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A horror film by Creator/WesCraven.
Creator/WesCraven and starring Creator/DeeWallace, Creator/MichaelBerryman, and Susan Lanier.
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* NeverTrustATitle: The actual hills do not have eyes.
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* NonIndicativeTitle: The actual hills do not have eyes.
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* BeautyEqualsGoodness: Ruby has no physical deformities and is by far the most attractive member of her evil family; she is also its WhiteSheep who [[spoiler: does anything she can to help the traveling family that the other members of the Clan have victimized]].
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* BeautyEqualsGoodness: Ruby has no physical deformities and is by far the most attractive member of her evil family; the Clan; she is also its WhiteSheep who [[spoiler: does anything she can to help the traveling family that the other members of the Clan her family have victimized]].
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* AnyoneCanDie: Not even the pets were safe. [[spoiler:The director talked about possibly killing off the baby, only for the crew to threaten to leave if this was done]]
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* DaylightHorror: The climax takes place entirely in the daytime, and is no less scary than the darkly-lit scenes that precede it.
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%%* AutoErotica
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* AxeCrazy: Most of the Clan, but especially Jupiter and Mars.
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* MentalHandicapMoralDeficiency: Mercury is clearly mentally handicapped and is a member of a cannibal clan.
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* AssholeVictim: Downplayed. The first two people to die in the film are Fred, who has been an accessory to his son's crimes for years, and Bob, a bigot whose screentime mostly consisted of yelling at his family, throwing around racist slurs, and treating his wife and daughters as incompetents who should be bossed by his (idiot) son. Both are still characterized well-enough that you can feel sorry for them (especially given the horrid nature of their deaths), but they're certainly the least sympathetic members of the cast after the Clan themselves.
* BigScrewedUpFamily: Grandpa Fred's a bitter old man who's lost everything, Papa Jupiter's a sadistic monster who teaches his children to rob and eat travelers, Mama's an alcoholic who abuses her daughter, Mercury's a mentally handicapped simpleton who barely understands that what the family's doing is wrong, Pluto's a PsychopathicManchild with a disfiguring skin condition, Mars is a sociopathic killer and rapist in the same vein as his father, and Ruby, the WhiteSheep, is a traumatized abuse victim who just wants out.
* CainAndAbel:
** According to Fred, Jupiter and his older sister were like this, with her being an angel and him a mutant devil. She died in a house fire when Fred was in town buying supplies; he believes wholeheartedly that Jupiter was the one who set the fire in order to kill her.
** Ruby, for all her terrible upbringing, ultimately turns out more like her aunt than her father, and in the end not only turns on the family but [[spoiler:kills her brother Mars]] before he can add Doug to his list of victims.
* CainAndAbel:
** According to Fred, Jupiter and his older sister were like this, with her being an angel and him a mutant devil. She died in a house fire when Fred was in town buying supplies; he believes wholeheartedly that Jupiter was the one who set the fire in order to kill her.
** Ruby, for all her terrible upbringing, ultimately turns out more like her aunt than her father, and in the end not only turns on the family but [[spoiler:kills her brother Mars]] before he can add Doug to his list of victims.
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* TheFamilyThatSlaysTogether: Jupiter's family are thieves, kidnappers, cannibals, and murderers.
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* TheFamilyThatSlaysTogether: Jupiter's family are thieves, kidnappers, cannibals, murderers, and murderers.cannibals.
* HillbillyHorrors: A classic of the genre, with a middle class family menaced by a deformed CannibalClan in rural desert Nevada.
* NobleBigotWithABadge: This is likely how the elder Bob is supposed to be seen, though he doesn't [[spoiler:last long enough to really demonstrate the "noble" part.]]
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* RedRightHand: Papa Jupiter's split nose, which he got when his father tried to kill him with a tire iron.
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* RedRightHand: Papa Jupiter's has a split nose, which he got when his nose and a scarred face, while Pluto has a disfiguring skin condition. The former was the result of Jupiter's father tried trying to kill him with a tire iron.iron, the latter is something Pluto was born with, and both act as signifiers of their owners' evil.
* TheSociopath: Mars checks off the entire list for both the trope and real life Antisocial Personality Disorder.
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* WhiteSheep: Ruby's the one decent person in a family of robbers, killers, and cannibals.
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* ColdBloodedTorture: Jupiter inflicts this on Bob, crucifying him and then setting him on fire.
* CruelAndUnusualDeath: Bob is crucified then burned at the stake.
