Fridae

This is the horror film that has gotten many horror fans in America
wild with excitement. A remake of Wes Craven's 1970s cult slasher,
it is about a nice and ordinary family who go on a cross-country
trip in the US. The father (Ted Levine) decides to take a shortcut
on a desert road but winds up in an abandoned atomic test site where
a family of radiation-mutated savages hides.

Like the recent spate of unbearably gruesome horror flicks (Saw,
Saw II, Wolf Creek), The Hills Have Eyes
takes pride in showing you every little gory detail of the killings.
The mutant cannibals?violent dismemberment and feasting of innocent
victims usually take place in broad daylight, so you can see how
every body part is being chewed on.

Yucks. Indeed, horror movies that take place in dark shadowy landscapes
are no longer in vogue. These days, horror directors want to traumatize
you with vivid, close-up images of blood and bones, giving you the
experience of actually being there yourself. Let us hope, however,
that this trend of extreme gore-fests will not last. After all,
audiences can get equally frightened when they are asked to use
their own imaginations.