The Hills Have Eyes

The Hills Have Eyes is an American horror franchise that consists of four horror films, as well as a graphic novel and merchandise. The first film was released in 1977, The Hills Have Eyes; the series was rebooted in a 2006 remake. 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. The films collectively grossed over $132 million at the box-office worldwide. The series was created by Wes Craven who is known for the Nightmare on Elm Street and Scream films.^[2][3][4][5] The series has featured actors and actresses including Dee Wallace, Aaron Stanford, Michael Berryman and Emilie de Ravin.

In 2016, Arrow Video released a restored edition DVD and Blu-ray.^[1]

Films

Film	U.S. release date	Director(s)	Screenwriter(s)	Producer(s)
Original films
The Hills Have Eyes	June 22, 1977 (1977-06-22)	Wes Craven		Peter Locke
The Hills Have Eyes Part II	August 2, 1985 (1985-08-02)			Peter Locke, Barry Cahn, Jonathan Debin
Reboot films
The Hills Have Eyes	March 10, 2006 (2006-03-10)	Alexandre Aja	Alexandre Aja and Grégory Levasseur	Wes Craven, Marianne Maddalena, Peter Locke
The Hills Have Eyes 2	March 23, 2007 (2007-03-23)	Martin Weisz	Wes Craven and Jonathan Craven

Cast

List indicators

This section includes characters who will appear or have appeared in more than two films in the series.

• An empty grey cell indicates the character was not in the film, or that the character's official presence has not yet been confirmed.
•  ^A indicates an appearance through archival footage or audio.
•  ^C indicates a cameo role.
•  ^U indicates an uncredited appearance.

Character	Films
	Original series		Reboot series
	The Hills Have Eyes	The Hills Have Eyes Part II	The Hills Have Eyes	The Hills Have Eyes 2
	1977	1985	2006	2007
Humans
Doug Wood / Bukowski	Martin Speer	Mentioned	Aaron Stanford	Mentioned
Brenda Carter	Susan Lanier	Susan LanierA	Emilie de Ravin
Bobby Carter	Robert Houston		Dan Byrd
Lynne Carter-Wood / Bukowski	Dee Wallace	Mentioned	Vinessa Shaw
Ethel Carter	Virginia Vincent	Virginia VincentA	Kathleen Quinlan
Big Bob Carter	Russ Grieve	Mentioned	Ted Levine
Catherine "Katy" Wood / Bukowski	Brenda Marinoff		Maisie Camilleri
Ruby / Rachel	Janus Blythe		Laura Ortiz
Fred	John Steadman		Tom Bower
Beast	Appeared			Mentioned
Beauty	Appeared		Appeared
The Cannibal
Pluto	Michael Berryman		Michael Bailey Smith
Papa Jupiter	James Whitworth	James WhitworthA	Billy Drago
Mercury	Peter Locke		Adam Perrell
Big Mama	Cordy Clark		Ivana Turchetto

Reception

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	—	$25,000,000
The Hills Have Eyes Part II	January 2, 1985	$700,000	—	—	—
The Hills Have Eyes (2006)	March 10, 2006	$15,000,000	$41,778,863	$27,844,850	$69,623,713	[6]
The Hills Have Eyes 2	March 23, 2007	$15,000,000	$20,804,166	$16,662,372	$37,405,247	[7]
Total		$38,930,000	$66,584,110	$44,507,222	$132,028,960

Critical reception

Most of the films have received mixed reception from critics.

Film	Rotten Tomatoes	Metacritic
The Hills Have Eyes (1977)	67% (27 reviews)[8]
The Hills Have Eyes Part II	0% (7 reviews)[9]
The Hills Have Eyes (2006)	52% (140 reviews)[10]	52% (28 reviews)[11]
The Hills Have Eyes 2	12% (68 reviews)[12]	32% (18 reviews)[13]

Comics

Cover art

To coincide with the release of The Hills Have Eyes 2, Fox Atomic Comics released a graphic novel set in the continuity of the remake series in July 2007. The Hills Have Eyes: The Beginning reveals the genesis of the mutants, who were once normal people, ignorant to the rest of the world, and how they evolved into horrific creatures.^[14][15] It was written by Jimmy Palmiotti and Justin Gray, and drawn by John Higgins.