* CruelAndUnusualDeath: Bob is crucified then burned at the stake.
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* EnfanteTerrible: Grandpa Fred saw Jupiter this way and treated him accordingly.
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* EnfanteTerrible: Grandpa Fred saw Jupiter this way and treated him accordingly. There's little to suggest that he was wrong to do so.
* GoodScarsEvilScars: Jupiter's face is horribly disfigured by the extensive scarring that resulted from Fred hitting him with a tire iron.
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* TheLoad: Bobby spends most the film being utterly useless, but refusing to relinquish the gun his father gave him to someone who can actually shoot.
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* TheLoad: Bobby spends most the film being utterly useless, but refusing to relinquish the gun his father gave him to someone who can actually shoot. In the climax he finally helps Brenda, but the best he can do is aid her in executing her plan after he fails to think of anything.
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* AbusiveParents: Jupiter and Mama to Ruby, who they chain up and emotionally abuse for daring to run away. Given how afraid Pluto and Mars are of him, it's more than likely that Jupiter has been violent towards them as well--and in any case, raising them to be cannibalistic killers is pretty abusive in and of itself.
* AxeCrazy: Most of the Clan, but especially Jupiter and Mars.
* EnfanteTerrible: Grandpa Fred saw Jupiter this way and treated him accordingly.
* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: Jupiter is furious when his sons Mercury and Pluto are respectively killed and wounded. Pluto also seems to have cared about Mercury, playfully bantering with him when he was alive, and seeming genuinely distressed by his death.
* EvilCripple: Pluto's actor, Michael Berryman, suffers from Hypohidrotic ectodermal dysplasia, a serious skin condition that causes you to be born with little to no hair, fingernails, teeth, and sweat glands, the latter three of which can be very disabling. Given that the Clan are supposed to be genetically malformed, it's likely that Pluto too suffers from some version of this condition.
* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: Jupiter is furious when his sons Mercury and Pluto are respectively killed and wounded. Pluto also seems to have cared about Mercury, playfully bantering with him when he was alive, and seeming genuinely distressed by his death.
* EvilCripple: Pluto's actor, Michael Berryman, suffers from Hypohidrotic ectodermal dysplasia, a serious skin condition that causes you to be born with little to no hair, fingernails, teeth, and sweat glands, the latter three of which can be very disabling. Given that the Clan are supposed to be genetically malformed, it's likely that Pluto too suffers from some version of this condition.
* FreudianExcuse:
** Grandpa Fred treated Papa Jupiter as a freak from the day he was born, blaming him for his wife's death, and finally, after a housefire killed Jupiter's sister, maiming him with a tire iron and leaving him to die in the desert. Whether this made Jupiter into who he is, or if Fred is right and Jupiter was born a monster is up to the audience.
** Pluto, Mars, and Mercury were raised by Jupiter, and have taken on his views of the world. It's not surprising they are what they are; it would be shocking if they tried to be anything else.
** Grandpa Fred treated Papa Jupiter as a freak from the day he was born, blaming him for his wife's death, and finally, after a housefire killed Jupiter's sister, maiming him with a tire iron and leaving him to die in the desert. Whether this made Jupiter into who he is, or if Fred is right and Jupiter was born a monster is up to the audience.
** Pluto, Mars, and Mercury were raised by Jupiter, and have taken on his views of the world. It's not surprising they are what they are; it would be shocking if they tried to be anything else.
* ParentalAbandonment: Fred hit Jupiter in the face with a tire iron, then left him to die in the desert.
* {{Patricide}}: Jupiter kills his father for trying to flee the area.
* PetTheDog: Pluto's interactions with the mentally handicapped Mercury serve to humanize him to some extent. Jupiter's rage over Mercury's death is a retroactive one for him.
* {{Patricide}}: Jupiter kills his father for trying to flee the area.
* PetTheDog: Pluto's interactions with the mentally handicapped Mercury serve to humanize him to some extent. Jupiter's rage over Mercury's death is a retroactive one for him.
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* PsychopathicManchild: Pluto acts like a child, throwing a temper tantrum and destroying a table in the RV when [[spoiler:Mars throws him off of Brenda to rape her himself.]]]] Mercury is even more immature, presenting as a mentally handicapped four year old.
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* {{Sadist}}: Jupiter and Mars both enjoy taking their time with their victims, with the former being a torturer and the latter a rapist.
* SelfMadeOrphan: Jupiter killed his mother in childbirth and his father during the events of the film.
* SelfMadeOrphan: Jupiter killed his mother in childbirth and his father during the events of the film.
