| The Hills Have Eyes Part II | |
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| Directed by | Wes Craven |
| Produced by | Pete Locke |
| Written by | Wes Craven |
| Starring | Michael Berryman Janus Blythe Kevin Spirtas John Bloom Tamara Stafford |
| Music by | Harry Manfredini |
| Cinematography | David Lewis |
| Editing by | Richard Bracken |
| Distributed by | Anchor Bay Entertainment (UK Home Video rights) Image Entertainment (US Home Video rights) Home Box Office |
| Release date(s) | August 9, 1985 |
| Running time | 86 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $1 million |
The Hills Have Eyes Part II is a 1985 American horror film and the sequel to the 1977 classic, The Hills Have Eyes.
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The film opens with Bobby, one of the survivors from the first film and his psychiatrist discussing when Papa Jupiter tried to kill him and Brenda eight years ago. Bobby is still disturbed by the events in the first film, but he and Rachel (the daughter of Papa Jupiter who betrayed her family, used to be called Ruby but has changed her name) now own a biker team. Bobby and Ruby have also invented a super fuel that can power bikes, but the team is due to race in the desert where the original massacre took place. Bobby's psychiatrist tries to convince him to go, but Bobby decides against it. Rachel takes his place and the team consisting of the blind Cass, her boyfriend Roy, Harry, Hulk, Foster, Sue and Jane meet up at a bus and set off. Along the way, they pick up Beast, the dog from the first one who now belongs to Rachel.
Going through the desert, they get lost and Harry suggests a shortcut through the bombing range. As they drive, the bus begins leaking petrol. However, the bus arrives at an old mining ranch in a new area unseen in the first film. As they explore the mine, Pluto, who survived his attack from Beast in the previous film, jumps Rachel. She fends him off though and he retreats. No one believes her at first but then Pluto returns and steals one of their bikes. Roy and Harry give chase although Harry falls behind, gets caught in a trap and is flattened by a massive rock. Roy catches Pluto but is ambushed by a 7-foot cannibal called the Reaper and knocked out, but is still alive. The Reaper is revealed to be Papa Jupiter's big brother later on.
Meanwhile, the rest of the group stay at the mine until nightfall, at which time they begin to get worried for Roy and Harry. Rachel and Hulk depart to look for them while the others stay put. The Reaper then begins to stalk the remaining teens. First Hulk, who he shoots through the chest with a spear bolt, leaving Rachel to run around. She briefly runs into Pluto, but Beast surprises him and chases him away. She then runs into the Reaper again and is killed.
The Reaper then returns to the mine, where he pulls Foster under the bus and kills him with a hatchet. Jane finds Foster's body but the Reaper catches her and crushes her in a bearhug before slitting her throat with a machete, leaving only Cass.
Meanwhile, Roy wakes up and runs into Pluto at the top of a cliff. Pluto gets ready to attack Roy but Beast returns and knocks him off the cliff, killing him.
Cass runs from the Reaper and ends up in his special mineshaft. She throws a jar of acid at his face and escapes up a rope with help from Roy. The Reaper follows them but they trap him in the bus where all the bike fuel is. They set it on fire and watch as it blows up. The Reaper escapes from the wreckage with flames all over his body and tries one more time to kill them but stumbles down into an open mineshaft, leading to his death.
Roy, Cass, and Beast walk away from the mine into the vast desert and follow the road home.
The film sequel did poorly at the box office. Wes Craven claims that he did this film because he was in need of money and since then, has disowned it[1] and its followup, Mind Ripper, also known as The Hills Have Eyes III.
The film received four rotten reviews on rotten tomatoes. Rob Gonsalves thought that Craven threw away everything that made the first film shocking and relevant, while Ken Hanke felt that it was just a minor classic. It holds a 45% rating from the fans.
The film is infamous for a scene that involves the dog, Beast, who survived the original The Hills Have Eyes, having a flashback.
In the US Image Entertainment first released the film on November 17th, 2002 containing the film in a terrible full frame transfer. As of 2011, it's now out of print. Redemption and Kino will release a Remastered Edition of the film on Blu-ray and DVD on March 30th, 2012.[2] Specifications and extras are yet to be announced, but it is believed the film will be presented in its original widescreen ratio for the first time in the US. In the UK, Anchor Bay released the film available as an individual release and in a box set with The Hills Have Eys and The Hills Have Eyes 3: Mindripper and presents the film in widescreen.
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