The Hills Have Eyes
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Sep 23, 2026
RobHOST
But the story became famous enough to reach Hollywood.
RobHOST
Researching material for his 1977 horror film, The Hills Have Eyes, director Wes Craven came across the Sawney Bean legend.
RobHOST
Craven later said the story of the Bean family became the basis for his film.
RobHOST
And when you look at the basic idea, a family living apart from civilization, attacking strangers who enter their territory and surviving through murder and cannibalism, that connection is pretty obvious.
MonicaHOST
But it's a very famous story.
MonicaHOST
You know, it makes me...
MonicaHOST
Obviously, The Hills Have Eyes.
MonicaHOST
It's a great movie.
BillPANELIST
Down in the cellar of the cabin, there's a rip, you know, an homage to a couple other horror movies.
BillPANELIST
There was a ripped poster of Wes Craven's 1977 The Hills Have Eyes movie.
BillPANELIST
And the bones and the gourds that you see hanging in the shed, it was an homage to the Texas Chainsaw Massacre.
Fabulous BHOST
Okay.
Chris the BrainHOST
It's Michael Berryman.
Chris DePetrilloHOST
Great Michael Berryman that most horror fans, well, all horror fans should remember from The Hills Have Eyes.
Chris DePetrilloHOST
But you know what I always got to kick out of him in, which he was with the great Vernon Wells as well, is that scene in Weird Science as the mutant bikers that crashed the party.
Chris DePetrilloHOST
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WesHOST
I love the B movie style of Charles B Pierce and his movies always, despite budget constraints, seem to have something a little different and unique about them compared with other movies of this era.
WesHOST
He seems to always manage to capture that raw 1970s exploitation edge, similar to films like The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Hills Have Eyes, Last House on the Left, etc.
WesHOST
However, the one thing he seems to almost always lack is the terror and scares of those films in his own ventures.
WesHOST
He seems to get the terror correct in Legend of Boggy Creek and he almost gets it correct in The Town That Dreaded Sundown, but here in The Evictors it just sadly falls flat.
LorraineHOST
But what makes the 1984 original film so bloody special is how deeply personal the terror felt.
LorraineHOST
Myers and Voorhees you know they were very silent they were robotic and everything and they wore masks scary but not as scary I found as Kruger but Freddie he had this he had this massive sadistic personality and he got genuine pleasure in how he made you feel and how scared you were and of course he got you at the most vulnerable moment when your eyes were finally closed and Now the late Wes Craven was the creator of his new horror icon and he had some experience obviously in the horror world with films like The Last House on the Left, The Hills Have Eyes 1 and 2 and Swamp Thing before creating one of the most well-known horror figures that spawned more movies, video games, TV series and novels.
LorraineHOST
I give you A Nightmare on Elm Street.
LorraineHOST
A Nightmare on Elm Street follows a group of teenagers.
Don LahiHOST
Wes Craven has done Nightmare on Elm Street, Last House on the Left from the 70s, The People Under the Stairs, just he's...
Don LahiHOST
The Hills Have Eyes.
Don LahiHOST
He's done just...
Don LahiHOST
He's...
Pete the RetailerHOST
Yeah
John EngelHOST
... from The Hills Have Eyes-
Joe MaiselHOST
Yeah
John EngelHOST
... and One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest.
Anna KeizerHOST
And I love her for that.
Anna KeizerHOST
So way back in the day, she first comes to acclaim in the movie The Hills Have Eyes.
Anna KeizerHOST
Oh, God.
Anna KeizerHOST
Right.
Anna KeizerHOST
Also, I I know this might be a weird way to say this, but I feel like honored her by saying, hey, come come be in my movie, my Halloween 2007.
Anna KeizerHOST
So she's in that.
Derek DehankeHOST
Those were like, what if the Hills Have Eyes were Halloween movies?
Anna KeizerHOST
Exactly.
Jakub FlaszHOST
Right.
Jakub FlaszHOST
The interesting question would be why, but, But I think the idea of just the solo idea of this being close to something like The Hills Have Eyes or Texas Chainsaw Massacre, that's just part of it.
Jakub FlaszHOST
But I think it is important to actually just bring back the Vietnam conversation here despite Walter Hill's pleadings, right? Because, like, imagine if this,
Randy BurrowsHOST
like, you
TimHOST
But, but no, hell yeah.
TimHOST
But pretty much, uh, my four panels is, my four panels are, uh, Michael Berryman, who I'm sup- like, beyond stoked on just because of, you know, The Hills Have Eyes, Devil's Rejects is a big one for me.
TimHOST
He's even in Weird Science.
TimHOST
Uh-
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