Product Details

• Actors: Tom Downey, Tom Nagel, Heather Conforto, Vaz Andreas
• Directors: Leigh Scott
• Format: Color, DVD, NTSC
• Language: English
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rated: R (Restricted)
• Studio: The Asylum Home Entertainment
• DVD Release Date: March 28, 2006
• Run Time: 80 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 1.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B000EQ5V1S
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #109,397 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

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HILLSIDE CANNIBALS - DVD Movie

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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars The Hills Have... Stupidity., August 19, 2008

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Robert P. Beveridge "xterminal" (Lakewood, OH) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Hillside Cannibals (DVD)

Hillside Cannibals (Leigh Scott, 2006)

As good as The Dark Knight was (see above), Hillside Cannibals is bad. I'm always in the mood for a good Hills Have Eyes ripoff. I love the original as much as I hate the remake. I hated this more than I hate the remake. And that's saying a lot.

If you've seen, or read about, or even heard of, The Hills Have Eyes, you have the basic idea here-- a bunch of young-and-beautifuls, an isolated place, some inbred cave-dwellers, and a confrontation that ends in a great deal of bloodshed. Where Scott tried to take a right turn into originality land was that instead of the focus here being on the young-and-beautifuls, after the initial confrontation, he puts the focus on the cave-dwellers. And I admit that, if such a thing were actually done correctly, this would have been the most brilliant film of its type since Wes Craven's original. The problem is that it's not pulled off correctly. No, not at all.

It's pretty obvious that screenwriter Steve Bevilacqua (responsible for the similarly painful Supercroc) had some very good ideas of where to go here; a language of grunts and gestures that never comes close to being fully realized, internal warfare, that sort of thing. On a theoretical level, it's a fascinating concept, and one I'd really like to see taken to its natural conclusion. Instead, it seems to have been used for cheap thrills. Problem is, it doesn't provide many of those, either. The scenes where the cave-dwellers hunt, torture, or otherwise interact with the "normal" humans are at least kind of halfway watchable, but there are too few of those to carry the whole movie, as short as it is (eighty-two minutes). So much possibility, and none of it realized. (half)

7 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Im sure guestar57 will love it., March 27, 2006

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Dach Nednil "lokiv" (Slidell, La USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Hillside Cannibals (DVD)

A word of advice to all potential buyers. Asylum hasnt made a good movie yet. Read the reviews on here, click on the names and notice what other movies they have reviewed. If you have one guy raving about Asylum movies maybe he doesnt have your best interest at heart because he works for Asylum!

3.0 out of 5 stars not too bad actually, July 30, 2010

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B. E Jackson (Pennsylvania) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Hillside Cannibals (DVD)

Hillside Cannibals is definitely no stand out in the genre of horror films. The biggest problem is that it wants to be like the Hills Have Eyes, except it lacks any kind of memorable storyline, interesting character development, or really graphic deaths (though there ARE a few really good ones).

What the film *does* have going for it however is a really good atmosphere. The atmosphere is actually identical to that of the Hills Have Eyes, though because of the above factors (lack of quality all around) Hillside Cannibals is definitely not in the same league.

I appreciate how the story gets going the very second the film begins. A bunch of teens unintentionally come across some people/monsters that really like the taste of human flesh. Some really graphic scenes then take place (one of which is REALLY cool involving a teenage girl being cut in half and having her lower half dragged across the dirt).

However, a couple of the teens manage to escape the first attempt by the flesh-eating monsters, so the majority of the storyline shows the two teens trying to escape from the entire area and completely away from danger.

The atmosphere is definitely there, but the storytelling is not.

Other than that, this honestly isn't that bad of a movie. I recommend it for a late night helping of blood and guts to satisfy your horror-loving needs.