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28 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 80Film ThreatFilm ThreatWhen Aja really starts in on the brutal slayings, he spares no one any comfort at all.
- 70The Hollywood ReporterMichael RechtshaffenThe Hollywood ReporterMichael RechtshaffenThis remake of the 1977 Wes Craven cult classic is brutally horrific. And that's a compliment.
- 70VarietyRobert KoehlerVarietyRobert KoehlerBesides proving to be a faithful mimic of Craven's filmmaking, Aja pours on the gore. But where Aja's version really leaps beyond Craven's both atmospherically and on the violence scale is in the second hour.
- 63ReelViewsJames BerardinelliReelViewsJames BerardinelliThe Hills Have Eyes gets points for gore and general creepiness, and for occasional periods of tension, but it's not scary enough to linger long in the subconscious.
- 60EmpireChris Hewitt (1)EmpireChris Hewitt (1)Fans of the original won't be disappointed, but ultimately it's just another decent, arguably unnecessary, '70s horror remake.
- 58Entertainment WeeklyOwen GleibermanEntertainment WeeklyOwen GleibermanWhere Craven and his director, Alexandre Aja, may have miscalculated is in making the genetically damaged demons, with their flesh-potato foreheads and minimal verbal skills, into monster action figures who take vengeance on the world that created them. They're not scary because they're victims themselves.
- 50Rolling StonePeter TraversRolling StonePeter TraversWhat good is a wallow in sicko sadism if you take all the fun out of it?
- 42The A.V. ClubNathan RabinThe A.V. ClubNathan RabinThanks to assured direction and a fine cast, Hills isn't terrible, only terribly unnecessary.
- 40Village VoiceMichael AtkinsonVillage VoiceMichael AtkinsonThe net effect would be doze-inducing if in fact the Dolby didn't attempt to wake the dead.
- 30L.A. WeeklyScott FoundasL.A. WeeklyScott FoundasAn orgy of bloodletting and dismemberment that's more monotonous than shocking. Aja and Levasseur are to splatter what Liberace was to rhinestones: practitioners of gaud.