The Hills Have Eyes
Movie: The Hills Have Eyes (1977)
Watched with: Angelo
Some of my favorite movies are horror movies (just like how some of my best friends are any given minority!).
The problem, I think, is this--
If your movie has boring characters, no one cares.
If your movie has interesting characters, having them all get killed one-by-one is about the least interesting thing you could possibly do with them.
Hills has a fairly cool concept, with its savage mutant family hunting down an RV-driving family in the deserts of Nevada, but once you get the gist (say, 15 minutes in), it's just a matter of waiting for everyone to die.
I wish one of the people in the van was a young MacGyver, and his desperation to survive and stop the mutant madmen jumpstarted the inventiveness that would be his trademark on television a decade later, and in syndication for all time.
They did a remake, which just came out on video, but IMDB doesn't say Richard Dean Anderson's in it, so I probably don't care.
Watched with: Angelo
Some of my favorite movies are horror movies (just like how some of my best friends are any given minority!).
The problem, I think, is this--
If your movie has boring characters, no one cares.
If your movie has interesting characters, having them all get killed one-by-one is about the least interesting thing you could possibly do with them.
Hills has a fairly cool concept, with its savage mutant family hunting down an RV-driving family in the deserts of Nevada, but once you get the gist (say, 15 minutes in), it's just a matter of waiting for everyone to die.
I wish one of the people in the van was a young MacGyver, and his desperation to survive and stop the mutant madmen jumpstarted the inventiveness that would be his trademark on television a decade later, and in syndication for all time.
They did a remake, which just came out on video, but IMDB doesn't say Richard Dean Anderson's in it, so I probably don't care.
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