The Hills Have Eyes 2 (2007)

The Hills Have Eyes reboot from 2006 was incredible, a perfect example of how a horror reboot should be. I put it up there with other legendary reboots like Evil Dead and The Fly. The Hills Have Eyes 2 from 2007 is not incredible, in any way. If you don't want to believe me just follow the money. The Hills Have Eyes pulled in five times its budget while this sequel pulled in two. The problem with this sequel is that it comes across as a B-movie version of its predecessor. It's basically the same movie if you replace the stranded family with a stranded group of misfit National Guard trainees. Of course, the family wasn't equipped with military weaponry. That's what makes this sequel slip into B-territory. Two organized military squads (the trained squad and the trainee squad sent to save them) are somehow wiped out by mutant cannibals. Sure, the trainees make a lot of dumb mistakes, but still, the machine guns and protective armor should have given them an edge. Also, the angle that made the original so interesting (miners turned mutants thanks to nuclear testing) is gone in this sequel. There's no suspense, no twists, no creepy gas station attendants, no underdogs fighting for survival. There's just a bunch of weekend warriors and unusually energetic cave dwellers playing war games out in the desert for 90 minutes.