Is The Hills Have Eyes scary?

Moderately so — The Hills Have Eyes mixes scares with other modes. As a survival film, it scored 7.0/10 for fear, 8.0/10 for atmosphere, and 6.7/10 overall on Watch Darkly's curator scale across 1 rating.

How many jump scares are in The Hills Have Eyes?

The Hills Have Eyes has 9 jump scares, based on Watch Darkly's per-film jump-scare count.

What are some films like The Hills Have Eyes?

The Hills Have Eyes is tagged as survival, family, creature feature on Watch Darkly. The film's page lists similar horror films selected by curated scoring across fear, gore, atmosphere, and overall quality.

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The Hills Have Eyes

2006 · R · 1h 47m

The lucky ones die first.

Based on Wes Craven's 1977 suspenseful cult classic, The Hills Have Eyes is the story of a family road trip that goes terrifyingly awry when the travelers become stranded in a government atomic zone. Miles from nowhere, the Carter family soon realizes the seemingly uninhabited wasteland is actually the breeding ground of a blood-thirsty mutant family...and they are the prey.

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Curator Score

6.7

Overall

Based on 1 curator rating

Strongest on atmosphere.

Jump scares

The Hills Have Eyes has 9 jump scares. Compare counts

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6.7Overall

Fear7.0

Gore7.0

Atmosphere8.0

Genres

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Details

Budget$15M

Box office$69.6M

Directed by

Alexandre Aja

Written by

Grégory Levasseur, Alexandre Aja

Cinematography

Maxime Alexandre

Music

tomandandy, Andy Milburn, Tom Hajdu

Starring

Aaron Stanford as Doug · Dan Byrd as Bobby · Emilie de Ravin as Brenda · Vinessa Shaw as Lynn · Ted Levine as Big Bob · Kathleen Quinlan as Ethel · Tom Bower as Gas Station Attendant · Billy Drago as Papa Jupiter

Production

Craven-Maddalena Films, Dune Entertainment, Fox Searchlight Pictures, Major Studio Partners

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