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The Hills Have Eyes Part II

  • 19841984
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  • 1h 26m
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3.7/10
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Michael Berryman and John Bloom in The Hills Have Eyes Part II (1984)
A group of bikers, heading to a race, become stranded in the desert and find themselves fighting off a family of inbred cannibals who live off the land.
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A group of bikers, heading to a race, become stranded in the desert and find themselves fighting off a family of inbred cannibals who live off the land.A group of bikers, heading to a race, become stranded in the desert and find themselves fighting off a family of inbred cannibals who live off the land.A group of bikers, heading to a race, become stranded in the desert and find themselves fighting off a family of inbred cannibals who live off the land.
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6.9K
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    • Wes Craven
    • Wes Craven
  • Stars
    • Robert Houston
    • David Nichols
    • Virginia Vincent(archive footage)
    • Wes Craven
    • Wes Craven
  • Stars
    • Robert Houston
    • David Nichols
    • Virginia Vincent(archive footage)
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    • 75User reviews
    • 85Critic reviews
    • 25Metascore
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    Janus Blythe, Peter Frechette, Penny Johnson Jerald, John Laughlin, Willard E. Pugh, Colleen Riley, Kevin Spirtas, and Tamara Stafford in The Hills Have Eyes Part II (1984)
    Michael Berryman and Kevin Spirtas in The Hills Have Eyes Part II (1984)

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    Robert Houston
    Robert Houston
    • Bobby
    David Nichols
    • The Psychiatrist
    Virginia Vincent
    Virginia Vincent
    • Ethel Carter
    • (archive footage)
    James Whitworth
    James Whitworth
    • Jupiter
    • (archive footage)
    Susan Lanier
    Susan Lanier
    • Brenda
    • (archive footage)
    Tamara Stafford
    Tamara Stafford
    • Cass
    Kevin Spirtas
    Kevin Spirtas
    • Roy
    • (as Kevin Blair)
    John Laughlin
    John Laughlin
    • Hulk
    Willard E. Pugh
    Willard E. Pugh
    • Foster
    • (as Willard Pugh)
    Peter Frechette
    Peter Frechette
    • Harry
    Colleen Riley
    • Jane
    Penny Johnson Jerald
    Penny Johnson Jerald
    • Sue
    • (as Penny Johnson)
    Janus Blythe
    Janus Blythe
    • Rachel…
    Lance Gordon
    Lance Gordon
    • Mars
    • (archive footage)
    Brenda Marinoff
    • Katy
    • (archive footage)
    Martin Speer
    Martin Speer
    • Doug
    • (archive footage)
    Edith Fellows
    Edith Fellows
    • Mrs. Wilson
    Arden Roger Meyer
    • Man With Towel
      • Wes Craven
      • Wes Craven
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    • Trivia
      Though it was released after A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984), The Hills Have Eyes Part 2 was shot before A Nightmare on Elm Street went into production. Writer-director Wes Craven has claimed that only about two thirds of the movie was shot before the studio halted production due to budget concerns. When A Nightmare on Elm Street became a box office success, the studio convinced Craven to finish Hills Have Eyes Part 2 using only the footage that had already been shot. Since there was not enough for a feature length film, footage from the first The Hills Have Eyes (1977) was edited in to pad out the running time. Wes Craven has since disowned the movie.
    • Goofs
      (at around 1h 5 mins) Ruby says that The Reaper is Papa Jupiter's big brother, but in The Hills Have Eyes (1977), Otis (Jupiter's father) explained that Jupiter only had an older sister who later died in a house fire that Jupiter set.
    • Quotes

      [his only line]

      The Reaper: Reaper no dumb like Papa Jupe!

    • Connections
      Edited from The Hills Have Eyes (1977)

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    I can't believe this was directed by the same guy.
    (* out of *****) I think Craven must have put all of his energy and creativity into "A Nightmare on Elm Street" (released the same year), because this sequel to his own ‘77 classic is horrible. In fact, I would rate this one even below the director's other ‘80s stinkers "Shocker" and "The People Under the Stairs." The best scenes in this are the long flashbacks from the first movie (and there are several of them -- the damn dog even has one!) Unfortunately, in between the flashbacks, we also get the `new' story about a bunch of dirt bikers stranded in the desert when their bus runs out of gas. Once again, they are attacked and killed off by the two remaining members of the savage, cannibalistic clan from the first film (John Bloom as Reaper and Michael Berryman returning as the scary-looking but wimpy Pluto, who gets his ass kicked by dogs and chics throughout the movie). Robert Houston also returns as Bobby in a brief, opening cameo, and Janus Blythe returns as the newly reformed and now civilized Ruby (when she reveals to everyone that she was raised by a desert-dwelling family of killer cannibals, no one seems to care!) Absolutely nothing works this time around. The characterizations and motivations are dumb, there are gaping plot holes, there is no suspense, no blood, no guts -- in short, none of the hyper-realistic savagery, fear, and helplessness that made the first one so good. The blind heroine of this movie (Tamara Stafford) is so perceptive that she can hear things when no one else can and can sense when a person is afraid, but she doesn't even know when someone's smoking a cigarette right next to her! I heard that this movie underwent a lot of pre-release cutting before it came out, and that's why it turned out so badly -- personally, I think this is a load of bunk. Even movies that are cut up left and right before release should give some indication of whether they could be potentially good or not, and this one gives no such signs of any potential whatsoever.

    Lowlight: The fiery demise of Reaper -- the hero concocts a ridiculous trap for him involving a gasoline tank, the school bus, a ring of fire, and a cable connected to a motor that will pull him between Reaper's legs and through the flames to safety. It's useless to try explaining it -- you have to see it to believe it (but I wouldn't advise it.)
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    • Mar 13, 2003

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    • Remind me of who survived from the first movie.

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    • Release date
      • August 2, 1985 (United States)
      • United States
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      • English
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    • Filming locations
      • Bronson Caves, Bronson Canyon, Griffith Park - 4730 Crystal Springs Drive, Los Angeles, California, USA
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      • New Realm Entertainments
      • VTC
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