The following entry contains spoilers. If you plan on watching The Hills have Eyes—an action which is highly discouraged by the author—do not read this review.

I was really looking forward to this movie. Aaron Stanford is in it, I like horror and gore, and it generally didn’t look so bad.

Within the first ten minutes of the movie, I had already made a conscious decision that I was really going to hate it. The characters were very poorly developed, the dialogue left much to be desired, and none of the foundations of a good horror film had been laid out. But hey, at least I was going to get a good scare, right? Almost all gory movies promise that.

But unfortunately, I was not scared. I was offended and disgusted (by those who has made the movie—not the movie itself), and I walked out halfway through and demanded my money back.

That movie was not going to redeem itself.

This is where the spoilers start.

In one scene alone, a man was burned at the stake while his wife and children watched, two sisters were gang-raped by horribly disfigured men (one of the sisters was a young teen, the other was a breast-feeding mother—the director drew an allegory that I’m sure that he thought was creative by having the rapist suck the same breast that the baby had earlier), a baby was stolen from its parents and two family members were murdered.

If you like your movies disgusting and violent without being scary, The Hills Have Eyes is the flick for you. If you’d rather not lose hope for humanity, I’d suggest staying as far away from it as you can.