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* AnAxeToGrind: Brenda puts a hatchet in [[spoiler:Jupiter]]'s back during the climax.
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* SonOfAWhore: Jupiter's wife, referred to only as "Mama", is said to be a former prostitute by Grandpa Fred, making Mars, Mercury, Pluto, and Ruby all children of a whore.
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* ActionPet: Beast, who is the single most competent member of the cast, scaring the Devil out of Jupiter's family whenever he appears, bringing Doug the radio he stole from Mercury so that they can listen in on Jupiter's plans, and killing not one, but two members of the CannibalClan.
* ActionSurvivor: [[spoiler:Doug, Brenda, and Bobby]] make it out of the movie, after dispatching Jupiter and Mars.
* ActionSurvivor: [[spoiler:Doug, Brenda, and Bobby]] make it out of the movie, after dispatching Jupiter and Mars.
* TheAlcoholic: Mama, Jupiter's wife, is perpetually hammered, and sits out the climax due to being in a drunken stupor.
* DragonTheirFeet: Jupiter leaves Mars behind at the camp to watch Ruby and Katie while he and Pluto confront the surviving family members. Pluto is crippled by Beast along the route, and is also abandoned by Jupiter, who confronts Bobby and Brenda alone. The order of deaths ends up being Pluto (killed by Beast while he tries to recuperate), Jupiter (killed by Brenda and Bobby when he attacks the trailer), and finally, Mars (killed by Ruby and Doug when the latter attacks the clan's camp).
* TheFamilyThatSlaysTogether: Jupiter's family are thieves, kidnappers, cannibals, and murderers.
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* HeroicDog: Beast, one of the German Shepherds. Though perhaps "antiheroic" would be a better description, given he's a RightHandAttackDog who happens to be one of the good guys.
* RapeAndRevenge: A variant. [[spoiler:Brenda]] is raped by Mars. After recovering enough from the trauma to be coherent, she is the one who devises the plan to kill not her attacker but, his even more monstrous father, whom she first tries to have dragged by a car and impaled, then tries to blow up, and finally settles for crippling with an axe while her brother shoots him.
* RightHandAttackDog: Beast may be owned by the protagonists, but he otherwise fits the trope to a T, being a barely restrained killing machine with a history of mauling other people's pets. Early in the film, Brenda and her mother discuss an incident where Beast killed a neighbour's poodle, leaving them with the vet bill.
* ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill: [[spoiler:Mars]] is stabbed a dozen times by Doug after already being incapacitated by the snake Ruby threw at him. [[spoiler:Papa Jupiter]] is dragged by a car, blown up, crippled (and probably mortally wounded) by an axe blow, and the finally shot to death.
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* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Jupiter's wife sits out the film's climax due to being in a drunken stupor. She's never seen again.
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* CannibalClan: One of the most famous in film. When they don't have enough money to buy or barter for food, Jupiter's family eat dogs and their fellow human beings.
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* DecoyProtagonist: [[spoiler: Big Bob dies first. Even his son Bobby, who survives, becomes a supporting character. It is the son-in-law, Doug, the bespectacled, physically relatively weaker one who is the real Hero.]]
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* DecoyProtagonist: [[spoiler: Big [[spoiler:Big Bob dies first. Even his son Bobby, who survives, becomes a supporting character. It is the son-in-law, Doug, the bespectacled, physically relatively weaker one who is the real Hero.]]
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* ItsPersonalWithTheDragon:
** Doug's hatred of Mars becomes deeply personal after the latter kills his wife, kills his mother-in-law, rapes his sister-in-law, and kidnaps his daughter so that she can be eaten. It's hardly surprising that the final confrontation of the film is between the two of them.
** Beast seems to have it in for Pluto following Beauty's death and goes out of his way to harass the mutant wherever he goes, ultimately killing him.
** Doug's hatred of Mars becomes deeply personal after the latter kills his wife, kills his mother-in-law, rapes his sister-in-law, and kidnaps his daughter so that she can be eaten. It's hardly surprising that the final confrontation of the film is between the two of them.
** Beast seems to have it in for Pluto following Beauty's death and goes out of his way to harass the mutant wherever he goes, ultimately killing him.
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* GeniusBruiser: Okay, "genius" may be going a bit far, but Jupiter and his boys are ''far'' more intelligent than most slasher movie villains. They keep a watch on the land surrounding their home, they communicate with walkie-talkies, they lay traps and provide distractions when they attack the trailer [[spoiler:by setting Big Bob on fire]] and try dividing their prey before they attack.
