The Hills Have Eyes is a
2006 remake of
Wes Craven's 1977 film of the same name. Written by filmmaking partners
Alexandre Aja and Grégory Levasseur of the French horror film
Haute Tension, and directed by Aja, the film follows a family who becomes the target of a group of mutants after their car breaks down in the desert.
The Hills Have Eyes stars
Aaron Stanford as
Doug Bukowski,
Emilie de Ravin as
Brenda Carter,
Ted Levine as
Big Bob Carter,
Dan Byrd as
Bobby Carter - part of the terrorized family. It also stars
Billy Drago as
Papa Jupiter,
Robert Joy as
Lizard,
Michael Bailey Smith as
Pluto, and
Laura Ortiz as
Ruby - part of the clan of mutants.
The film was released theatrically in the
United States and
United Kingdom on
March 10,
2006. It earned
$15,500,000 in its opening weekend in the U.S., where it was originally rated
NC-17 for strong gruesome violence, but was later edited down to an R-rating. An unrated DVD version was released on
June 20,
2006. A sequel,
The Hills Have Eyes 2, was released in theaters
March 23,
2007.