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The first great thing about The Hills Have Eyes is its title, even if it wasn’t the original choice for writer/director Wes Craven. His preferred name, “Blood Relations,” was nixed by producer Peter Locke, and while it would have aptly spoke to the familial themes of the film, it doesn’t necessarily suggest the narrative bearing or visual imprint ultimately associated with this 1977 horror classic. As Craven’s third feature—following his astonishing (and astonishingly brutal) The Last House on the Left (1972) and his pornographic sophomore effort, The Fireworks Woman (1975), understandably directed with the pseudonym of Abe Snake—The Hills Have Eyes instantly promotes the obscured attackers’ ensuing ambush and the scenic set-up of surrounding hostility and containment. http://www.cutprintfilm.com/blu/hillshaveyes/

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