Considering just how messed up director Damien Leone has made things with his Terrifier trilogy, it's interesting to gauge what impressed the filmmaker in the years before he gave us Art the Clown (David Howard Thornton) and the circus of carnage that came with him. Over on X, Leone took some time out to give props to the 2006 remake of The Hills Have Eyes from Alexandre Aja.
Following in the footsteps of Wes Craven's 1977 road trip from hell, the film sees a family find themselves stranded on a highway, only to be attacked by mutated locals that have cannibalistic tendencies. The 2006 version starred Aaron Stanford, who was recently seen reprising his role as Pyro in Deadpool & Wolverine. Back then, he was the mild-mannered son-in-law, who, after an attack on his family and one of the only remaining survivors, goes on the warpath against the locals that wronged him, resulting in a bloody and brutal attack, while discovering a forgotten nightmare that should've remained lost to the desert.
