THE HILLS HAVE EYES

Nestled between Wes Craven’s notorious rape-revenge LAST HOUSE ON THE LEFT (1972) and his genre-defining A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET (1984) waits his violently gritty THE HILLS HAVE EYES. And it’s a doozy. Here Craven takes the idealized American road trip and turns it into a nightmare as the Carter family encounters an attack by a mutated cannibal family who survive by preying on travelers. A heady mix of ironic allegory and seat-edge tension, this film shows that danger lurks in every corner of the great American landscape. Women, children, dogs, cannibals... no one is here is ever safe.