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The Hills Have Eyes is a 1977 American horror film directed by Wes Craven and starring Susan Lanier, Michael Berryman, and Dee

Wallace. It is about a family on a road trip who become stranded in the Nevada desert, and are hunted by a clan of deformed

cannibals in the surrounding hills. The film was released in cinemas on July 22, 1977, and has since become a cult classic.

The film was remade in 2006 by French horror filmmaker Alexandre Aja.

Plot

An old man named Fred is packing his truck and drinking alcohol. He frequently glances at the arid landscape around him, and makes

comments about “them” and what “they” would do to him if they ever found out he was escaping. A ragged and somewhat feral teenage

girl approaches. Annoyed, Fred addresses her as Ruby. She offers to trade what she has in her bag for food, but the old man

refuses. They walk into a small cabin and Fred scolds her for what she and “they” have done. Ruby says that her family ambushed a

nearby airfield because they were hungry and no one passes by their home anymore. She pleads with Fred to take her with him, but

he mocks her and says she could never live with normal people. He tells Ruby that if “the pack”, in particular someone named

Jupiter, learns what she is doing, she could be in danger. She retorts that her “pa” would do the same to Fred if he knew he was

getting away. A noise distracts them and Ruby hides.

The Carter family are traveling on vacation. Parents Bob and Ethel are driving the family car accompanied by their teenage

children Bobby and Brenda, and eldest daughter Lynne, along with Lynne’s husband Doug and their baby daughter Katy. They stop at

Fred’s Oasis for fuel and to allow themselves and the family’s dogs, Beauty and Beast, to stretch. Fred tells them to stay on the

main road. Later, they skid off a desert road and crash their station wagon due to what is later revealed to be a booby-trap. Bob

leaves Bobby a pistol and walks back to Fred’s Oasis to get help. Fred’s son and his son’s family of deranged cannibals dwell in

the wilderness through which the Carters are traveling. They are commanded by Papa Jupiter, patriarch of the clan. He killed his

mother, Fred’s wife, during childbirth. As a child he killed the livestock on his father’s farm, then later murdered his sister.

Fred attacked his son with a tire iron and left him in the wilderness to die. Jupiter survived, and began living with a depraved,

alcoholic prostitute known as Mama. Together they had three sons, Mars, Pluto and Mercury, and their abused daughter Ruby. They

survive by stealing from and cannibalizing travelers.

As night falls, Bob reaches the gas station, where Fred attacks him then tells him the origin of the hill people. Papa Jupiter

arrives, kills Fred with a crowbar, and takes Bob prisoner. Doug and Lynne are sleeping in the family car while everyone else

stays in the trailer. Bobby gets locked out of the trailer and asks Doug for his keys. Bobby does not know the trailer is locked

because Pluto is looking through their valuables while Ethel and Brenda sleep in the next room. As Bobby enters the trailer, Papa

Jupiter sets Bob ablaze on a stake in the distance. Ethel, Lynne, Doug and Bobby rush to Bob, while Brenda stays in the trailer

with the baby. Everyone tries extinguishing the fire, while Pluto and Mars rape Brenda. The rest of the Carters extinguish the

fire, but Bob dies shortly after. When Ethel and Lynne return to the trailer Pluto runs away. Lynne finds Mars taking her baby.

She attacks Mars as Ethel steps in and hits him with a broom. Mars shoots Ethel in the stomach. Brenda rushes in and throws Lynne

a knife, which she uses to stab Mars in the leg until he shoots her as well. Pluto returns to abduct the baby and flees with Mars.

Doug rushes in to find Lynne dead; Ethel dies shortly thereafter.

Doug sets out to find his baby while Bobby and Brenda remain behind. Beauty has been savaged by the clan and Ruby is forced to eat

it as punishment. She is chained outside the cave where the clan live, with Mama tormenting her. The men of the clan return to the

cave, and Mercury is pushed to his death off a hilltop by Beast. Papa Jupiter vows to avenge his son’s death. Papa Jupiter and

Pluto return to the trailer, vowing to kill the survivors. Doug spies on the savages’ camp. He sees Ruby knock out Mama and escape

with Katy into the hills, followed by Mars. Doug catches up with Ruby and the baby. Pluto and Papa Jupiter travel to the trailer

to kill the Carters. Pluto is incapacitated by Beast. Papa Jupiter is killed by a trap set by Brenda and Bobby.

Mars follows Doug and Ruby into the hills and is stabbed to death by Doug, saving the baby. The film ends with a closeup of Doug,

who is stabbing and kicking the dead body of Mars, as Ruby weeps over her brother’s body.