Hills Have Eyes Part II, The

The Hills Have Eyes Part II

Credits
Title:	The Hills Have Eyes Part II
Directed by:	Wes Craven
Written by:	Wes Craven
Produced by:	Barry Cahn; Peter Locke; Jonathan Debin
Music by:	Harry Manfredini
Cinematography:	David Lewis
Edited by:	Richard Bracken
Production
Distributors:	VTC Castle Hill Productions New Realm Entertainments
Released:	August 2nd, 1985
Rating:	R
Running time:	86 min.
Country:	USA
Language:	English
Budget:	$700,000
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The Hills Have Eyes Part II is an American horror film of the grindhouse era. It is the sequel to the 1977 movie The Hills Have Eyes. A quasi-remake of the film was produced in 1984. The movie was written and directed by Wes Craven and produced by Barry Cahn and Peter Locke with Jonathan Debin as associate producer. It was distributed through Castle Hill Productions and premiered at Mystfest in June, 1984. It was then screened at the Sitges Film Festival in Spain in October, 1984. It was released to video in the United Kingdom in January, 1985. It was released theatrically in the United States on August 2nd, 1985.

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Cast[]

Actor

Role

Bobby

The psychiatrist

Ethel Carter

Papa Jupiter

Brenda

Cass

Roy

Hulk

Foster

Harry

Jane

Sue

Rachel/Ruby

Mars

Katy

Doug

Mrs. Wilson

Man with towell

Pluto

The Reaper

Reaper voice

Notes & Trivia[]

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The tagline to this film is "So you think you're lucky to be alive..."
Filming on The Hills Have Eyes Part II was conducted from March to May of 1983. According to the 2004 book Wes Craven: The Art of Horror by John Kenneth Muir, production was delayed due to a lack of budget with only 2/3rds of the film completed.
Director and writer Wes Craven is also known for helming A Nightmare on Elm Street, which became a box office success. The financial windfall enabled Craven to complete production on The Hills Have Eyes Part II. Disappointed with the overall product, Craven has since disowned the film.
Scenes of the caverns were filmed at the Bronson Caves in Bronson Canyon in Los Angeles, California.
Shots of the Burbank Yamaha dealer were filmed at 1801 W. Burbank Boulevard in Burbank, California. It is now the location of Day Wireless Systems.
The Hills Have Eyes Part II was released on Region 1 DVD in the United States on March 20th, 2012 by Kino Lorber Films. A remastered edition of the movie was released on Blu-ray on March 30th, 2012.
There are twenty credited cast members in this film. Six of the credited cast members appear as stock footage from The Hills Have Eyes and had no direct participation in this sequel. This leaves fourteen actual actors, nine of whom are male with five females.
Actor Willard E. Pugh, who plays Foster, is credited as Willard Pugh in this film.
Actress Penny Johnson Jerald, who plays Sue, is credited as Penny Johnson in this film.
Actors Michael Berryman, Robert Houston and Janus Blythe are the only cast members from the first film to reprise their roles in the sequel.
Actor Nicholas Worth is uncredited for providing the voice for The Reaper. His vocals were looped in during post-production overtop of actor John Bloom's spoken lines.
The character of Ruby is now identified as Rachel.
Actress Penny Johnson is the only cast member who shows female topless nudity in this film.
The characters of Brenda Carter, Doug Wood, Ethel Carter, Katy, Mars and Papa Jupiter all appear in archival footage taken from The Hills Have Eyes.
On the movie review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, The Hills Have Eyes Part II has a score of 0% on the Tomatometer with only seven posted critic reviews. It has a Popcornmeter score of 19% based on more than 10,000 user ratings, averaging 2.1 out of 5. Yes, you read that correctly. More than 10,000 people have actually watched this film.
On Letterboxd, the film has a weighted review score of 2.03 out of 5 based on 8,828 user votes.
Some of the music score is derivative of Harry Manfredini's previous work on Friday the 13th.
Kane Hodder worked as a stunt person on this film. Kane would later go on to perform and coordinate stunts in dozens of horror movies and also take on the on-screen mantle of characters such as Jason Voorhees and Victor Crowley.
Director Wes Craven's wife, Mimi Craven, worked as an assistant costumer on this film.
This movie marks the film acting debut of Tamara Stafford. Although she also appears in the 1984 drama Against All Odds, which was released prior to The Hills Have Eyes Part II, it was actually filmed one month earlier than when shooting commenced on Against All Odds, which began on April 25th, 1983.

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