Hillside Cannibals
{{Infobox film
| name = Hillside Cannibals
| image = Hillside Cannibals DVD cover.jpg
| caption = DVD cover
| director = Leigh Scott
| producer = David Michael Latt
David Rimawi
Paul Bales
| writer = Steve Bevilacqua
| narrator =
| starring = Heather Conforto
Tom Nagel
Katayoun Dara
Vaz Andreas
Frank Pacheco
Erica Roby
| music = Mel Lewis
| cinematography = Lincoln Lewis
| editing = Peter Mervis
| distributor = The Asylum
| released = {{Film date|2006|3|28}}
| country = United States
| language = English
| budget = $600,000
| gross =
}}
Hillside Cannibals is a 2006 American horror film directed by Leigh Scott and produced by The Asylum. The film is a mockbuster of the film The Hills Have Eyes, another film released around the same month, but its plot also incorporates elements from other films, including Cannibal Holocaust, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre and House of 1000 Corpses.
Plot
In the year 1606, Sawney Bean, a ruthless psychopath, earned a notoriety as the world's most brutal serial killer, predating Jack the Ripper and Bloody Bill by several hundred years. In life, Sawney was a cannibal, who captured his victims and literally butchered them, feasting on their corpses afterwards.
His practices are continued in the modern day by his in-bred descendants, who dwell in vast caves in the Mojave Desert and feed on the flesh of passers-by, as a group of teenagers soon discover whilst exploring the steep cliff-face where Sawney's descendants dwell in search of flesh.
Cast
- Heather Conforto as Linda
- Tom Nagel as Bill
- Katayoun Dara as Tonya
- Vaz Andreas as Callum
- Frank Pacheco as Magnus
- Erica Roby as Rhiana
- Ella Holden as Amber
- Justin Jones as Mark
- Marie Westbrook as Tog
- Thomas Downey as Towart / Mr. Pratt
- Crystal Napoles as Tearlach
- Chriss Anglin as Ted
- Louis Graham as Sheriff Lachlan
- Leigh Scott as Sawney Bean / David
- Brian J. Garland as Balloch
Reception
Dread Central panned Hillside Cannibal, commenting that they found the film so unenjoyable that getting "stupid drunk" through a proposed drinking game "is probably the best way to get through this ordeal."{{Cite web|title = Hillside Cannibals (2006)|url = https://dreadcentral.com/reviews/4159/hillside-cannibals-2006/|website = Dread Central|date = 29 March 2006|access-date = 2016-02-07|language = en-US}} HorrorTalk also heavily criticized the movie, as they felt that the film had several flaws that were due to lazy film making and that the script was "just terrible".{{Cite web|title = Hillside Cannibals|url = http://www.horrortalk.com/reviews/movie-reviews/392-hillside-cannibals.html|website = HorrorTalk|access-date = 2016-02-07|last = Sham|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20170928193600/https://www.horrortalk.com/reviews/movie-reviews/392-hillside-cannibals.html|archive-date = 2017-09-28|url-status = dead}}
See also
- Death Valley: The Revenge of Bloody Bill - Another horror film by The Asylum based on a real-life killer, in this case, William "Bloody Bill" Anderson.
References
External links
- [http://www.theasylum.cc/product.php?id=114 Hillside Cannibals at The Asylum] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150212071704/http://theasylum.cc/product.php?id=114 |date=2015-02-12 }}
- {{IMDb title|0494712}}
Category:2006 direct-to-video films
Category:2006 independent films
Category:2000s English-language films
Category:American independent films
Category:American slasher films
Category:American serial killer films
Category:Films about cannibalism
Category:Films directed by Leigh Scott
Category:English-language horror films
Category:English-language independent films
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