Zee 'Hills'!!! Zey Have 'EYES'!!!
The Hills Have Eyes TrailerAhhh, Christmas is upon us. To me, Christmas is not about Jesus Christ's birthday. Pfft, I mean, come on, he's been dead a couple thousand years, you think we'd let him rest in peace after all this time has past. But no, every year, we stick a party hat on his head and bring out the baby photos, just in case we didn't see them the first eight billion times in those goddamned school Nativity recitals throughout our life. And finally, the night ends with Jesus' party guests yelling for him to 'Chug, chug, chug, chug!!!"
To me, Jesus is just an afterthought. To me, Christmas is about family. Every family relates better in the giving season, every single one is brought closer to truly appreciate the group of blood-joined people they have been blessedly associated with.
Including Horror Mutant Family #016, belonging to the upcoming remake of The Hills Have Eyes. Fox Searchlight has just released their snazzy new trailer onto the Web, and it's well worth the look if family is as strong a point of the holiday for you as it is mine.
What seemingly brings this family together is, at a wild guess from the direction the trailer seems to have been leading, to murder a group of city slickers in the desert hills of New Mexico. Which isn't so surprising really, since they've had nuclear bombs dropped on them for twenty-odd years. I don't blame them for wanting blood.
I liked the trailer. I mean, it doesn't exactly do anything new, but it has some cool concepts that make it seem fresh.
"All the leaves are brown (All the leaves are brown)" hacks Mama Cass and her backup Papas, supplying us with an absolutely unfitting and unusual melody for the whole movie we are about to sample. The music is dated, only all the characters use cell-phones, drive modern cars, wear modern clothing. Are we really supposed to believe the twirpy teen sitting in the back seat of the soon to be immobilised car is listening to California Dreamin' on his Ipod?
It is in this very backseat, also, we catch our glimpse of Emily De Ravin of 'Lost' fame. She plays the teenage daughter, who's probably supposed to be ten years old are something.
"Next year, I am going to Cancun," Yeah. I'm sure sucky ass New Mexico mountains sounded great on paper, too. I guess a road trip through the gorgeously endless fields of scenic dirt was too tempting to give up.
And then, enter our good ol' loving American family, the type of that gets its kicks by tearing other families apart. Literally. And they're a good looking bunch too. There's the one with a mining axe that looks very monkey-ish, there's the jittery one in the wheelchair that... well I'm not exactly sure what he's there to do, and there's the awesomely absurd guy in the head brace (that reminds me of the terrible, terrible subordinate in The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2, with the metal plate in his head).
The tagline "The lucky ones die first" isn't bad, but does that mean all the Normal family dies. Since, if there were at least one that survived the onslaught, would they not be luckier than the ones who had been brutally disembowled?
The trailer doesn't reveal too much other than that. Oh, a distressed de Ravin swings a pick-axe at someone or something strategically off camera at the end of the clip. One can only presume its an unlucky member of the Mutant family.
A grisly reminder of what Christmas means to the idea of family. Whether you can relate more to the Mutant family, or the Normal family this holiday, remember that its our harmony within our familial structures that would drive us to such extremes as repeatedly pick-axing the skull of an offender threatening that very same harmony.
Mutants are people too. If only just barely.
To me, Jesus is just an afterthought. To me, Christmas is about family. Every family relates better in the giving season, every single one is brought closer to truly appreciate the group of blood-joined people they have been blessedly associated with.
Including Horror Mutant Family #016, belonging to the upcoming remake of The Hills Have Eyes. Fox Searchlight has just released their snazzy new trailer onto the Web, and it's well worth the look if family is as strong a point of the holiday for you as it is mine.
What seemingly brings this family together is, at a wild guess from the direction the trailer seems to have been leading, to murder a group of city slickers in the desert hills of New Mexico. Which isn't so surprising really, since they've had nuclear bombs dropped on them for twenty-odd years. I don't blame them for wanting blood.
I liked the trailer. I mean, it doesn't exactly do anything new, but it has some cool concepts that make it seem fresh.
"All the leaves are brown (All the leaves are brown)" hacks Mama Cass and her backup Papas, supplying us with an absolutely unfitting and unusual melody for the whole movie we are about to sample. The music is dated, only all the characters use cell-phones, drive modern cars, wear modern clothing. Are we really supposed to believe the twirpy teen sitting in the back seat of the soon to be immobilised car is listening to California Dreamin' on his Ipod?
It is in this very backseat, also, we catch our glimpse of Emily De Ravin of 'Lost' fame. She plays the teenage daughter, who's probably supposed to be ten years old are something.
"Next year, I am going to Cancun," Yeah. I'm sure sucky ass New Mexico mountains sounded great on paper, too. I guess a road trip through the gorgeously endless fields of scenic dirt was too tempting to give up.
And then, enter our good ol' loving American family, the type of that gets its kicks by tearing other families apart. Literally. And they're a good looking bunch too. There's the one with a mining axe that looks very monkey-ish, there's the jittery one in the wheelchair that... well I'm not exactly sure what he's there to do, and there's the awesomely absurd guy in the head brace (that reminds me of the terrible, terrible subordinate in The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2, with the metal plate in his head).
The tagline "The lucky ones die first" isn't bad, but does that mean all the Normal family dies. Since, if there were at least one that survived the onslaught, would they not be luckier than the ones who had been brutally disembowled?
The trailer doesn't reveal too much other than that. Oh, a distressed de Ravin swings a pick-axe at someone or something strategically off camera at the end of the clip. One can only presume its an unlucky member of the Mutant family.
A grisly reminder of what Christmas means to the idea of family. Whether you can relate more to the Mutant family, or the Normal family this holiday, remember that its our harmony within our familial structures that would drive us to such extremes as repeatedly pick-axing the skull of an offender threatening that very same harmony.
Mutants are people too. If only just barely.
posted by Ryan at 11:52 pm
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