The Hills Have Eyes (Wes Craven, 1977)

***½
USA



Wes Craven pits a family of sunny Republican-voters against one of mutant cannibals in a remote stretch of Californian desert. It's only his second feature, but he's already built up the perfect sensibility for this kind of thing. It's cheap, it's gory, it's nerve-racking and sometimes funny in a very nasty way .