The Hills Have...Glaucoma

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So I decided to sit down last night and watch a copy of the new remake of The Hills Have Eyes. I'm always weary of 70's horror remakes and I'd already heard some bad stuff about this movie. Suprisingly, it's quite watchable. I'm not saying I'd shell out $20 for the DVD...but it's worth a rental at Cockbuster. However, there are some nearly fatal defects:

- In no way will this ever stack up to Wes Craven's original...period.

- The guy who directed it also directed "High Tension", a movie so bad it literally made me want to lapse into a coma. Normally bad movies get better with a little alcohol. That one got worse.

- Too many 70's horror genre cliche's. The only way it could've been more cliched is if one of the families had been named Hill ("the Hills" have eyes...get it?).

- As with High Tension, all suspense is nearly destroyed. There's always that shadow that runs right in front of the camera when the music starts to get creepy or the movement in your peripheral. Even if you don't know what's going to happen, you know something's about to. You also see the crazy people's faces too much. It sort of takes away some of the mystery.