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* SmarterThanYouLook: They're not geniuses but Jupiter and his boys (barring the handicapped Mercury) are ''far'' more intelligent than most slasher movie villains (or most stereotypical rednecks). They keep a watch on the land surrounding their home, they communicate with walkie-talkies, they lay traps and provide distractions when they attack the trailer [[spoiler:by setting Big Bob on fire]] and try dividing their prey before they attack.
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Brenda's traumatized but she's still the one who comes up with the plan that gets rid of Jupiter
* AnAxeToGrind: Brenda puts a hatchet in [[spoiler:Jupiter]]'s back during the climax.
* AnimalAssassin: Ruby uses a rattlesnake to poison [[spoiler:Mars]].
* AnimalAssassin: Ruby uses a rattlesnake to poison [[spoiler:Mars]].
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* ImperialStormtrooperMarksmanshipAcademy: Bobby could not hit water if he fell out of a boat. It's not until the very end that he's able to hit [[spoiler:Jupiter]], who is a wounded, nigh-immobilized target.
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* TheLoad: Bobby spends most the film being utterly useless, but refusing to relinquish the gun his father gave him to someone who can actually shoot.
* {{Mutants}}: Papa Jupiter was twenty pounds at birth and the size of his father at the age of ten. His children (save for Ruby) are just asfreaky.freaky, with Pluto being the most visibly different.
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* PapaWolf: Jupiter is a villainous example. He is enraged when he finds out that [[spoiler:Mercury was pushed off the cliff]], and orders Mars to kill [[spoiler:Katie]] when Beast bites open [[spoiler:Pluto's ankle]]. Doug is a more traditional example, [[spoiler:stabbing Mars to death for even trying to kill his infant daughter.]]
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* KnifeNut: Pluto starts out with some sort of handmade dagger, which he later ditches for a combat knife. Mars wields a bayonet.
* PapaWolf: Jupiter is a villainous example. He is enraged when he finds out that [[spoiler:Mercury was pushed off the cliff]], and orders Mars to kill [[spoiler:Katie]] when Beast bites open [[spoiler:Pluto's ankle]]. Doug is a more traditional example, [[spoiler:stabbing Mars to death for even trying to kill his infant daughter.]]
* PoorCommunicationKills: The family could have been much more prepared for the cannibals' assault if Bobby had just told them what was wrong. Obviously, he was in shock, but he refused to say anything about it to anyone but Doug, until he finally spills his guts to both him and Lynn. And by then, it's already too late.
* RasputinianDeath: [[spoiler:Big Bob is crucified by a pair of wooden spikes, then set on fire, and when he's put out, he finally suffocates on the smoke he inhaled.]]
* RasputinianDeath: [[spoiler:Big Bob is crucified by a pair of wooden spikes, then set on fire, and when he's put out, he finally suffocates on the smoke he inhaled.]]
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* OffingTheOffspring: Jupiter's father ''tried'' to do this to him when he murdered his mother and sister as a boy. He failed.
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* {{Mutants}}: Papa Jupiter was twenty pounds at birth and the size of his father at the age of ten. His children (save for Ruby) are just as freaky.
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->''The lucky ones die first.''
-->-- '''Tagline'''
A horror film by Creator/WesCraven.
A typical American family is on vacation and cut through the desert to save time, but end up stranded in the middle of it when their RV crashes. They are soon besieged by a family of cannibals.
It can be seen as a [[WhatDoYouMeanItsNotSymbolic statement]] on what people will do to survive and how the family unit can be corrupted, or a hardcore {{Gorn}} flick with some genuinely disturbing images.
A [[Film/TheHillsHaveEyesPartII sequel]] was released in 1984. There's also a [[Film/TheHillsHaveEyes2006 remake]], which was released in 2006.
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* AnyoneCanDie: Not even the pets were safe. [[spoiler:The director talked about possibly killing off the baby, only for the crew to threaten to leave if this was done]]
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%%* BaldOfEvil: Pluto
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* BigBad: Papa Jupiter and his children. [[spoiler: Ruby does a HeelFaceTurn.]]
* ChekhovsGun: Ethel won't stop talking about [[ReptilesAreAbhorrent rattlesnakes]]. [[spoiler: Guess what kills Mars.]]
* DeadlyRoadTrip: The premise.
* DecoyProtagonist: [[spoiler: Big Bob dies first. Even his son Bobby, who survives, becomes a supporting character. It is the son-in-law, Doug, the bespectacled, physically relatively weaker one who is the real Hero.]]
