The family’s patriarch doubles down on his republican politics, ruthless villains are no longer just smudged with dirt to denote vagrancy, and America’s derelict treatment of bombing site fallouts haunts massive craters. Hordes consider Craven’s The Hills Have Eyes a sunbaked classic, and Aja rises to the challenge of ensuring that historical reverence isn’t sullied nor lazily recreated.Īlexandre Aja and co-writer Grégory Levasseur embellish every detail Craven could not and aim to expand their 2000s The Hills Have Eyes beyond prior-known boundaries. Aja understands remakes are an opportunity to build upon legacies and inject personal flourishes, ensuring that Craven’s namesake is honored yet never regurgitated without reason. Craven’s foundation is fundamental to Aja’s success, but it’s never a direct copycat. Backstories are juicier, the scares are scarier, and the gore is gorier with extreme extrapolation. It’s a wonderfully demented slice of horror history that I proudly own and rewatch, serving as a reminder that remakes aren’t enemies to their originals.Īlexandre Aja‘s 2006 revamp under Fox Searchlight Pictures takes what’s there and mutates pure evils with nuclear negligence. The bones are sturdy but licked cleaner of meatiness, while choppy editing or ’70s technological restraints limit what can be accomplished.
Craven’s 1977 The Hills Have Eyes is a microcosmic take on roadside roving mongrels enacting extreme violence on innocent passersby, and also a prime example of works that could benefit from a remake. The sorely missed master of horror went on to hone his craft as a writer and director, tidying visions and coaxing stronger performances. Silly much of it in fact.Wes Craven‘s The Hills Have Eyesis a seminal “Sunny Scary” horror flick renowned for its cannibalistic hilltop clan, but it certainly presents as one of Craven’s earliest works. There is no question this world needs rock and roll to survive.
But evil doers and children of Satan should not worry – “There are no disco songs on this black wax”, says bassist and aristocrat Burgher.ĭrummer Vicar adds: “Wait til you see the cover! We’ve got a finnish devil worshipper drawing in goat blood… or was it a dog loving metalhead using coffe?” “I can’t say exactly down to the millimeter how far we’re stretching but it contains both the most powerful stuff and the most mellow stuff we’ve attempted to create in the name of rock ‘n’ roll”. “By this album, we’re stretching out in all directions know to man”, singer and guitarist King says. Machine is accompanied by an official video and will be released at the end of august. The powerful cover has been selected, by a scientificly chosen test group of swedish military women, as the second single because it “twisted their knobs”. Or to (kinda…) cite Fred Estby, it’s the “greatest thing since sliced bread”. This classic 80’s sex anthem gets the unique Märvel branding treatment and the band handles it like it was always their first born baby. This album video teaser was released the 15th of July and featured a tasteful bite of the libidinous song. While in the studio, label man extravaganza Björn “Papa Bear” Rallare filmed a trailer showing the band and Mr Estby hard at work recording a cover of W.A.S.P.'s "L.O.V.E. With this instant hit, Märvel stuns their fans by revealing a new musical side without forgetting their energetic rock roots. a horse that whistles the correct notes”. The video for the single is slashed out of 22 old western movies, and the problem was to find ". The collaboration was an instant success, and the result is a powerful album, "The Hills Have Eyes" that will be released worldwide September 18:th 2015, digitally and as a 12" gatefold vinyl.įirst out of the stable was the single and video for the title track "The Hills Have Eyes", a perfect storm of soulful harmonies, pop chords and seventies grooves that was released May 29th 2015. To follow up their critically acclaimed album from last year, Hadal Zone Express, Märvel teamed up with legendary engineer and producer Fred Estby, in his Gutterview Recorders studio.
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