Michael McMillian, Jessica Stroup, Daniella Alonso

The Plot:

  A group of National Guardsmen are getting a crash course in mountain assault combat in the Nevadan desert when they receive an order to re-supply a group of civilian scientists that are working on a unused proving ground for nuclear weapons. It seems that the scientists were installing a high-tech motion detection system after the recent mysterious disappearance of an American family (a reference to The Hills Have Eyes – 2006) who “accidentally” stumbled into the secure area. Upon arriving at the camp the troops find the scientists’ camp seemingly empty. 
  Of course things are not what they seem as everyone’s favorite inbred hill folk have already attacked and killed most of the scientists and their original military escorts, leaving our National Guard protagonists to deal with the situation. 

The Point:

  As I watched this movie I was bewildered by just how terrible it was to watch. Don’t get me wrong, the movie wasn’t bad in the sense that it was a tremendous strain on my suspension of disbelief (at least not anymore than can be expected for a horror movie like this), rather it was bad in the pure quality of decisions the characters made. All of us have been so enthralled by a movie at some point so as to scream warnings and advice at the screen. But with The Hills Have Eyes II the tendency is not so much to scream as to gawk at the characters abject inability to sense and react to danger.
  Its up in the air whether the vaudeville antics of the unlikely soldiers was purely for comic relief or if there was some sort of veiled commentary on the role of “citizen soldiers.” In any case the troops are dispatched with an embarrassing regularity.
  One thing this movie did have that distinguished itself was the opening scene. This scene shows, in as graphically detailed as one can possibly imagine, a woman giving birth to an obviously deformed child. The scene was nothing short of disgusting and I felt compelled to put away the hot dog I was eating. For better or worse when a movie makes me this squeamish, I must take notice.