The Hills Have Eyes 2 (2007) - Movie Review
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- After the success of the remake, we got The Hills Have Eyes 2 the very next year. Does this sequel capitalize on the success of the remake or is this another disappointing follow-up?
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“Shit man the barbarian, I have no idea”😂😂😂😂😂😂 my favorite line in the whole movie
Same lol
I had the opportunity to work as a Grip on an upcoming project that Derek Mears is involved in. I didn't know it was him until I looked at the call sheet. On a day I had off, I came back to the set when I knew they'd have lunch, I saw Derek n told him how he's my favorite Jason. He was so humble and excited by that, he went to talk about how he loves the fans, especially the horror ones. Overall, pretty cool experience and shows how cool Derek is 🙌
That's awesome!
I can vouch for that. I've met Derek several times and he is awesome.
I met him at a convention without initially knowing who he was. We walked down the hallway together and had a very casual conversation. Super chill guy.
@@vincentwood3450had the same thing happen with an astronaut at a nasa convention lmao. My dad and I talked to that guy for like 30-45 mins, guy goes "Oops I'm late, gotta go" then gets on fucking stage and starts giving a speech to everyone. I was baffled lmao
I imagine an actual Hills Have Eyes franchise would literally just be Wrong Turn but in the desert instead of the woods.
That's basically what all four of these movies ended up being. Personally, I've never been into the out of nowhere hillbilly cannibal side of horror. The only reason movies like the original Hills Have Eyes or Texas Chainsaw made an impact is because no one had ever seen that kind of horror up until then and usually it's to give some kind of biting commentary on America at that time. Whenever Hollywood dose try to make a franchise out something like that it falls apart.
I would love to see The Hills Have Eyes mutants fighting The Wrong Turn cannibals on some neutral ground, so nobody is on his territory. Let's say they finally got captured and placed in the same facility [army lab?] something goes wrong, they escape into some local town like that one from Rambo 1, hunting each other and of course respectful members of the town's population.
This one felt exactly like one of the later crappy wrong turn sequels
Hills have eyes made good survivor characters, but wrong turn has the better mutants
@@blaizeadisek4376 nah there wasnt a big sex scene with like 3 sets of titties in the opening act in the movie
Am I the only person who wants a Hills have Eyes 3?
Meeeeeee
@@Matt.Savage I thought 2 was better also
@@Matt.Savage That's because most people automatically think original are always better except only for Terminator 2..
@@laurarules3642 only the first 2 wrong turn movies
@@laurarules3642 Wrong Turn is garbage.
Fun fact - The tough Latina marine in this is the same actress that plays the tough Latina marine character in Wrong Turn 2. Both films came out the same year, both are about people trying not to get killed by deformed weirdo’s and both have the same actress playing pretty much the same role!
Nuts!
I always liked this movie. I'm not ashamed to admit it. I always really liked the cast 💯❤️💖
I loved it too! Derek Mears as a mutant and Michael Bailey Smith returning is just wow!
I love this movie, despite its major flaws. I would recommend the Graphic Novel The Hill Have Eyes: The Beginning, it’s prequel, it delves deeper into what happened. I love the original plan for the sequel, Brenda joins the military and her first mission is at the same dessert where her family was massacred.
stupd, corny, unrealistic and cringe this movie is… no common sense! like that missy bch goes to pee alone… pssy soldiers, like why join the army then?! The whole thing Just pissed me off !
I love this movie too. It's fun
I loved this one as much as the remake I always go back and watch these 2 movies
What's strange is that Wes Craven wrote this movie.
Wow I had to look it up cause I was surprised but you’re right. Co written with his son Jonathan who hasn’t written since. Yea I love how Wes surprises us, 1984 he makes two forgettable films and then Nightmare on Elm Street. Does it again 12 years later in 1996 flopping with the underrated classic Vampire in Brooklyn only to blow audiences away with Scream. Thanks for sharing!
I remember watching the trailer for this. Was hyped to see what they were going do with the sequel! Was disappointed didn’t expect the national military squad to be part of the plot.
