THE CRAVENS SCARE UP THE HILLS HAVE EYES AGAIN

Little did the Carter family know that their horrible encounter with the mutants on the hills of New Mexico would be revisited 10 years later in The Hills Have Eyes 2. When a a unit of National Guard soldiers are sent on a mission to deliver equipment to atomic scientists who have mysteriously disappeared, the mutants are lying in wait.

Horror master and director Wes Craven wrote The Hills Have Eyes in 1977 which became a cult classic and now he’s teamed up with his son Jonathan to write the sequel. Wes says he discovered what father and son had in common when they combined their writing styles.

“I think we both knew we each had a sense of humor that’s vast and all that but also a dark side to it emerged where you’re laughing about something that’s also very sick which I think is a requirement for a film like this. So that was kind of fun to discover. I didn’t know Jonathan has always been a very conservative person, not really. But it was interesting to find that there was that openness to do this kind of wild material.”

Jonathan talks about what his father, the master of horror brought to the writing table.

“He’s a very disturbed man. He’s always seemed so normal. To see him, to watch him or be in the same room with him tackle a scene and to lay it out. To use an example there’s a scene where a soldier is killed in a particular way and I remember taking a pass at the scene and giving it to him and when it came back it was just like the perfect blueprint. I just laughed out loud when I read it. It was so great and exact and so meticulously laid out. It was a master work; it was a master scene so for me I really get to watch a master of the genre work. It was really fun.”

The Hills Have Eyes 2 opens Friday in theaters.