The Hills Have Eyes 2 (2007)

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CinemaSource

Studio: Fox Atomic

Rating: R

Release Date: Mar 23, 2007

Running Time: 89 mins.

Country Of Origin: United States

starring: Jessica Stroup, Reshad Strik, Michael McMillian, Daniella Alonso, Lee Thompson Young, Ben Crowley, Eric Edelstein, Michael Bailey Smith, David Reynolds VII, Derek Mears

director: Martin Weisz

The Hills Have Eyes 2

What started with the Carter family, clearly didn't end with the Carter family. Some time later, as part of a routine mission, a unit of National Guard soldiers stop at a New Mexican outpost only to find the isolated research camp mysteriously deserted. After spotting a distress signal in a distant mountain range, the team decides to commence a search and rescue mission into the hills. Little do they know that these are the very hills that the ill-fated Carter family once visited, and that a tribe of cannibalistic mutants lies in wait. And this time, there is an even larger force of evil at work that is intent on the soldiers' very destruction.

Rather than turning a videogame into a film, Hills Have Eyes 2 feels more like a movie that should have just been made as a shoot-'em-up game.

Story

The National Guard is called out for a routine desert exercise in Yuma Flats, where nuclear experiments once took place. The team of young and often naive recruits set out in the heat, and they all have nicknames, such as Crank (Jacob Vargas), Stump (Ben Crowley), Spitter (Eric Edelstein), Mickey (Reshad Strik)and the resident hunk, Napoleon…