The Hills Have Eyes 2

  • Review Date: July 15, 2007
  • R
  • Genre: Horror
  • 2007
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Common Sense Media says

Gory sequel pits mutants against the military.
greenON: Content is age-appropriate for kids this age.
yellowPAUSE: Know your child; some content
may not be right for some kids.
redOFF: Not age-appropriate for kids this age.
not for kidsNOT FOR KIDS: Not appropriate for kids any age.

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What parents need to know

Parents need to know that this mutant-centric horror sequel definitely isn't for kids. The violence is gruesome and sustained, the language is unremitting ("f--k," in all its variations, is a constant), and an ugly rape scene ensures one woman's blind desire for revenge on an especially long-tongued, white-goo-spitting mutant. Weapons include knives, guns, and assorted body-piercing implements (spears, bayonet, poles). The very first scene is a bloody, screaming, gross-out birth (leading to the bare-breasted mother's immediate murder). An early mock battle scene is very fast-paced, aggressively edited, and loud. All assaults by mutants are bloody, gross, and horrible.

  • No positive messages to take away.
  • There aren't too many characters you would want your kids to emulate. National Guard trainees think they're tough, but they learn quickly that they're no match for ruthless, canny mutants.
  • Bloody, close-up, gory, and relentless. National Guard trainees are introduced in a battle simulation shooting, exploding, and facing a suicide bomber; thereafter, bodies are thrown, grabbed, kicked, beaten, dismembered, disemboweled, exploded, shot, stabbed, and shown splatted on the ground. One dying man shows up inside a latrine, his cuts absorbing toxic sewage; heads are smashed, shot, and pierced; weapons include guns, knives, a cleaver, a grenade, dynamite, a bayonet, rocks, and a shovel. Jump scenes in cave; a horrible rape from behind (in shadows, but violence is very harsh and victim's face shows distress); bodies fall or are pulled into holes.
  • Early, grisly birth scene shows mother's breasts; discussion of a romance between a pair of National Guard troops includes sexual slang ("Doing a whole 'nother kind of draining"); assault by one mutant on a woman includes a long tongue lick -- he then inserts his tongue in her mouth (she bites it off, very bloody, and kicks him in crotch). Sexualized violence.
  • Incessant. Non-stop uses of "f--k" (several with "mother-" and one as finger gesture) in addition "s--t" and other language ("hell," damn," "ass," "c--k," "balls," and "bitch").
  • Not applicable.
  • One character is nicknamed alternately "Private Crackhead" and "Crank."

What's the story?

Those yucky desert mutants have resurfaced, this time in search of females for breeding. Their all-male tribalism is underlined in the first scene of THE HILLS HAVE EYES 2, in which a not-so-grotesque-looking woman gives painful birth to a baby and is promptly whacked in the head and killed by a hulking male mutant. The mutants' apparent misogyny is then juxtaposed with the coed U.S. National Guard, whose trainees are working together in a harrowing mock battle set in a desert that passes for Kandahar, Afghanistan. When they're hoodwinked by a woman wailing about her dead babies, it's clear that gender integration has been achieved in contemporary warfare. Still, the young trainees aren't ready for what they discover in New Mexico. They've heard the rumors, of course, that Section 16 was used by the military to test nuclear weapons during the 1950s. But they can't anticipate that, 50 years later, descendents of everyone who was neglected by the government and deformed by radiation would still be looking for vengeance against the able-bodied and, especially, the pretty.


Is it any good?

 

The movie features a disturbingly profuse amount of blood and gore -- battle with the mutants results in all manner of bodily abuse, and the mutants themselves arrive looking mightily pre-abused, their heads and limbs misshapen. After much shooting, hacking, and screaming, the National Guard unit is reduced to its survivor core, at which point they're so angry and anguished that their violent payback takes on particularly sexualized characteristics -- it's all about penetrating bodies and kicking crotches.


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What families can talk about

  • Families can talk about the movie's over-the-top violence. Do these gruesome, bloody scenes serve specific functions?

  • Discuss how the film treats women.

  • The mutants want
    to breed with them, and the men want to protect them -- what do the
    women themselves want?


This review was written by Cynthia Fuchs
Teen, 17 years old
November 7, 2010
 

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Teen, 15 years old
November 1, 2010
 
it is a good movie for kids all age

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Adult
May 8, 2009
 
this movie was a grisly movie or as i call it a commercial movie, a movie inwhich a movie is good looking in the comercial but when you go see it in theaters it is not very good this movie has its funny moments which are not needed. a woman gives birth and ALL is seen. there is also a rape and it is very easy to see whats happening becaue the mutant say YOU MAKE ME BABY

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Teen, 16 years old
April 9, 2008
 
I thought this movie was disturbing
I liked this movie. But it was very disturbing. One of the mutants raped someone, and it was a very gory movie. So, i wouldn't let any kids under 13 watch it.

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Adult
April 9, 2008
 

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Teen, 14 years old
July 23, 2010
 
ADULTS ONLY!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Alright, here we go: Good Stuff: some of these characters do the right things, they help people, and eachother. Bad Stuff: Language: sh*t, f*ck, motherf*cker, *ss, *sshole, d*ck, c*cksucker, b*tch, beotch, pretty much anything... Violence: over the top, puke-inducing, disgusting, brutal violence, almost throughout the whole movie. Brain matter is shown, lots of intestines, blood, and gore. Repeated stabbing, you name it, they have it... Sex/Nudity: at the very beginning, there is a graphic birth scene, breasts and vagina visible, bloody baby, with umbilical cord. Mutant kills woman after she gives birth. A rape. A couple of attempted rapes. Tongue is forced down throat, then girl bites it off. Bloody. Lots of kicks and beating to the crotch area. Alcohol/Drugs/Smoking: Not a big deal in this movie... Consumerism: none Overall, this movie was disturbing, puke-inducing, stomach-stirring disgusting, blood and gore fest. Not to say it's bad. I'm a huge horror movie fan, and I love this movie! NOT APPROPRIATE FOR KIDS.

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Teen, 15 years old
July 31, 2011
 
the hills have eyes 2
this movie was not scary at all it was not worth watching lots of violence in the end it didnt make any sense .

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Adult
October 23, 2010
 
This movie is absolutely by far the most disgusting thing I have ever seen, who ever thought of such a thing is so mentally messed up in the head words can not even describe it. Unless you want to be scared for life, then be my guest and go watch this movie.

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Adult
April 9, 2008
 
Very violent but very interesting
This movie is not for kids cause of the violence,I sneaked in to this movie because I was very eager to see it. Theres a lot of blood and gore and its probably suitable for mature teens.

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Adult
April 9, 2008
 
bad
this is NOT ENTERTAINMENT this is pure wrong. do not love violence

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This review was written by Cynthia Fuchs
Studio:Fox Atomic
Director:Martin Weisz
Cast:Jacob Vargas, Jessica Stroup, Michael McMillian
Genre:Horror
Run time:89 minutes
Theatrical release date:March 23, 2007
DVD release date:July 17, 2007
MPAA rating:R
MPAA explanation:prolonged sequences of strong gruesome horror violence and gore, a rape and language.

This review was written by Cynthia Fuchs
 

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