Wes Craven enjoys a cult reputationsecond only to George Romero's as a director of gruesome horror films that placeordinary people in situations of the most ghastly terror. The Hills Have Eyesdeals with an all-American family at the mercy of cannibal mutants. Trapped on adead-end road in the middle of the Southern California desert, the Carter familyis terrorized by a second family of homicidal cretins in what one critic called"one of the most grisly explosions of murderous fury ever seen on thescreen." The final struggle takes on symbolic significance, with the killersrepresenting all the unseen and unknown forces that threaten us all, at one timeor another. The survivors on both sides include the teenagers, one dog, and ababy, on whose future, it seems, depends the ultimate resolution of the age-oldconflict between good and evil. Definitely not for the squeamish.