Could’ve been better if the military wasn’t involved. Only good thing about the sequel was the trailer. Great review!
Agreed Cody. The Hills Have Eyes SHOULD have been a one and done.
I disagree
@@busdriverguy How so? What direction would you have gone in?
@@Merit2397 I mean it was a better sequel than the original sequel imo. I would've added more cannibals and traps, I also know my army lingo so I would improve all that stuff but it was still a fun watch. It's not good but its a solid caniball movie and they utilize the hills this time fr
@@busdriverguy If you like these movies that's fine. I can't because the remake and its sequel take people who are born with real life disabilities and turn them into monsters. At least in the original the cannibal's disfigurement came from something else and the other actor that had a real-life disfigurement did it because it was his choice rather than hiring someone off the street and putting makeup on them.
@@Merit2397 I mean, acting is acting. They wanted something that stood out from the old ones while trying to keep the same story. One of the masks worn is the same mold as the goonies and toxic avenger mask so its not the only film series to have people act like they have disabilities. It just seems to me that you're too gentle to watch a movie like that. It might be a little too much for you, which is okay.
Hell yeah, you finally reviewed it! Can't wait to see which film is next!
I loved this sequel, sure wasn't the best, but was good enough and kept me intrigued.
Thanks for doing Serpent and the rainbow!!! Not sure if it was my request awhile back that made ya do it but its appreciated!!! Love the content been watching for 5 years now! Keep it up!
This is what they wrote in 1994 to be the third movie
I agree with that list of movies you gave with the rape bullshit. Watched this once and never cared for it. Really liked the first remake
I love what you said about that type of abuse in horror. I just can't with those scenes, I'll always skip that part in a movie, if I've seen it once, and sometimes that was too many. Happy to hear, I'm not alone in that. Cheers! I'm new to the channel and have been bingeing all your videos. I love it man!
I remember seeing this in high school and being so excited because of how much I loved the remake. This was the first film I went to see in a theatre where I genuinely felt robbed of my money and time by going to see it
Interesting to note that just over 3 months after this second movie came out, they was a graphic novel called The Hills have Eyes: The Beginning which serves as a prequel to the first movie.
I think this movie was pretty fun nothing groundbreaking but still a fun time
The Wrong Turn but on the desert. That brunette even had one of the major roles in the 2nd one. And she was in the army too, not on screen but mentioned that she was in Iraq.
I LOooVE The Serpant and the Rainbow. That movie scared the shit out of me when I was younger.
It takes a few liberties from the source material, but taken on its own, it friggin rules. Crazy underrated.
Love it too!
I think Serpentand the Rainbow and People under the stairs are my favorite Wes Craven movies for sure.
@@novemberkiller2641 My favorites are Nightmare on Elm St. & Scream, but these 2 are right behind.
I like those ones too. My favorite Nightmare is part 2.
The rape scene killed it for me,1st remake was much better. Still felt like they were both wrong turn knock offs. Rest well Wes Craven.
Technically The Hills Have Eyes came out before Wrong Turn
Hell yeah Cody i can't wait to see your revisited review of High Tension 🙌 😍
I love your t shirt Cody !!!! I was picturing Jim Carrey saying the line for 15 secs before it hit me ! Ace Ventura 😁❤️
Me too ;) Sean Young was perfect in that role.
Yess for Serpent and the Rainbow!! I just rewatched it after it first came out on VHS. Can't wait!!!!
The white blonde girl was an awesome final girl.. loved her performance
Thanks for spoiling the movie
fantastic work, always love your content!
Hey Cody remember me I Super Chatted with you and Sean over the weekend you got me to get Resident Evil 4! Love you HORROR CHANNEL keep up the hard work man! :)
HHE2 I kind of enjoyed it seeing the military take on the Mutants but some dumb decisions were made by these trainees tbh
And yea no character building didn't really help !
Thanks for the review stay safe Bro
Love from the UK
They were weekend warriors national guard 😂. This exactly what would happen in real life.
Flex Alexander is a comedian. He stepped out of his element as an Army commander. But I still liked the movie.
