Director: Wes CravenNotable Cast: Tamara Stafford, Kevin Spirtas, John Laughlin, Willard Pugh, Peter Frechette, Colleen Riley, Penny Johnson, Janus Blythe, Robert Houston, Michael Berryman, John Bloom
At first glance, all looks great going into this sequel. Wes Craven, director of the original 1977 disturbing classic, returns as both writer and director not to mention he is hot off his smash hit A Nightmare on Elm Street. This sequel is going to be mega badass... right? Right? Oh God Damn it... The Hills Have Eyes Part II just further proves that the creators of the original are just as bad at making ultra shitty sequels as the next guy.
Taking place seven years after the original, we open with one of the survivors talking to a psychologist about the horror he went through. Can anyone cue in the "flashback" theme? Get used to it as this film is loaded with 'em. It seems he has invented a new type of racing fuel but is too shaken up to ride with his motocross team across the desert to premier his new formula. His girlfriend, the surviving cannibal daughter from the original film that turned on her family, decides to travel with the motocross team instead. They end up running late to their race and... duh duh duh.... decide to take a desolate dirt road short cut across the desert. From there, it's all predictable for you to connect the dots as their bus breaks down and they run into a few surviving members of the notorious cannibal family.