The Hills Have Eyes movies

I'd have to agree with Re-animator's post in that The Hill Have Eyes remake is superior to the original. It's extremely grizzly and disturbing, but never descends into 'torture porn' like Hostel and it's ilk. The caravan sequence (you know the one I mean) is one of the more effective horror scenes in recent years in my opinion. Aja really set his stall out with that sequence, like he was saying 'I'm taking you out of your comfort zone and not letting you back in until my movie has finished, because there's nothing I'm scared to show you'. I remember thinking 'I'm watching a real horror movie here', but sadly the film went downhill from there when the nerdy one went all Bruce Campbell. Still better than Craven's version, which I've never rated.

As for Saw, I agree the original is a modern classic; I'm not a fan, but can see it's a very good horror movie.

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As far as these movies go, I give the original Hills a low , but I've never seen the "sequel" or remake. But if UF says the remake's pretty good, maybe I'll try to watch it with my brother. I've still never seen any Saw movies, but maybe I'll watch the first one. I'm not avoiding them because I'm squeamish since that's never been the case. I just have to choose the films I spend my time and money on, plus I'm also trying to give my about-to-turn-18-year-old daughter a film education. Therefore, I showed her Bergman's The Virgin Spring and told her that Wes Craven remade it as The Last House on the Left and didn't do that good a job, and yes, now there's a remake of that too. Sarah can watch those if she feels the need, but she's already seen the painful, poetic original, so I feel I've done my best with that story.

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Agreed on all points. I also enjoyed the remake much more than the original. In fact, I actually wasn't a big fan of the original at all but I like the new Hills Have Eyes considerably, and perhaps even consider it an upper-tier favorite horror film of mine. All of the sequels (both the sequels to the original and the new sequel to the remake) aren't nearly as good, although they contain some very cool-looking mutants.

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the first remake was good. didn't happen to catch the second one. the girl from the first one who survived, emilie de ravin, was she in the second one at all? i saw that she has a movie coming out, but was curious to see if they continued the characters and the story

I was an original fan of the original, seeing it at the cinema back in the 70s, and also think the remake was excellent. It's hard saying which is the better film though cos you're judging two films made 30 years apart with all the technical advancements made in film not to mention the way that socially people have got much more used to seeing full on explicit horror. You can't 'get' the horror we felt seeing those mutant people for the first time, it was pretty scary y'know!

No, she's not. A completely new cast is present in the remake's sequel.