I actually find this sequel entertaining to watch, I will admit it does have issues, but I like it.
I agree it does have its issues but I think 🤔 at least they tried something different to me it was different seeing how other people lived I imagined these were miners who were affected by the radiation ☢️ I wanted them to make a three so it would be a trilogy I wouldn’t have mind if we saw other group of cannibals to show other groups or families that were affected by the radiation’s
Nice Superbowl topical shirt, sir.
So Mears is playing a cannibal Ben Grimm?
Rip Lee Thompson Young. He also played Cyborg on Smallville
Literally going to go to every video of yours and like it for the algorithm. Lol you should be bigger. Definitely one of my favorite TH-cam channels
If you're not watching the video that won't help. 😬 I appreciate the thought though.
Lol it’s the thought that counts. But no, been binge watching. Batman review series are great 👍🏼
I'm always laughed at when I say Derek Mears is my favorite Jason Voorhees. I don't understand it. He was a terrifying presence in it. And he ran and dispatched his victims like a skilled hunter. We need MORE of that Jason. The only thing I didn't like was the hair and the mask was too small I think.
Yeah I get you but if you think about it like this, hockey players tend to quite big. If a hockey mask is too small for jason, how big is the rest of him? It's like him putting on a kids Halloween mask just to hide his deformities, hes trying to hide from people bullying him
Ah...Jacob Vargas ....Joker from Next Friday. Never knew his name until you mentioned it. He was in Devil M. Night Shyamalan movie. He wasn't loud at all. 😆
Biggest mistake this movie made was not hiring Alexandre Aja as director
next month I will be signing up for your patreon, not because i necessarily need to get early access and the exclusive videos.. but stricly to support your channel. i will be paying the full year upfront at the 5$ a month tier
Good man, I hope others follow your lead.
What are your Top 20 Favorite Video Game Characters of All Time, Cody Leach?
"Shitman the barbarian " best writing ever!!
Aside from Derek Mears, the only other person who I recognize was Danielle Alonso, who had a recurring role in Season 2 of One Tree Hill.
She was also in Wrong Turn 2
I think the guy climbing out of the shitter wasn't climbing out before cause the hill people would see him and only climbed out then cause he realized there was other people, but he definitely should have heard them when they showed up and not while he was shitting
The rape scene was extremely unsettling to watch as a female viewer like another level of disgust
I saw that scene as a kid & I’ve never watched it since. I’m not typically a Pearl clutcher whenever it comes to horror, but that was simply disgusting & unnecessary
The sex stuff is what turns me off; everything else is wonderful!
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I actually really liked the 2007 one. I thought it was pretty badass. I like how a bunch of soldiers are the antagonists, they bring guns to the party. The remake from 2006 is better, but this 2nd one is pretty damn good and memorable too. I say don't skip it folks, give it a chance.
I need that shirt!!! One of my favorites!!
I’m a veteran. I cringed at the national guard characters
The call signs killed my soul lmao and on what planet in the universe are kevlar straps that prestine and new lmfao
Jacob Vargas was the Hispanic actor he also played Montez in seasons 6 and 7 of Sons of Anarchy
I thought this was an ok sequel to the remake. It has a few moment's in it for sure but I like the first one way more. There's something's I liked about this sequel and something's I thought could've been done way better. There's also thing's I didn't like about this sequel at all. Overall though it's ok and I pretty much agree with your review.
See, I watched the unrated version of the remake & this sequel… I needed a shower afterwards, I felt violated by them & needed to wash them off me!
I’ve only seen this once and it was years ago but I remember hating it.
I was in the Army when this came out, was hyped to see it because I loved the remake and the teaser trailer with the song Insect Eyes seemed promising. However, this film had many flaws and was very disappointing.
stupd, corny, unrealistic and cringe this movie is… no common sense! like that missy bch goes to pee alone… pssy soldiers, like why join the army then?! The whole thing Just pissed me off !
That shirt! Where did you purchase such a garment?
