It was only natural for French wunderkid Alexandre Aja to want to try his hand at the Hollywood movie machine following his success with tense thriller Switchblade Romance and what better way to show the Yanks what he was capable of then a remake of Wes Craven's revered, if a little lame, The Hills Have Eyes. Aja assembles a strong cast from X2's Aaron Stanford, Kathleen Quinlan, the great Ted Levine, Lost's Emilie De Ravin, Vinessa Shaw, Robert Joy, Tom Bower and Billy Drago with which to ground his cast and situation. He then designs and photographs a dusty, gritty landscape filled with some gleefully twisted, radiation mutated cannibals and finally ramps the brutality up to eleven.
There isn't anything big or clever about this remake, just a talented directer reveling in generating tension, shocks, gore and violent bloody conflict. And they say the British don't like the French.
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