Warning about: "The Hills Have Eyes" (Movie)
@HeavenUnaware (1757)
United States
March 12, 2007 6:18pm CST
I'm a mom of a teenager who loves scary movies. He actually wants to work in the film industry as a movie producer or camera director making scary movies. So I have a warning for those of you with teens like mine -
Do not allow them to go see "The Hills Have Eyes" which is coming in in the next couple of weeks.
I have a relative that works for Entertainment Tonight here in California and her boss just went to see the media screening for this movie. She reported back that it was a very BAD movie and had a HORRIBLE rape scene in it.
I'm not normally one to shield my son from gorey movies because he knows the difference between right and wrong - real and fake - but I will not be allowing him to see this movie. Watching someone be brutally raped in a very graphic nature on screen isn't something I want my 16 year old to be watching.
So I thought I'd pass this information on and spare some of you from having to see it either.
2 people like this
10 responses
@Ravenladyj (22902)
• United States
13 Mar 07
Thanks for the warning HeavenUnaware....mind you I wont prevent my kids from watching it should they want to...I know I want to see it and chances are my son wants to too so we'll probably watch it together...my daughter sits in the room but with a blanket over her head LOL...Being a survivor of a brutal rape myself, my kids are very familiar with the reality of it and the real world etc...seeing it on tv or a movie most likely wont disturb them and if it does they'll just look away...Now if this were a DOCUMENTARY that'd be a different story..I'd let them watch but they wouldnt want to because THAT would upset them to the extreme...plus I always figure in as well that what may seem highly graphic to someone else usually isnt to us in this house (except maybe my husband)
Regardless though, thanks for warning everyone about it...
1 person likes this
@Ravenladyj (22902)
• United States
15 Mar 07
I hear what you are saying completely....I guess for my son its the true stories that upset him because he relates it to me and what happened to me...when its a movie if he doesnt like it he'll look away or just go "ok thats seriously sick/wrong/twisted" but it wont upset him if that makes sense....
@HeavenUnaware (1757)
• United States
14 Mar 07
No problem.
Not much is filtered out in our home - we are very open about everything and I'm very much into living in the real world and not fantasy type worlds. I have always been very open and honest with my son and he hasn't been shielded from much in the form of music or movies because we talk alot about everything and I watch/listen with him.. but I have no interest in seeing this movie and since my relative told me it was horrible with a very bad rape scene, I'm going to take her word for it. She isn't one to be sheltered either so for her to warn me makes me have second thoughts. I have no idea what will take place in the rape scene and I don't want to imagine or think that my son will be watching that.
I guess I got lucky though because when I talked to my son about it, he said he heard the first movie was "stupid" and he has no interest in seeing the second one so no worries for me. :]
1 person likes this
@Backpack30 (924)
• United States
4 Apr 07
Oh my Lord.
I wish I had read this post before I watched that movie.
My husband and I usually rent movies on the weekends and there was nothing out one Saturday so I picked The Hills Have Eyes thinking it'd be a good spooky movie.
I was so wrong.
I literally almost threw up when that scene came on. The part when the mutant guy opens the mother's shirt......I made my husband turn it off because I felt so sickened.
I felt just really wierd too for the rest of the night.
AWFUL movie.
1 person likes this
@ArsonCuff (3114)
• United States
13 Mar 07
the FIRST one has a brutal rape scene in it...you figure they do it again for the second...that would be dull
1 person likes this
@Backpack30 (924)
• United States
4 Apr 07
Oh my Lord.
I wish I had read this post before I watched that movie.
My husband and I usually rent movies on the weekends and there was nothing out one Saturday so I picked The Hills Have Eyes thinking it'd be a good spooky movie.
I was so wrong.
I literally almost threw up when that scene came on. The part when the mutant guy opens the mother's shirt......I made my husband turn it off because I felt so sickened.
I felt just really wierd too for the rest of the night.
AWFUL movie.
1 person likes this
@Angelwhispers (8978)
• United States
13 Mar 07
Oh Gosh I can not imagine the second one being more brutal than the first. Thank you for the warning, I have a 12 year old and both he and I love horror movies but I am careful to screen information on them before I either take him to the movies or we rent them. The Hills (1) was not one I wanted to share with him. So I am sure I shall be passing on this one also. I doubt I even want to see it.
1 person likes this
@tator_tot8073 (698)
• United States
14 Mar 07
I have seen the movie The Hills Have Eyes. I agree with you, don't let him watch it. It is very disturbing. Some of the scenes are very graphic. It is a movie that I so not care to watch again.
@mzbubblie (3839)
• United States
13 Mar 07
That movie has been out for a while I thought...lol...I actually watched it and it does have a rape scene in it. the movie is actually not so much scary, more of "sneaking up effects for me" really Spooky, especially coming from someone who don't like scary movies...
I had to watch it during the day..lol
@chaygylmommy (2469)
• United States
13 Mar 07
I just figured she was talking about the second one coming out soon. The previews look pretty scary. Haven't seen the first one...but I really want to.
1 person likes this
@HeavenUnaware (1757)
• United States
13 Mar 07
I'm sorry, I meant the one coming out soon. My mistake, I couldn't go back and edit it.
Thanks for clearing that up!
1 person likes this
@mzbubblie (3839)
• United States
13 Mar 07
Ohhhh, another one coming out...Ohhh nah, I don't think I want to see the next one..lol...I know the previous one was enough for me..lol
1 person likes this
@chaygylmommy (2469)
• United States
13 Mar 07
I always make sure that I watch any movie over PG13 before letting my kids or neices and nephews view it. I don't take other people's words for it because what they deem horrible, wrong, violent, etc may not be that bad to me. But, I do take people's warnings serious and double check. I didn't see the first HILLS HAVE EYES, but I want to.
1 person likes this
@dpk262006 (58679)
• Delhi, India
14 Mar 07
It is wonderful on your part to advice others about the forthcoming movie. People like you are must be appreciated and rewarded for their thoughtfulness. It is so nice of you to show concern for other teenagers and their parents.
@prestocaro (1251)
• United States
14 Mar 07
I wanted to see this movie when it first came out, but i read the rottentomatoes.com review as well as the pajiba.com review and both made the movie sound really bad. I love horror movies, and don't mind gore (some of it can be pretty funny) but rape scenes aren't scary in a clever kind of way. It's more like, god, thats horriffic. I'd much rather be frightened by some boogeyman (which is what we go to the movies for, right?) than forced to watch some rape scene that a director put in to make me squirm and feel uncomfortable, not frightened. I also walked out of wolf creek pretty early into the movie because it seemed like it was heading in that direction as well.
