The Hills Have Eyes is a 2006 remake of Wes Craven's film of the same name. It was released in theaters in the US and UK on 10th March, 2006 and received $15,500,000 on its opening weekend. In the US it was originally rated NC-17 for strong gruesome violence, including rape, terror, and strong language, but was later edited to be released under an R-rating.

The plot of the movie follows the Carters, a family taking a route through the New Mexico desert on their way to San Diego, California for a family vacation. Ethel (Quinlan) and Bob (Levine) are celebrating their anniversary; in doing so, they decide to bring along the entire family, Lynne's husband Doug (Stanford) and Lynne and Doug's baby daughter Catherine, as well as their two dogs Beauty and Beast.

Unknown to the family and the public, deep in the hills of the desert lives a psychotic mutated family. Their bodies are severely disfigured from the nuclear testing done in the area by the government in the 1950s. The miners who lived within the testing ground refused to leave their land and hid in their mines during the testing. With everything destroyed from the nuclear weapons, the mutated family lives in the model test homes in the area, originally meant to test the effects of the explosion. Angry about their destroyed land, they are hostile towards any outsiders and make a deal with the local gas station attendant to have him lure unsuspecting people into the hills, while giving the attendant the victims' jewelry and valuables in exchange.

While at the gas station, the Carters take the attendant's advice to take a "short cut" through a back road that would take them to the hills. What the family does not know is that they are being set up for a brutal and bloody surprise. While driving along the dirt path, their tires are blown out with spikes laid out by the mutated family, leaving them stranded miles from civilization and in an area with no cell phone reception.

They soon realize that they are not alone in the desert, and they are attacked by the mutated family. Struggling for survival, the family is forced to fight back with the motivation of revenge and the rescue of the kidnapped baby Catherine.

Although, the film is a commercial sucess taking in, as of April 2, 2006, a total of 39.0 million dollars and playing in 2,461 theatures in the United States Box Office, it has only a 49% freshness rating at rottentomatoes.com. Ebert and Roeper have also given the movie two thumbs down. Roeper has said, "I apreciate a quality kill and a good jolt of the senses as well as anybody... but this is an ugly slice of splatter porn that simply wore me out." Even with these put downs The Hills Have Eyes has been praised by many other critics, such as Ted Fry of The Seattle Times who wrote a review saying, " Consider yourself warned. "The Hills Have Eyes," a brilliantly reimagined version of Wes Craven's 1977 micro-budget horror classic, is unrelenting in its brutality and contains imagery as disturbing as anything seen on mainstream movie screens since "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre" (1974)."

The Hills Have Eyes is currently 12th in the box office rankings, dropping four spots from its position last week.

The soundtrack to this film was released on March 14, 2006 on the label Lakeshore Records.