The Hills Have Eyes 2 (2007 version)

THE HILLS HAVE EYES 2 (2007 version)

Written by Wes Craven & Jonathan Craven, this sequel to the remake of The Hills Have Eyes follows a group of U.S. National Guard trainees as they bumble about a section of New Mexico desert that’s inhabited by mutant cannibals.  When the natives kidnap one of the female trainees and drag her into an old abandoned mine, her comrades attempt a rescue mission.

The “good guys” in this film are incompetent, unsympathetic, and not very bright (almost as if the screenwriters wanted the audience to root for the mutants).  When the commanding officer of the trainees gets killed by friendly fire, the troops decide that their top priority is getting his corpse back to their base camp (even though by this point in the story they are aware that homicidal enemies lurk around them).  You may want to check out this movie if you really dig the 2006 version of The Hills Have Eyes and must know what happens next.  The sequel is not quite the horrible waste of ninety minutes that I was expecting after reading a few reviews, but it’s nowhere near as engaging as the 2006 film.