The Hills Have Eyes (1977): Watched this low budget classic again and it still packs a punch. A family travelling through Nevada are beset by a clan of inbred cave-dwelling cannibals. Some great lines: " dogs thrown in the well, chickens with their heads bit off", one of the cannibals chiding another about not eating their food: "what's the matter, you don't like dog anymore?"; a threat: "I'll eat the brains of your kids kids". They crucify a man on a cactus and then barbecue him alive,, they kidnap a baby intending to eat it! Luckily the travelling family have a dog that's smarter than Lassie and a lot more vicious. Some really gruesome, bloody scenes. Written and Directed by Wes Craven. On the Horror Channel. 8/10.
Great film! .. and apologies if you already know this Ramon but for anyone reading who hasn't heard this funny story before ..
During a scene in The Hills Have Eyes, a torn JAWS poster can be seen on the wall of the camper van .. Wes Craven put it there for fun to say "As scary as you thought JAWS was, my film tears JAWS in half!"
Sam Raimi noticed this so when he made The Evil Dead, a torn The Hills Have Eyes poster can be seen on the wall of the cellar, Sam Raimi saying to Wes "My film The Evil Dead is so scary, it tears your The Hills Have Eyes in half!"
Wes Craven spotted this so during a scene where Nancy's trying to stay awake in the first "A Nightmare On Elm Street", the TV set in the background in her bedroom is playing The Evil Dead. Nancy starts nodding off in the scene and switches the TV set off.
Sam Raimi spotted this so when he came to make Evil Dead 2, Freddy Kruger's glove can be seen hanging on the wall in the background as set dressing a couple of times ...
Wes Craven spotted this so, in a scene where the teenagers are choosing a video to watch, The Evil Dead being one of the choices, the teens vote to watch Halloween instead ..
Sam Raimi spotted this so ....... in Ash vs Evil Dead, in an episode where Ash goes back to the cabin, the Freddy Kruger glove is still hanging there. In a later episode, Ash time travels back to 1982 and guess which film poster is on the wall of a cinema in a background shot .. yep .. a complete The Hills Have Eyes Poster. Wes Craven had passed away at this point to it was Sam Raimi's final gesture of respect ..
edit: The only other time I'm aware of that Sam Raimi and Wes Craven shared the same horror universe was in John Carpenter's horror anthology 'Body Bags'. Raimi is seen once in a framed photograph on the wall of an all night petrol station with the words 'Employee Of The Month' on it and again later as the same employee but as a corpse tumbling out of a locker. Craven has a speaking part as a creepy drunk customer turning up there on the same night.