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A group of idiots go into the desert hills to party, drink, and smoke pot, not knowing that these hills have cannibal rednecks living in them in this "Hills Have Eyes" clone that only the Asylum can make. The Asylum is widely regarded as being heavily synonymous was complete and utter crap, and with good reason as most, if not all, of their films are practically unwatchable, this one being no exception. Personally, I'm glad that of all these Asylum abominations that I've seen, I haven't paid for any of them (well OK yeah I have indirectly through Netflix & premium cable but I digress) Not.worth your times, money or loss of sanity to watch this.

This movie was made to cash in on the success of the 2006 remake of "the Hills Have Eyes".

Not since Kurt Russell portrayed a jungle boy on Gilligan's Island has someone done such an amazing job of not looking like a primitive. The Cannibals in this movie are pathetic. They engage in what can only be described as "Ooga Booga" acting. It takes more to be threatening in a performance that simply slipping on a leather coat which was bought from a Salvation Army used clothing store, rolling in the mud, and yelling, while waving your hands in the air. The nylon wigs, and halloween makeup show more of an effort than many of the "movies" produced by this production company / video mill, but all in all there is very little meat on the bones of this cannibal film. The violence and gore will satisfy those that are purely into graphic scenes, but if you need plot or logic in order to suspend your disbelief forget it. Issues like why there are cannibal, how they got there, and why their victims arrive in the desert in the first place are not addressed. What the director obviously didn't realise is that when it comes to horror less is more. This is especially true when you have actors that are so over the top in their depictions that the cave man in the Pauly Shore film "Encino Man" seems like something put together by anthropologists in a documentary. We almost see more interaction of the cannibals relating to each other than we do the victims to whom we are meant to relate. The post-nuclear valley girl-looking cannibals brutally kill their victims and than daintily eat the body parts off a licence plate like canapays. At one point you can even hear the director tell two of the cannibals "Ok, now lick your fingers" as they gently nibble away on the flesh as if Miss Manners herself was standing off screen as a technical adviser instructing on etiquette. If you can look past the fact that the cave in which they live is lite up like a Macy's Christmas tree, you are left to wonder where the cannibals got the vanilla candles that burn in the knooks and cranies of the cave from time to time (Peir One?). Basically, what you have is a film that contains scenes of violence and brutality which are rendered ineffective by all the rest of the films content.

This film isn't that bad. Though is could have been better. The acting is weak for a horror movie, half the time people just looked annoyed rather than scared. On the other hand, if you LIKE your movies someone amusing and silly (and there are times when that is exactly what I am looking for) then this movie is for you.

What I did want to comment on was the above poster saying that Craven should sue. IF you would have actually looked at the movie jacket a bit closer you would see that the working title is actually "Hillside Cannibals: The Legend of SAWNEY BEAN. You would also then realize that is exactly who Craven said inspired his movie, "The Hills have Eyes." I don't know...not to be rude, but maybe you should do a bit of research before jumping the gun. The movie takes liberties with the legend of the Bean family, but since there is nothing in the way of hard evidence to corroborate whether or not the Bean family actually existed, it is pretty obvious that both the director of this movie and Craven himself have taken liberties with the retelling of the story.

It's tough to criticize this movie because really I knew what I was getting into with the lame cover art and the complete lack of a description on the back (the back of the DVD case is just a retelling of the Sawney Bean clan). Still, I was hoping for either something that was so bad it was funny or at least so bad it was amusing.

Instead, this is just so bad it's tedious. It's not a bad looking movie like most of the other shot-on-video productions that go straight to video, and there are some decent gore effects here or there, but the whole time it feels like the cast and crew are just sleepwalking through the thing for a paycheck. There's not a scent of originality here whatsoever - the whole plot was lifted from the original "The Hills Have Eyes", only without the fleshed out characters or compelling antagonists. Speaking of the antagonists - what the heck are a bunch of kilt wearing cave people doing in the mountains of California? Did I miss that explanation? Did I miss the explanation of why they behave like a high school production of The Flinstones? Yawn.

The only redeeming thing about this movie was trying to guess whether or not the lead actress was wearing a wig or not. I vote for yes. Either that or she should never work with her stylist from this flick ever again.

Congratulations, Asylum, you have suckered me once, but this is the last time I am using my hard-earned cash on one of your cop out excuses for cinema.

What a disappointment.It said this was the story of Sawney Bean but as it was set in the present day with the usual excuse of kids on vacation there to discover all was not what it seemed just what was the point? Were you supposed to figure out the ones who actually spoke English were seeing a reenactment photographed into the ether? As if they were receivers? The story of the cannibal family led by a 17th century braindead lowlife was interesting enough for a movie especially as this family were well hidden from authority by conducting their business in a network of caves in Scotland and were only discovered after one person escaped their ambush. Bean was executed in Edinborough by hanging with both his hands and feet cut off so he bled to death and was put to death without trial because the caves were full of human bones. Surely that would have made a better movie than this excuse for horror and an easy enough job for the "actors" who were just required to grunt

