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Hillside Cannibals
DVD cover
Directed byLeigh Scott
Written bySteve Bevilacqua
Produced byDavid Michael Latt
David Rimawi
Paul Bales
StarringHeather Conforto
Tom Nagel
Katayoun Dara
Vaz Andreas
Frank Pacheco
Erica Roby
CinematographyLincoln Lewis
Edited byPeter Mervis
Music byMel Lewis
Distributed byThe Asylum
Release date
  • March 28, 2006 (2006-03-28)
Running time
86 minutes [1]
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Budget$600,000

Hillside Cannibals is a 2006 American horror film directed by Leigh Scott and produced by The Asylum.[1] 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 (Leigh Scott), 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."[2] 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".[3]

See also

References

  1. ^ a b Hillside Cannibals (DVD) (Motion Picture). The Asylum Home Entertainment. 2006. OCLC 291090640. Retrieved July 18, 2020.
  2. ^ "Hillside Cannibals (2006)". Dread Central. 29 March 2006. Retrieved 2016-02-07.
  3. ^ Sham. "Hillside Cannibals". HorrorTalk. Archived from the original on 2017-09-28. Retrieved 2016-02-07.