Such a frustrating disappointment

Please don't spend money on this.

It's an amazing and heartbreaking story.

The acting in this movie is really good.

Apparently desperately in need of money during his pre-Elm Street days, Craven agreed to write and direct this unnecessary follow-up to his 1977 cult success. After filming most - but not all - of the original script, the backers reneged and pulled funding before it could be completed, leaving the unfinished film to languish on a shelf somewhere for a spell. It wasn't until after Elm Street's success that the studio convinced Craven to finally finish it. And no, he wasn't given money to shoot the rest of the footage, he was simply left with the task of piecing together what WAS shot and then padding the rest out with "flashback" footage from the first. To tie it to the original, several cast members return to reprise their roles and the same basic premise and desert setting are retained, but the tone and the approach to the material is quite different this time out. In fact, it's almost impossible to believe the same man could possibly be responsible for both films. This sequel seems more like a second-rate cash-in made by an inept, inexperienced hack attempting to capitalize on the first film's success than an already-established filmmaker. It's no wonder Craven later disowned this film.After the opening credit scroll informs us that "The following film is based on fact" (lol, please), we briefly catch up with original "Hills" survivor Bobby Carter (Robert Houston). Still traumatized by the events of the first movie, Bobby finds himself unable to accompany his buddies across the desert to a motocross competition to test out their new "Super Formula Racing Fuel." Going in his place is his friend Rachel (Janus Blythe), who, as "Ruby," was a member of the desert-dwelling family of the first film but is now a reformed ex-cannibal after having helped the Carter family put an end to her brood's murderous ways. Or so she thinks. Along with three racers, a mechanic, a few girlfriends and "Beast," the same German Shepherd from the first movie (don't ask), Rachel / Ruby soon finds herself back in familiar territory. Running short on time, the crew decide to venture off the main road and take a shortcut, their bus breaks down near an abandoned mine and then the rest plays out like business as usual as Pluto (Michael Berryman) and Papa Jupiter's hereunto unmentioned big brother "The Reaper" (John Bloom) start picking them off one by one.Gone is the original film's intelligent subtext centered around two vastly different families clashing over harsh terrain and an ordinary, mild-mannered middle-class family forced to turn as vicious as their attackers in order to protect themselves. In its place we get a handful of obnoxious, ill-defined cardboard teenagers no one could possibly give two hoots about. While the first film was a tense, bleak survival film, this one is presented just like any number of other poorly-made slasher flicks with characters who continually do senseless and idiotic things, pitiful attempts at comedy and terrible dialogue ("You're not feeling psychic again are you like you sometimes do?"). The slasher feel is reinforced further by Harry Manfredini's rehashed music, which is nothing more than recycled bits and pieces from the Friday THE 13TH series. I could even live with all that, but this film is genuinely inept and filled with continuity errors and lapses in basic logic. It's almost mind-numbingly stupid... and the absurd moment the dog has his own flashback is really just the tip of the iceberg!Early on, Rachel has a run-in with Pluto and uses karate (!) to defend herself. Immediately afterward she's shown laughing and joking along with the rest of the cast and accusing two guys who have disappeared of "playing pranks too hard" instead of, you know, putting two and two together they may have been killed by the psycho cannibal who'd just attacked her moments earlier. After she leaves the teens in her charge to go look around, they proceed to joke, play pranks on each other and and idiotically wander off by themselves so they can get killed. The movie probably reaches its low point when one of the cannibals steals a motorcycle, slaps on a helmet and starts driving around the rock cliffs while laughing maniacally. I wasn't even sure if this was supposed to be funny or not.The murders themselves are rather tame. Someone's crushed by rocks and there are a couple of booby traps but most are just yanked off-screen and then found dead later on. The only gory moment is when one of the girls gets her throat cut and even that's not much. For what it's worth, our heroine (Tamara Stafford) ends up being a blind girl who has some kind of extrasensory perception, though the script doesn't really make novel use of that idea. The only thing this really has going for it are some nice-looking outdoor shooting locations and the underground lair the last few scenes take place in. Other than that, it's terrible.

