| Hillside Cannibals | |
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| Directed by | Leigh Scott |
| Written by | Steve Bevilacqua |
| Produced by | David Michael Latt David Rimawi Paul Bales |
| Starring | Heather Conforto Tom Nagel Katayoun Dara Vaz Andreas Frank Pacheco Erica Roby |
| Cinematography | Lincoln Lewis |
| Edited by | Peter Mervis |
| Music by | Mel Lewis |
| Distributed by | The Asylum |
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Running time | 86 minutes [1] |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| 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 .
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.
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]