The Hills Have Eyes: Critic Reviews

100%

MovieWeb: 0 reviews

64%

RottenTomatoes: 24 reviews

Variety Staff Variety (Top Critic)

A satisfying piece of pulp.
Full Review » 4 years ago
TV Guide's Movie Guide

88

One of the prime examples of the what was so fascinating about American horror films in the 1970s.
Full Review » 1 year ago
Charles Cassady Common Sense Media

40

Beware! 70s horror film is ultra violent.
Full Review » 1 year ago
Cole Smithey ColeSmithey.com

40

Full Review » 6 years ago
Phil Villarreal Arizona Daily Star

63

As disgusting as the movie is, the ride is never dull, but there's no need to take on the film to begin with unless there's something a little off inside your head.
Full Review » 6 years ago
Derek Adams Time Out

A heady mix of ironic allegory and seat-edge tension.
Full Review » 6 years ago
Emanuel Levy EmanuelLevy.Com

40

Full Review » 7 years ago
Christopher Null Filmcritic.com

50

Craven paints an interesting and uniquely bloody study of how 'normal' people will descend to the lowest depths in order to save themselves, but you'll have to suffer through a lot of tedium to get there.
Full Review » 8 years ago
Matt Brunson Creative Loafing

63

Even a dog has his day, and among the few tolerable features helmed by Craven is this early cult item.
Full Review » 9 years ago
Bob Bloom Journal and Courier (Lafayette, IN)

Full Review » 9 years ago
Walter Chaw Film Freak Central

63

As a mirror to the low-fi, sci-fi hero journey of Star Wars, however, The Hills Have Eyes is the far less damaging to its respective genre.
Full Review » 9 years ago
Eric Henderson Slant Magazine

63

Craven's latent sick streak gets a major workout here, and the rudest shocks seem to center around the "good" family's parental figures.
Full Review » 9 years ago
David Nusair Reel Film Reviews

50

...a sporadically effective Texas Chain Saw Massacre rip-off.
Full Review » 9 years ago
Marjorie Baumgarten Austin Chronicle

Inventive story ideas and humorous touches give this horror picture an enduring relevancy and stylistic flourish.
Full Review » 9 years ago
Mark Palermo Coast (Halifax, Nova Scotia)

80

Full Review » 9 years ago
Nicolas Lacroix Showbizz.net

60

Full Review » 10 years ago
Brian J. Arthurs Beach Reporter (Southern California)

80

Full Review » 10 years ago
Ken Hanke Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)

60

Intensely creepy, but too unpleasant to really like
Full Review » 10 years ago
Cory Cheney Urban Tulsa Weekly

40

Full Review » 10 years ago
Scott Weinberg eFilmCritic.com

90

Craven's best movie that doesn't have the word "Texas" in the title.
Full Review » 10 years ago
David Poland Hot Button

40

Full Review » 10 years ago
Steven Jay Schneider Senses of Cinema

Full Review » 10 years ago
Rob Gonsalves eFilmCritic.com

80

There's a difference between reiterating a theme and repeating what worked before, and you feel the line drawn here.
Full Review » 12 years ago
Dennis Schwartz Ozus' World Movie Reviews

67

It has become a cult-status film...
Full Review » 12 years ago