The Hills Have Eyes
in Movies ·
warning, potential spoilers:
So, the movie... hm... I've seen it... well, I don't really know how many films of this specific genre I've already sat through on this topic, but I suppose the absolute best one in this category has to be... oh, I can't quite recall the title, but it's the one where those kids go on a field trip and then they get absolutely slaughtered in the woods by these horrific monsters who end up eating most of them... but anyway, that isn't really the point right now...
I guess the only truly logical conclusion I managed to draw from this film is that mutants are just incredibly difficult to kill... they're remarkably resilient, I suppose. Like, there's this guy who gets stabbed—pay attention now—with a baseball bat, but after that, the jerk just comes charging through the room like nothing happened at all! And then there was that part that I thought was even better, where he gets shot twice in the neck and head with a shotgun, yet he just stands back up after a minute and tries to grab a gun despite having taken a shot to the hands... though that little girl manages to fix things. Or take that moment when the guy flies into the air along with his trailer... there isn't a single scrap left of the trailer, yet he survives! And then those thugs decide to drive a screwdriver straight into his skull?!... honestly, what the heck. For the first 45 minutes, I was actually watching, but after that, I found myself just tapping the arrow key on my keyboard over and over again. It wasn't necessarily that the movie became exhausting because of any particularly disgusting scenes—nothing too extreme, maybe you should watch Descent instead—but it was just hard for me to keep watching. I started feeling quite sleepy, I guess. It felt like something you'd watch just to kill time if you had nothing better to do, even though there are probably much better ways to spend your time than sitting through this 1:48:22 runtime. There are some interesting scenes, though... for instance, if you pause it right when that master craftsman splatters a head in the bathroom... it might actually be worth watching just to see how they put that together, specifically their depiction of what's left of a head after someone blasts it with a bullet in the mouth.🙂 rating: +2
So, the movie... hm... I've seen it... well, I don't really know how many films of this specific genre I've already sat through on this topic, but I suppose the absolute best one in this category has to be... oh, I can't quite recall the title, but it's the one where those kids go on a field trip and then they get absolutely slaughtered in the woods by these horrific monsters who end up eating most of them... but anyway, that isn't really the point right now...
I guess the only truly logical conclusion I managed to draw from this film is that mutants are just incredibly difficult to kill... they're remarkably resilient, I suppose. Like, there's this guy who gets stabbed—pay attention now—with a baseball bat, but after that, the jerk just comes charging through the room like nothing happened at all! And then there was that part that I thought was even better, where he gets shot twice in the neck and head with a shotgun, yet he just stands back up after a minute and tries to grab a gun despite having taken a shot to the hands... though that little girl manages to fix things. Or take that moment when the guy flies into the air along with his trailer... there isn't a single scrap left of the trailer, yet he survives! And then those thugs decide to drive a screwdriver straight into his skull?!... honestly, what the heck. For the first 45 minutes, I was actually watching, but after that, I found myself just tapping the arrow key on my keyboard over and over again. It wasn't necessarily that the movie became exhausting because of any particularly disgusting scenes—nothing too extreme, maybe you should watch Descent instead—but it was just hard for me to keep watching. I started feeling quite sleepy, I guess. It felt like something you'd watch just to kill time if you had nothing better to do, even though there are probably much better ways to spend your time than sitting through this 1:48:22 runtime. There are some interesting scenes, though... for instance, if you pause it right when that master craftsman splatters a head in the bathroom... it might actually be worth watching just to see how they put that together, specifically their depiction of what's left of a head after someone blasts it with a bullet in the mouth.🙂 rating: +2