This sequel to 'The Hill Have Eyes' might sound like good idea to a person, like myself, who had never seen it. They bring back back some familiar characters/actors from the first one, They decided to continue with the original story, Wes Craven wrote and directed it. But despite a good premise, The Hills Have Eyes Part II didn't deliver the goods. It begins with Bobby from the original who is seeing a psychiatrist to deal with his issues of seeing his family murdered. The funny thing is that his wife is Ruby who was a part of the sadistic family! That's right, Ruby, the one who helped save the baby in the original is now the wife of Bobby and has changed her name to Rachel. The rest of the plot involves a biker gang of young people (including Ruby/Rachel) who are set to go out to the desert to race; the same desert in which the events from the first movie occurred. Of course when they get there, two members of the cannibalistic family begin their attack. So that is the basic plot. That may sound alright, but there are so many details of this movie that are just plain stupid. Oh and don't get fooled by reading that the character of Bobby returns considering he was only in this sequel for the first fifteen minutes. Major disappointment there.So some other problems with part 2...first off, this feels a lot like an average slasher movie for the most part. Typical stalking scenes, a large killer with a machete, jump scares, a group of dumb teenage characters. The music used is straight out of Friday the 13th, no joke. Popularity of those films at the time clearly influenced the creation process of this sequel. There is a a blind girl in this who I wasn't sure was even blind for most of the film. She appears to see enough to dodge things such as flames and a burning mutant running after her. Another problem I have is with Ruby/Rachel. She lived with the cannibals for years but didn't recognize the area the group was exploring? How about telling them "hey let's get the hell out of here, my crazy mutant ex-family use to reside in these parts"?!Movie started pretty good and with promise bringing back original characters, but quickly turned into a joke with a motorcycle riding cannibal, a dog having flashbacks from the original, characters who seem oblivious to the fact that there are mutants in the area, a blind girl who roams around alone while cannibal killers are on the loose. Probably the most stupid characters ever created in a horror movie. One part in particular really blew my mind with stupidity. A girl decides to take a relaxing shower all while knowing there is imminent danger around her. It's like she was thinking "Hey, someone might be trying to kill us, guess I'll take a shower".There are good things about Part II like the return of Ruby/Rachel, Pluto and cameo by Bobby. The new member of the family, the reaper, was a pretty effective villain. But the stupid plot points made me shake my head way too many times for this to be a very good sequel. I love the fact that they go back to where it all started, but so many things make you go "huh" throughout the entire thing.

Terrible, terrible and terrible, Wes, what the heck. I love all of Wes Craven's films but this was just terrible. Like I have mentioned by my summary it falls off of the original in many ways. Looking at it now, there was no need for this stupid and pointless sequel.The acting is OK but the characters are dumb, Pluto is not scary, the other cannibal is not convincing, the story is just muddled and goes down hill as it continuous on, the music gets lame, the deaths are done in the worse way possible and why have we got flashbacks from the first film??? Is this supposed to cover up on how crap it is already.I know I'm bashing on this film rapidly but this was just cheap and disrespectful for how Suspenseful and,... how much of a masterpiece the 1977 film is.People complain about how terrible other horror films such as: "Seed of Chucky", "Friday the 13th Remake", "Fthe13th Pt. 8". I have seen so many crappy horror films like "Day of the Dead Remake", "Jason Goes 2 Hell" and many more but this was just poor. And i thought those films where bad.Most of Wes Craven's films are suspenseful, full of scares and absolutely excellent no matter how old they get, but this film (in my book) won't ever be remembered.I don't give this a 5, 4 or 3 out of 10. I give it a 2/10.

If you are as curious about this movie as I was I would highly recommend not wasting you're time, it kinda sucked. So instead of wasting you're time looking for it i'll save you 87 minutes by spoiling this movie completely. PART 1 A group of stupid bikers get ready to go into the the desert for a motocross competition, oh yeah one of them is blind. Bobby has a bunch of flashbacks and Ruby is now known as Rachel (she is now sibilized and pretty much normal other than THE FRIGGIN FLASHBACKS! PART 2 The kids make there way into the desert and there bus breaks down (duh duh duhhhhhhhhhhhhh) After realizing there pretty much f***ed they decide to look around. Thats when Ruby gets attacked by Pluto and kicks his a**. She then claims to the kids that she is the now legendary Ruby.Pluto takes off on one of the bikes. Two of the idiots go catch him, they catch him he surrenders. But one of the kids falls into one of the family's traps and is killed by the reaper (papa jupes big bro.). PART 3 3 more kids are killed and ruby hits her head on a rock (you never find out what happened to her) The blind chick and one other survivor burn the reaper to death. Feel free to email me at moviefreak372333@yahoo.com