Hills Have Eyes, The (1977) [reclassified 2020]

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Synopsis

Horror. After their car breaks down in the desert, a family (Suze Lanier-Bramlett, Robert Houston, Martin Speer, Dee Wallace, Russ Grieve, Virginia Vincent) must fight off a group of mutant hillbillies (James Whitworth, Lance Gordon, Michael Berryman, Janis Blythe, Cordy Clark).

Content elements

• infrequent use of sexual and ethno-cultural slurs
• Infrequent portrayals of hand-to-hand, gun, and weapons violence - some blood, little detail; infrequent portrayals of violence against animals - some blood and detail
• Infrequent portrayals of sexual assault - no nudity or detail
• Infrequent portrayals of alcohol and tobacco use

Thematic elements

• Group dynamics under pressure
• Survival

Classification rationale

Rated 14A for violence and coarse language

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