I remember I saw this while I was in the military. I couldn't get past the fact they didn't even try to make it look like they have plates in their vests
You mean The Famous Jett Jackson. 😉 Funny you mentioned Disney Channel as earlier in my list of videos for today was the latest post from Christy Carlson Romano. Yeah, Ren Stevens and Kim Possible has a TH-cam channel if you didn't know. As for this movie, it's been awhile since I've seen it, but I remember liking it FAR more than the original Hills Have Eyes 2.
I didnt even remember that I had seen this until I watched this review so that tells you everything right there lol
“Stop them!” Well, they already did LOL! There hasn’t been a Hills Have Eyes movie for 15 years!? Oh & btw, when I saw the movie I thought the guy was hiding in the shit hole, & that’s why he only came out when the other soldiers arrived. I haven’t seen it in a long long time, so I don’t know how much sense this actually makes, but that’s what I thought.
Thank you for sharing that perspective! I feel like they briefly say he was cut up and stuffed in there to slowly die from “Pathogens” that’s the thing l never forgot about this movie, I agree with Cody it’s totally crazy but that’s why I think it worked. As much as anything worked in HHE2.
@@Broco1L Ahh ok thanks for clearing that up.
Amazing shirt!
Its cool you dont like women being assaulted, i have the same issue with it.
I'm sorry if this sounds like a dumb question, and I don't mean or intend to pressure you, but will you be reviewing Red Eye? It was made by Wes Craven.
For anyone who hasn't seen this movie, I recommend that you go and look up the trailer to the Hills Have Eyes 2 ...It's actually better than the movie itself.
In a way I wish that they had continued The Hills Have Eyes franchise. I just think that it would have struggled amongst the likes of the Wrong Turn franchise, but it still would have been nice to see
There was no Disney channel when I was little but that's beside the point when I first saw it the beginning I got excited and then it down hill. I agree with you and thank you for your review.
Ironically Disney Channel star Lee Thompson Young stars in the film
Shocked you didn’t notice one or two piss poor green screen shots. Not many but they stick out so hard.
the remake is good better then the original movie,this sequel however is forgettable,i would definately rewatch it over the original films thou
"Laces out!"
The rape was overly gruesome
I can't remember if the film made clear that the mutants from this are related to the ones from the 1st film or if they're another group who were exposed to radiation on the nuclear testing site.
It begs the question, where were these mutants in the first movie??
The reason the script is so flawed is Wes Craven and his son Jonathan Craven wrote it in one month.
This was filmed in summer 2006 the same year the remake came out
I really like this one it was pretty badass
I was never issued plates for my vest CONUS besides ntc and OCONUS
RIP Lee Thompson Young
Hi Cody I'm a new subscriber and really enjoy your reviews !;
Jeepers creepers was your best review hands down !!
Interesting, I’ll have to watch that one thank you, love the whole trilogy and excited for a 4th installment.
@@Broco1L Your welcome
I watched the remake and the sequel once. I remember more scenes from the remake than I do this one.
I enjoyed reading the in-between prequel comic The Hills Have Eyes:The Beginning which is far more better than this disappointment
Incredible shirt
I know how you feel bro, I can't watch law abiding citizen unless I skip the first couple of minutes because I can't stand what happens to his wife and his daughter, that s*** bugs me I agree with you, I don't even know why they throw those scenes in there , I get the idea if they just explain it I don't need to actually see it, that s*** it kills me bro. literally my worst nightmare
I feel like L.A.C. has an alternate ending but I can’t remember if Gerard Butlers character has more success. It’s weird cause I really want to Root for Gerard Butler instead of the good guy Jamie Foxx. A thought provoking film thank you for referencing and I agree with you and Cody, that stuff always diminishes my enjoyment.
I'm not that big on the remake (truthfully, the original Wes Craven film is the only one I like) but it's a lot better than this, as this is just a generic, trashy, nasty slasher movie that brings nothing new to the table. I will agree with you, though, that Lee Thompson Young is a highlight. I grew up on Disney Channel as well and watched a lot of Jett Jackson, so I was pleasantly surprised when I saw him in this. And yeah, it sucks that his life ended as tragically as it did, as he had a lot of charisma and presence.
