Product Details

• Actors: Ara Apcar, Shawna Batesole, Rachel Binder, Johnny Clark (II), James DeBello
• Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD, Widescreen, NTSC
• Language: English
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rated: R (Restricted)
• Studio: Image Entertainment
• DVD Release Date: March 8, 2005
• Run Time: 91 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 2.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (26 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B000777HY8
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #83,618 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
• For more information about "The Hillz" visit the Internet Movie Database (IMDb)

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HILLZ - DVD Movie

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18 of 19 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars A gritty exercise in utter futility, July 8, 2005

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Daniel Jolley "darkgenius" (Shelby, North Carolina USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Hillz (DVD)

Actually sitting down and watching a Paris Hilton film is about as wild and crazy as I get. The Hillz really isn't a Paris Hilton film at all, though; it's just a film that she happens to appear in. I don't think the Oscars are going to come calling at the Hilton estate any time soon. The really sad thing is that everyone else in the cast is even a worse actor/actress than Paris. I might mention the fact that Paris actually keeps her clothes on in this movie - although her funeral scene attire was a wardrobe malfunction waiting to happen.

Oddly enough, this film could have been OK; all it needed was a decent writer, a decent director, a decent producer, a few decent actors, and some decent film quality. Since The Hillz has none of those things, it basically does a complete cannonball into an empty swimming pool. If I didn't know better, I would think Eminem wrote the script. The Hillz is basically all about a group of white, nouveau riche, teenaged hooligans who embrace a life of crime. In high school, they are just bored, no-good juvenile delinquents - and the cops are no better than they are. After high school, though, every policeman within 100 miles of The Hillz obviously left town because Duff and his gang of hooligans and thugs beat people up, sell drugs, use drugs, and murder people in cold blood - in broad daylight. There is apparently no community watch group in The Hillz because it's sort of hard for a whole neighborhood to not notice anything suspicious when a gang of kids cursing at the tops of their lungs start blowing each others' brains out in the middle of the street in the middle of the day. Gorehounds, I must say, will be disappointed because we hardly see any blood whatsoever. The characters themselves hardly even notice when Duff has one of his episodes and spontaneously takes somebody's head off - although one character does utter the words "uncalled for" in the wake of one of the murders.

There are trace elements of morality in this dark story. A couple of the main characters walk away from the gang after the killing starts, only to be sucked back in (one way or another) before the credits roll. The narrator is supposedly some guy who learned his lesson and is looking back on what happened to him, but he's just as dumb as Duff. If this is some kind of morality tale, it's not a very good one. The narrator guy happens to be madly in love with Heather Smith (Paris Hilton), even though she's self-centered and superficial (Paris wasn't exactly forced to act out of character for this film). Paris doesn't really bring a lot to the actual story, but she (unlike her equally untalented co-stars) can generate sales. When Paris Hilton is about the only thing going for a movie, you know it has some real problems.

8 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Terrible acting, terrible quality, very unbelievable..., May 18, 2005

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Nicole (Phillipsburg, NJ) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Hillz (DVD)

I only rented this movie because Paris Hilton was on the cover. Little did I know it isn't about her at all...and she's only in about 10 minutes of it. The film quality is terrible and it really looks like someone went outside with a home video camera and taped it. On top of that, the acting is very bad. The actors show no emotion at all. And...the events are completly unbelievable. These rich kids just go around killing people for stupid reasons (like someone owes them $80) and they never get caught. On top of all that, whoever edited the movie put little stupid effects like a twinkle on this one rich guy's tooth when he smiled. Everything about this movie was dumb. I really think anyone could go out, buy a video camera and some cheap editing program, and make a movie better than this. If it didn't have Paris Hilton...it would have NOTHING going for it.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Horrible, May 6, 2007

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Brian R. Chambliss "Good Charlotte Sucks" (Denver, CO) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Hillz (DVD)

This is the worst movie I have ever seen in my life. It is so bad that it was hilarious. I haven't laughed so hard in a movie in a long time. The acting, script and editing are all awful. Every scene in the movie had nothing to do with anything. Anytime anyone said anything, it had nothing to do with anything that was going on in the movie. Horrible.