Cannibalism is not the subject of idle chit-chat. Really liked the effects, set and bad guys in this Theasylum flick. Tom(Bill)Nagel is the only victim ,I had apathy for…Being a fomer carpal tunnel patient, My hands hurt almost as much as Toms. Vaz(Callum) Andreas had the most scenes to emote in, If you could while munching on co-stars. Leigh(Sawney)Scott had the kewlest role as leader on stilts and why not when your also the director. Tom(Towart)Downey, Hey they didn't list you in IMDb& we interviewed before, Has the most fun as the Big Brother with a gimmick. Louis(Sheriff)Graham was even more disturbing then as the neighbor in When A Killer Calls, For shame on you sir. Erica(Rhian) Roby has the required T & A scene and is as pretty as she is hungry. The ending freaked me, And not in a good way…Whatever happened to happy endings Where ,oh, where is MICHAEL BERRYMAN ???

Great start. Really threw a curve ball at us we did not see coming.. only then to slow to a absolute snails pace after the 15min mark. Ended up skipping through the movie and was able to piece it together as it ludicrously predictable. Should be called hillside caveman.

There's some scary stuff here – the Blockbuster guy doesn't know what he's talking about. He's only rating the box and didn't see the movie. This is an ultra-low-budget desert-cannibal flick that takes the Scottish cannibal clan and puts them in the Mojave Desert. They obviously couldn't afford to go to Scotland but it's a modern day Sawney Bean tribe with ragged kilts and tons of prosthetic scar tissue. Sawney Bean never really existed – it's an English urban legend. There's no real historical basis so they clearly went with tons of blood and guts. Not a whole lot of story either but it is genuinely gross. I loved the violence, these wackos sure like their fingers. I liked this more than the recent "Hills Have Eyes" remake, which sucked big time. This movie is really inventively disgusting. There's lots of violence, some dubious acting but it's all worth it for the ending, which is sick and twisted and cool.

I would like to set the record straight about Sawney Bean.

Reach4xtc said in his review that Sawney Bean was a English urban legend, this is not true, I live about 30 miles from the cave where Sawney Bean and his family lived, they where very real people and nothing to do with the English, urban legend or otherwise.

I doubt Reach4xtc has ever stepped foot in Scotland and obviously knows nothing of Scottish history.

This being said the rest of his review is quite accurate. A film worth the watching if you like the gore factor, and you don't mind the fact that it is a low budget, bad acting, splatter fest.

right this must act as a warning stay away from this garbage film, I'm already miffed that i got suckered in and actually paid for the DVD. This tedious garbage seems to be utterly devoid of plot, all you get is some kids (of which it is impossible to care about devoid of personality as they are) go to the dessert get eaten by cannonballs who enjoy incest, thats it the plot save you watching this utter utter tripe. The only thing that is mildly decent about this is the effects are OK which hints at either a really good effects team or this film was funded far more money than it deserves. Terrible STAY AWAY. Seriously terrible not even in the so bad its good category

This movie was perhaps the worst film I have ever seen in my life... I can think of no comparison and I've seen some pretty painful stuff...

Id say this was a spoiler alert but it really isn't... within the first 5 minutes the entire main cast dies and they are replaced with even worse actors....

This movie was so painful to watch that me and my other two college friends had to amuse ourselves with something. So we just ended up laughing the entire time at this piece of garbage.

If you want a movie that is so horrible that you have to laugh.. watch this one

Bad ending, more like watching a Face of Death documentary.

Okay, so this is a first-time review and I can't believe I'm doing it for this load of dross.

I love, love, love a B-movie. Watched and collected a ton of them over the years but the writers, directors, producers, and cast members do need to be trapped somewhere they can't escape from and be forced to watch this movie time and again.

No real plot to speak or what there was there was taken from other, better movies. It's derivative and boring. The acting is dire and the sloppy kiss acting at the beginning had me watching the time until they were killed by the weird barbie looking cannibals.

Sorry, it's as if they dragged Paris Hilton out of a car wash and said to her, "Paris, we know you can't act so this is perfect for you."

The whole thing is monstrous and not worth a second viewing, it's not even worth the first one.

Also, here's hoping the sound editors/effects folks take up new roles in industries that don't let them near a recording or effects deck ever again. It was so distracting and out of sync or just plain incorrect.

Won't be searching for this one again. I might advise someone I hate to watch it but at the moment this would be the people in it. Sooo...

Alright, I was in Blockbuster today on my lunch break and spotted to preview sleeves for this (both copies were actually rented out). It claimed to be the tale that inspired the Hills Have Eyes. Um, WHAT?! That is the most bogus claim I've ever read! Hey director/script writer: watch the documentary on the original Hills Have Eyes (1977) 2-disk by Anchor Bay. In it, Wes Craven states that the inspiration for the Hills Have Eyes was a cave-dwelling medieval (sp?) family in the British Isles (the Seaney-Beane family I believe). Wes Craven should sue the hell out of the "production company" of this "film" for libel! I am insulted that anyone would try to cash in on film-renters' ignorance of a subject by just plain lying. I came across another video box for "When A Killer Calls" which claims to be more like the urban legend (the babysitter and the man upstairs) than the original When A Stranger Calls. RUBBISH! I CALL SHINANIGANS!!