presenting the film in widescreen.

There is a Media Home Video release on VHS. It is fully uncut and fairly decent quality, but very rare.

References

  1. ↑ Firsching, Robert. "The Hills Have Eyes, Part 2 - Trailers, Reviews, Synopsis, Showtimes and Cast - AllMovie". AllMovie. Retrieved 8 August 2012.
  2. ↑ "The Hills Have Eyes, Part 2 - Rotten Tomatoes". Rotten Tomatoes. Retrieved 8 August 2012.
  3. ↑ "The Hills Have Eyes: Part II Blu-ray: Remastered Edition". blu-ray.com. Retrieved 8 August 2012.
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