The Hills Have Eyes (franchise)
The poster of the original film
The Hills Have Eyes is an American horror franchise that consist of four slasher films, and a graphic novel.[1][2] The films focus on a group of people stranded in a desert who become hunted by a clan of deformed cannibals in the surrounding hills.
Films
Overview
In the first film, a family on a road trip becomes stranded in the Nevada desert become hunted by a clan of deformed cannibals in the surrounding hills. While The Hills Have Eyes Part II (1985) has the same setting and concept as the original film, but it has a variety of new characters. The Hills Have Eyes (2006) follows the same story as the original film. The Hills Have Eyes 2 follows several heroic, but troubled, U.S. National Guardsmen as they fight for survival against the mutant people living in a military base in New Mexico.
Box Office
| Film |
Release date (US) |
Budget |
Box office revenue |
Reference |
|---|
| United States |
Foreign |
Worldwide |
| The Hills Have Eyes (1977) |
July 22, 1977 |
$230,000 |
$25,000,000 |
N/A |
$25,000,000 |
[3] |
| The Hills Have Eyes II |
January 1985 |
$700,00 |
N/A |
N/A |
N/A |
|
| The Hills Have Eyes (2006) |
March 10, 2006 |
$15,000,000 |
$41,778,863 |
$27,844,850 |
$69,623,713 |
[4] |
| The Hills Have Eyes 2 |
March 23, 2007 |
$15,000,000 |
$37,405,247 |
$16,662,372 |
$37,405,247 |
[5] |
| Total |
$38,930,000 |
$66,584,110 |
$44,507,222 |
$132,028,960 |
|
Literature
Graphic novel
The Hills Have Eyes 2 was accompanied with the release of the graphic novel, The Hills Have Eyes: The Beginning.
The Hills Have Eyes: The Beginning tells for the first time the epic origin story behind Wes Craven's classic tale of mutant carnage, leading into and bridging the gap between the 2006 remake of The Hills Have Eyes and its sequel, The Hills Have Eyes 2. Written by acclaimed storytellers Jimmy Palmiotti (Painkiller Jane) and Justin Gray (Countdown) with shocking art by John Higgins (Judge Dredd, War Stories), this is mutant mayhem as you've never seen it before.[6]
Reviews
| Film |
Rotten Tomatoes |
| The Hills Have Eyes |
64% |
| The Hills Have Eyes Part II |
0% |
| The Hills Have Eyes |
49% |
| The Hills Have Eyes 2 |
11% |
Future
When asked if there will be another The Hills Have Eyes film, Craven said, “There’s discussion about a possible Hills 3 and we’ll take it in a totally different direction. I’m not interested in doing straight-to-video. If it can’t make it in theaters then…” he explained, “There are a lot of good movies still in that concept, you know and I’d like to flip it actually and have them integrated a little into our society and run into prejudice or something…because they have this ability to survive anything, maybe be recruited by the society that’s about to throw them out.“[7]
References
External links
- Films
