Like Craven's original, Aja's version gets the job done - it makes your stomach turn, puts you on edge, and gives you a horror-movie ride.

Full Review | Mar 24, 2007

It's just nasty.

Full Review | Mar 20, 2006

What's fundamentally missing is the anarchic, irrational unpredictability that made the original so terrifying.

| Original Score: C+ | Mar 20, 2006

If these hills only had eyes, it would be one thing but parents should know that they also have mutants wielding pickaxes which results in a disturbingly graphic movie not suitable for sensitive audiences of any age or species.

Full Review | Original Score: C | Mar 11, 2006

... Aja and his gorehound ilk are making movies that simply wallow in state-of-the-art displays of torture, sadism and sexual humiliation.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Mar 10, 2006

... a brilliantly reimagined version of Wes Craven's 1977 micro-budget horror classic ...

| Original Score: 3/4 | Mar 10, 2006

... a blast.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Mar 10, 2006

When its makers, director Alexandre Aja and his co-writer Gregory Levasseur, apply the fresh gloss to the old grit, they remember to apply the thinnest layer possible without skimping on the roughhouse humor.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Mar 10, 2006

It's pretty dull to watch people killing each other for an hour and a half, no matter how bloody the pickax work gets.

Full Review | Original Score: 1/4 | Mar 10, 2006

New horror films, like Aja's, simply shock us with the blunt imagery of heads being axed or blown up, and of limbs being chopped or ripped off.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Mar 10, 2006

Hills' new mix of old elements somehow feels fresh.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Mar 10, 2006

This is not a remake or reinterpretation of Craven's film so much as a recapitulation of ideas from that film and other movies.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Mar 10, 2006

Filled with gristle, gore and mutant mayhem, The Hills Have Eyes is a blood feast for horror fans hungering for something more than the by-rote splatter platters that lately have been filling movie theaters.

| Original Score: B+ | Mar 10, 2006

Hills is the unadulterated stuff, no cut, no chaser.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Mar 10, 2006

Consider it as one of the first decent 'Why do they hate us' horror flicks.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | Mar 10, 2006

Like the Chainsaw rehash, Eyes borrows its title and narrative from a memorably grungy '70s artifact and then proceeds to hammer each new atrocity into your skull with a quarter of the skill and 10 times the blatancy of the original.

Full Review | Original Score: 1.5/4 | Mar 10, 2006

... a surprising and welcome interpretation of the material ...

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 10, 2006

From complete dismemberment to extreme shotgun violence, Aja & Co. not only pull out the stops on this one, they decimate them.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Mar 10, 2006

The film has an unpredictable quality that keeps viewers unnerved.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/5 | Mar 10, 2006

The tagline for the new "Hills" is "The lucky ones die first." Actually, the lucky ones skip this exploitative remake and either watch the original or just read a good book.

Full Review | Original Score: 1.5/4 | Mar 10, 2006