List of Mutants in The Hills Have Eyes

The Mutants, or Hill People, are the main antagonists of the The Hills Have Eyes remake film series. The Mutants are deformed outcasts, created through radiation poisoning.

The teaser trailers and prologue of the 2006 remake of The Hills Have Eyes, as well as newspaper clippings seen in the film and dialogue from mutant character Big Brain, reveals that the Mutants are the way they are due to radiation. Sometime in the fifties during the Cold War, the American government forced the populace of a New Mexico mining town off their land to perform nuclear testing in the area, unaware that the towns inhabitants fled to the nearby mines, where they were exposed to radiation given off by the atomic bombs being tested. Subsequent generations of these miners were born as malformed Mutants.

The graphic novel, The Hills Have Eyes: The Beginning expands upon this origin, revealing that only some of the miners gave birth to Mutants; those that did were driven from the nuclear testing village the miners inhabited after the government stopped testing in the area, and sent back into the mines to live a meager existence on supplies sold to them by a nearby gas station owner named Jeb. When Jeb became unable to supply the Mutants any longer, the Mutants' leader, Karen Sawney Bean, made a deal with him; Jeb would trick anyone who ventured to his gas station into going into the Mutants' territory, where they would be killed and eaten, with any valuables they had being given to Fred and his family to sell. Soon after Karen Sawney Bean died, her son, Hades, became the Mutants' leader. The Mutants, led by Hades, attacked the nearby nuclear testing village sometime after Karen's death, killing everyone in it and taking it as their own.

In the first The Hills Have Eyes, a vacationing family known as the Carters, were tricked into travelling through the Mutants' domain by Jeb, where they managed to kill almost every member of a clan of Mutants; though two of the four surviving members of the Carter family were subsequently killed by the Mutants, two others managed to escape and were found by police, who they informed about the Mutants.

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