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The Hills Have Eyes | Now Streaming on Cinemax
During a decade when no iconic horror film seemed sacred and every year seemed to bring another unnecessary reboot, Alexandre Aja (High Tension) gave us a jolt of inspiration in 2006 with his remake of Wes Craven's The Hills Have Eyes. Aja's version is a visceral gut-punch that rattled audiences and turned off critics, but it takes a certain revelry in its grotesqueness that its contemporaries could have learned from.
During a decade when no iconic horror film seemed sacred and every year seemed to bring another unnecessary reboot, Alexandre Aja (High Tension) gave us a jolt of inspiration in 2006 with his remake of Wes Craven's The Hills Have Eyes. Aja's version is a visceral gut-punch that rattled audiences and turned off critics, but it takes a certain revelry in its grotesqueness that its contemporaries could have learned from.