The Hills Have Eyes

Made with the blessing of Wes Craven, who wrote and directed the original THE HILLS HAVE EYES (1978), French up-and-comer Alexandre Aja's full-bore do-over is a shockingly successful update of a seminal 1970s shocker. It begins with the most mundane of setups: Bluff but loving dad "Big Bob" Carter (Ted Levine), a retired police detective, has dragooned his long-suffering clan into a cross-country family vacation in his beloved Airstream trailer. No one wants to take a detour through the desert except Bob, not even his unflaggingly supportive wife, Ethel (Kathleen Quinlan). Teens Brenda (Emilie de Ravin) and Bobby (Dan Byrd) have zero interest in the sand-and-scrub sc...