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Directed by | Alexandre Aja |
Produced by |
Wes Craven Peter Locke Marianne Maddalena Cody Zwieg |
Screenplay by | Alexandre Aja Grégory Levasseur |
Based on |
The Hills Have Eyes by Wes Craven |
Starring |
Aaron Stanford Kathleen Quinlan Vinessa Shaw Emilie de Ravin Dan Byrd Robert Joy Ted Levine |
Music by |
Tomandandy François-Eudes Chanfrault |
Cinematography | Maxime Alexandre |
Edited by | Baxter |
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Dune Entertainment
Major Studio Partners |
Distributed by | Fox Searchlight Pictures |
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Running time
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106 Minutes |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Budget | $15 million |
Box office | $69.6 million |
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Film score by Various | ||||
Released | March 7, 2006 | |||
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Length | 70:14 | |||
Label | Lakeshore Records 33852 | |||
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The Hills Have Eyes is a 2006 American horror film and 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 that is targeted by a group of murderous mutants after their car breaks down in the desert.
The film was released theatrically in the United States and United Kingdom on March 10, 2006. It earned $15.5 million 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.
A group of scientists are killed by a mutant named Pluto (Michael Bailey Smith). Later, Bob Carter (Ted Levine) and his wife, Ethel Carter (Kathleen Quinlan) are traveling from Cleveland, Ohio to San Diego, California for their silver anniversary. With them are their teenage children Bobby (Dan Byrd) and Brenda (Emilie de Ravin), their eldest daughter Lynn (Vinessa Shaw), Lynn's husband Doug Bukowski (Aaron Stanford), Lynn and Doug's baby daughter Catherine (Maisie Camilleri Preziosi), and their German Shepherds Beauty and Beast.