Male, British, ex-RAF. Is anyone else experiencing REALLY bad lag in the review text box at the mome...
Male, British, ex-RAF. Is anyone else experiencing REALLY bad lag in the review text box at the moment? Its so bad I have stopped writing & editing reviews completely. Can't Ciao fix this?
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I've not seen the original so I won't be comparing this to that. Apart from the minor scare and the guy killing the 2 scientists at the start this is really boring for a very VERY long time. The travellers dog gets killed (we see nothing apart from it's body) and then not much happens. We're almost 40 mins into the film where their truck is sabotaged by the hill people (they use a stinger on it) and then lots of not much happens.
The dad of the family walks back to the truck stop and the son-in-law finds a vehicle graveyard in a crater (and really should have sussed what was happening by then, it's totally obvious). The truck stop owner kills himself and the dad of the family is caught by the hill people and things actually finally start to happen. The son-in-law returns to the camper and the families second dog is taken (which should make them really suspicious but doesn't?).
There's a major goof where one of the hill people gets into the trailer (we clearly saw the people LOCK it from the inside, so I'm sorry but NOT GOING TO HAPPEN!). Even after they set fire to the dad to distract the others away from the camper (like it needs 3 people to go check out a fire) not much happens. The hill people trash the trailer, they "rape" one of the girls (even though you see nothing - it's implied) and finally someone goes back to check on the screaming. Was that Hill guy breastfeeding off that girl? That child looked a little bit too old to still be breastfeeding so I think they got that very wrong.
Mum of the family is shot, the girl he breastfed off is shot and killed. Still not really a lot happening. If it's a suspense thriller then it's really heavy on suspense and very light on thrills.
Amazingly mum isn't dead from being shot at such close range by a Magnum. One of the hill people loses an arm and the 2nd dog comes back alive and unharmed and the remaining campers find a radio the hill people were using. Come the dawn the son-in-law takes the dog to search for his abducted baby which the hill people took during the night raid. The brother and sister of the family set up tripwires to protect themselves by the camper and the son-in-law finds the old miners town camp.
Even when the son in law is caught in the house by the hill people there's lots of talking and not much action. Even during a fight sequence which Wes Craven probably thought was action. When the boy follows the blood trail, he has ample time to pull his gun and kill the guy eating his sister but he chooses to fire wildly behind him, wasting his rounds like an idiot. The fake scare after the son in law had shot the last hill guy in the chest, throat and body and then he got up (so Ruby had to push him over the cliff) was too much to take seriously. Also that the guy in the camper had survived the huge gas explosion too. Obscenely dull for a horror/action film and had me reaching for fast forward far too often.
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Production Year: 2000 - Horror - Director: Keenen Ivory Wayans - Original Language: English - Classification: 18 years and over - Starring: Carmen Electra, Anna Faris, Kurt Fuller, James Van Der Beek, Keenen Ivory Wayans
Good review, although I must admit when I saw this movie at the cinema I very nearly sh*t myself with fear. But then again I had just smoked a big fat reefer so perhaps it is not all that really.
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