The Hills Have Eyes is an American horror franchise that consist of four slasher films, graphic novels and merchandise. The films focus on a group of people stranded in a desert who become hunted by a clan of deformed cannibals in the surrounding hills. The films collectively grossed over $132 million at the box-office worldwide. The series was created by Wes Craven who is known for the A Nightmare on Elm Street films and Scream films. The series has featured several notable actors and actresses including Dee Wallace, Aaron Stanford, Michael Berryman and Emilie de Ravin.
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Overview
In the first film, a family on a road trip becomes stranded in the Nevada desert become hunted by a clan of deformed cannibals in the surrounding hills. While The Hills Have Eyes Part II (1985) has the same setting and concept as the original film, but it has a variety of new characters. The Hills Have Eyes (2006) follows the same story as the original film. The Hills Have Eyes 2 follows several heroic, but troubled, U.S. National Guardsmen as they fight for survival against the mutant people living in a military base in New Mexico.
Graphic novel
The Hills Have Eyes 2 was accompanied with the release of the graphic novel, The Hills Have Eyes: The Beginning. The Hills Have Eyes: The Beginning tells for the first time the epic origin story behind Wes Craven's classic tale of mutant carnage, leading into and bridging the gap between the 2006 remake of The Hills Have Eyes and its sequel, The Hills Have Eyes 2. Written by acclaimed storytellers Jimmy Palmiotti (Painkiller Jane) and Justin Gray (Countdown) with shocking art by John Higgins (Judge Dredd, War Stories), this is mutant mayhem as you've never seen it before.