Also, what really sucks about the writing being so bad is that it was written by Craven and his son, Jonathan. God knows what they were thinking with this.
I’ve been wanting to get involved in TH-cam and do my own channel on movie rankings. How do you get started?
Well Cody would know better than I but I’d suggest watch/think about a franchise you like and record your thoughts using your cellphone or laptop then edit it for extra professionalism or just upload as is and move on to ranking a different franchise. There’s no wrong way but articulating your thoughts clearly helps, Cody’s got a gift for that.
You know, there's an Australian horror movie that came out in 2008 which is similar to The Hills Have Eyes and Wrong Turn. It's called 'Dying Breed'.
Is it any good?
@@EnchantedTooWell Yeah. I've watched and enjoyed it a few times.
It was OK but I was slightly disappointed as the remake is one of my all time fav Horror films! In part 1 you genuinely care for the family so when some r murdered u feel their loss! I didn't give a shit about the soldiers! So didnt really care of they died!x
I forgot about this movie 😂 good review
Yes septic was the main motive of that kill. Fuckin gruesome
Right!? Love it!
With Last House on the Left the rape story works because the movie wants you to root for the parents to get revenge but also in the end see that revenge really doesn't change anything at least that was the idea with the original Last House in concept. Similar with the OG Hills have Eyes your supposed to root for the family to get revenge and kill them with this sequel though the rape stuff goes on to long and is overly done making it feel gratuitous and not justified in the plot.
Bro The famous Jet Jackson was my shit! Back when Disney had solid shows
Yea I had no idea, that was so sad. You gotta let people know how much you care about them cause tomorrow’s not promised.
@@Broco1L Most definitely, sometimes a simple check in or an I love you can help. But then again there are different levels of depression, especially because of the field of work he was in since a CHILD
100% agreed Thank you Jaelen
This should have had a different ending not a repeat of "You thought they killed the whole cannibal family but oh no there are more of them."
There is an alternate ending on TH-cam
I’d like to see Cody review
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Has he really not reviewed any of these? Did you check that? I know he at least did Dragged Across Concrete.
Honestly, this is very much the performance and competency you should expect from the National Guard
Never seen this movie. Just liking for the Ace Ventura shirt. 😄
Laces Out!
Love you're ace venture t shirt
the military was a good idea, just not done good. Dereck Meyers is a 🐐, yes cody !!
Agreed, great potential poor execution, they kinda tried this in Leprechaun 4: In Space. Jason Goes to Hell/Jason X a little bit but besides Predator or Dog Soldiers we rarely getting an elite force, like the Michael Bay Texas Chainsaw remake, I think, you get excited for a protagonist with military training but never seems to make them more capable then everyday citizens.
They literally did alien 1 and 2 as far as having the military battle in part 2
Great point, I hadn’t thought about that thank you!
As a guy in the national guard, that fat guy and mexican guy were on point. The sgt was terrible tho lmao
The premise was great but the "soldiers" were just skinny little cosplaying girls and boys, a total joke.
The one chick with the daughter singing on her phone idk her name but she was in Wrong turn 2
I like her character
I like the Mexican dude too he was funny asf in next Friday
I actually liked most of the characters but it does bug me how damn incompetent they made the soldiers like dude they have guns they trained why tf can’t they land a shot or kill any of the mutants
Annoying but I still enjoy the movie
Entertaining enough to watch every now and then
U rule Cody!
Love your channel man especially your horror reviews
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Her name is Daniella Alonso
None of the points you made are wrong, but i still get way more enjoyment out of this movie than I do the new TCM on Netflix. Love that you mention the guy coming out of the toilet scene… that was so ridiculous 🤣
Shitman barbarian. Lol wtf
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In real life the soldiers would have just dug in and whacked these mutations as they came out. The mutants wouldn’t stand a chance
Didn’t Jet Jackson play in Friday night lights too?
You know it's bad when the teaser trailer/poster are better than the actual movie.