Thanks for the memories!

Absolutely the worst movie.

It's hard to see any effort in the film. There's no comedy to speak of, no real drama and, worst of all.

It’s fine. It's literally the definition of a fine movie. You’ve seen it before, you know every beat and outcome before the characters even do. Only question is how much escapism you’re looking for.

A group of idiots go into the desert hills to party, drink, and smoke pot, not knowing that these hills have cannibal rednecks living in them in this "Hills Have Eyes" clone that only the Asylum can make. The Asylum is widely regarded as being heavily synonymous was complete and utter crap, and with good reason as most, if not all, of their films are practically unwatchable, this one being no exception. Personally, I'm glad that of all these Asylum abominations that I've seen, I haven't paid for any of them (well OK yeah I have indirectly through Netflix & premium cable but I digress) Not.worth your times, money or loss of sanity to watch this.

Within the first 30 seconds of the title sequence I was going to give HILLSIDE CANNIBALS the benefit of the doubt : " Hey this is one of those THE HILLS HAVE EYES rip offs " I said to myself and knew I wasn't going to be watching a masterpiece . Within the following five minutes I was still giving it the benefit of the doubt: " Hey horny teenagers with weed , beer and a sex drive , this is one of those HALLOWEEN rip offs " I said to myself and knew I wasn't going to be watching a masterpiece . However ten minutes later I had more or less given up on the movie . It's a gory film , a derivative film , a retro film but worse of all it's a film that makes no sense whatsoever . Even a hardcore horror fan and IMDb contributer like Paul Andrews despised this film which shows youhow absolutely dreadful it is Even the subtitle THE LEGEND OF SAWNEY BEAN makes no sense . I remember as a child reading a book by Daniel Farson which was the first time I'd heard of the legend of an inbreed brood killing and eating passerbys in a remote part of Scotland . A great number of people even in Scotland have never heard of the legend so what chance of the average American ? No doubt the average American teenager watching this will be scratching their head wondering why the male cannibals are wearing skirts . For those of us who have heard about the legend we'll all be scratching our heads wondering how mythical 17th century Scottish cannibals have suddenly decided to jump 6,000 miles and 300 years in to present day America . Have they got a Tardis ? This lack of explanation and logic goes well beyond the premise and in to every plot turn . I know 28 WEEKS LATER received a lot of criticism of characters acting stupid in order to drive the plot forward but that was still a highly entertaining well made movie with a political subtext where as here we have absolute garbage of the lowest order . For example if all these people have been disappearing over the years how come no one seems to be aware of this ? In fact it must have been so obvious to the sheriff that I started to think he might be involved in the culling himself long before it was revealed on screen he was . This leads to a ridiculous plot hole where he comes across the surviving female early in the film . Ask yourself this - why didn't he hand her over to the cannibals there and then instead of waiting till the end of the movie ? The above line is really a rhetorical question since if he did that the film would have ended , thereby saving the audience another hour of torture . That's basically all that happens plot wise - girl saves boy from cannibal den , boy gets captured and tortured again ,girl gets saved by survivalist , survivalist gets killed , girl gets captured by sheriff and to pad this out we have to endure meaningless scenes with the cannibals grunting and fighting amongst themselves . Perhaps the worst aspect is the ending where the film suddenly stops during a cannibal sex scene . It's impossible to believe atrocious rubbish like this was aborted during draft stage since it's undoubtedly one of the worst , most unentertaining films I have ever seen

This film isn't that bad. Though is could have been better. The acting is weak for a horror movie, half the time people just looked annoyed rather than scared. On the other hand, if you LIKE your movies someone amusing and silly (and there are times when that is exactly what I am looking for) then this movie is for you.What I did want to comment on was the above poster saying that Craven should sue. IF you would have actually looked at the movie jacket a bit closer you would see that the working title is actually "Hillside Cannibals: The Legend of SAWNEY BEAN. You would also then realize that is exactly who Craven said inspired his movie, "The Hills have Eyes." I don't know...not to be rude, but maybe you should do a bit of research before jumping the gun. The movie takes liberties with the legend of the Bean family, but since there is nothing in the way of hard evidence to corroborate whether or not the Bean family actually existed, it is pretty obvious that both the director of this movie and Craven himself have taken liberties with the retelling of the story.

Alright, I was in Blockbuster today on my lunch break and spotted to preview sleeves for this (both copies were actually rented out). It claimed to be the tale that inspired the Hills Have Eyes. Um, WHAT?! That is the most bogus claim I've ever read! Hey director/script writer: watch the documentary on the original Hills Have Eyes (1977) 2-disk by Anchor Bay. In it, Wes Craven states that the inspiration for the Hills Have Eyes was a cave-dwelling medieval (sp?) family in the British Isles (the Seaney-Beane family I believe). Wes Craven should sue the hell out of the "production company" of this "film" for libel! I am insulted that anyone would try to cash in on film-renters' ignorance of a subject by just plain lying. I came across another video box for "When A Killer Calls" which claims to be more like the urban legend (the babysitter and the man upstairs) than the original When A Stranger Calls. RUBBISH! I CALL SHINANIGANS!!