By far one of the better Wes Craven flicks, this movie features Michael Berryman (know for playing bald, freakish, freaks) as a bald, freakish, freak! Centering around a family on vacation and the posse of inbred mutants who hunt them down and torture them mentally and physically! The family attempts to take a "shortcut" through the dessert to see a silver mine, but it turns out the only thing around there is an air force target range! Spazzing out from a low flying plane, Grandpa makes a hard turn and busts their axle (old people shouldn't be allowed to drive!). Well, stranded and in need of help, gramps goes off in one direction to find civilization as Mr. Moustache (also known as Doug) goes in the other direction. While they're gone, one of Bobby's dogs runs off into the surrounding hills (which have eyes in case you forgot) where she's killed by a redneck and Bobby finds her little furry corpse DISEMBOWELED! Mwa-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha! This of course turns Bobby into a basket case recluse who avoids his family and just sits alone and mopes all day. Thanx to a drunken salvager that Gramps finds, we learn that in 1929 his wife had a freakish monkey baby (wondered why she always took lunch breaks at the zoo) who grew to be a sadistic, savage little fuck who burned his own house down in '39, killing his baby sister. As the years went by, young freak boy grew up, kidnapped a whore and made his own freak family! But, soon as we learn this, daddy's little boy kills him, leaving Gramps (a retired detective) alive to torment. Papa Jupiter (the freak boy turned freak family man) and his family of mutants swipe Gramps on his way back to the campsite. Doug makes it back, arms full of junk since he found a junkyard nearby. Beast (the other dog) runs off and finds Beauty's (the dead canine) eviscerated body, then Beast goes on the prowl for revenge! Dog will hunt... heh heh, dog will hunt... After crucifying Gramps, the weirdos burn him alive as his family watches in terror and Pluto and Mars (two of the hill people) ransack their trailer, kidnap the baby, shoot the mom and the brunette, and raping the blonde, leaving her screaming frantically as the menfolk show up. Beast pushes Mercury (the REALLY retarded one) off a cliff and rips out Pluto's throat. Thanx to Ruby, the good cannibal girl, Doug gets his kid back and Bobby and his violated sister booby trap Poppa Jupe and blow him up REAL good! They then shoot and axe him (gotta be sure). Finally, Mars gets bit by a snake and Doug beats him to death in a fit of rage. THE END. Oh wait, there's also a sequel... which I have been told is TERRIBLE! Well, gotta go service my female master. A.D.I.D.A.S.!

Sequels: HILLS HAVE EYES II

If You Liked This Flick, Check Out: THE TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE or DEATH VALLEY