* DrivenToSuicide: Attempted with a noose, only to be foiled and subsequently replaced with a worse death.
* EvilDetectingDog: The two German Shepherds that characters have with them.
* FadeToWhite: [[spoiler:The film fades to ''red'' as Doug violently kills the remaining cannibal]].
* FeudingFamilies: On this side, the civilized family. On this side, the cannibal clan. Winner takes all. Loser is dinner.
* GratuitousRape: A very shoddily done example that could have easily been cut out without changing a thing.
* HandCannon: Big Bob's weapon of choice
* HeroicDog: Beast, one of the German Shepherds.
* HollywoodCB:
-->'''Ethel:''' Testing, testing... Maypole, maypole... This is Mama Bear Carter calling, do any of your bears have your ears up?... Gosh, I can't seem to remember how this works.
-->'''Lynne:''' It's "mayday", mom, not "maypole".
* ImAHumanitarian: ''"I wanna eat the baby!"''
* KickTheDog: Poor Beauty...
* KillItWithFire: [[spoiler:The villains crucify Big Bob]], and set him on fire.
* PleaseDontLeaveMe: [[spoiler: Doug sobs this when he finds his wife's body.]]
* RedRightHand: Papa Jupiter's split nose, which he got when his father tried to kill him with a tire iron.
%%* SuperWindowJump
* TakeThat: The torn poster for ''Film/{{Jaws}}'' in the background, essentially the film marking its territory as being scarier than that one. Creator/SamRaimi took some offense to this and featured a similarly torn poster for ''Hills'' in ''Film/TheEvilDead1981'', which began a long running feud between the two directors referencing each other's films.
* TalkingToTheDead: Papa Jupiter talks about how his family will devour the outsiders to [[spoiler:Big Bob's severed head]].
* ThemeNaming: All of the males in the original's cannibal family are named after planets; Ruby, the only female child, is the odd one out [[spoiler:and the one who makes a HeelFaceTurn]].
* TooDumbToLive: The family that gets caught. They are ''warned'' to stay on the main road. What do they do? Go off it almost immediately.
%%* TownWithADarkSecret
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[[caption-width-right:354:''They wanted to see something different, but something different saw them first!'']]
->''The lucky ones die first.''
-->-- '''Tagline'''
A horror film by Creator/WesCraven.
A typical American family is on vacation and cut through the desert to save time, but end up stranded in the middle of it when their RV crashes. They are soon besieged by a family of cannibals.
It can be seen as a [[WhatDoYouMeanItsNotSymbolic statement]] on what people will do to survive and how the family unit can be corrupted, or a hardcore {{Gorn}} flick with some genuinely disturbing images.
A [[Film/TheHillsHaveEyesPartII sequel]] was released in 1984. There's also a [[Film/TheHillsHaveEyes2006 remake]], which was released in 2006.
!!This film has examples of:
* AnyoneCanDie: Not even the pets were safe. [[spoiler:The director talked about possibly killing off the baby, only for the crew to threaten to leave if this was done]]
%%* AutoErotica
%%* BaldOfEvil: Pluto
%%* BeardOfEvil: Papa Jupiter
* BigBad: Papa Jupiter and his children. [[spoiler: Ruby does a HeelFaceTurn.]]
* ChekhovsGun: Ethel won't stop talking about [[ReptilesAreAbhorrent rattlesnakes]]. [[spoiler: Guess what kills Mars.]]
* DeadlyRoadTrip: The premise.
* DecoyProtagonist: [[spoiler: Big Bob dies first. Even his son Bobby, who survives, becomes a supporting character. It is the son-in-law, Doug, the bespectacled, physically relatively weaker one who is the real Hero.]]
* DrivenToSuicide: Attempted with a noose, only to be foiled and subsequently replaced with a worse death.
* EvilDetectingDog: The two German Shepherds that characters have with them.
* FadeToWhite: [[spoiler:The film fades to ''red'' as Doug violently kills the remaining cannibal]].
* FeudingFamilies: On this side, the civilized family. On this side, the cannibal clan. Winner takes all. Loser is dinner.
* GratuitousRape: A very shoddily done example that could have easily been cut out without changing a thing.
* HandCannon: Big Bob's weapon of choice
* HeroicDog: Beast, one of the German Shepherds.
* HollywoodCB:
-->'''Ethel:''' Testing, testing... Maypole, maypole... This is Mama Bear Carter calling, do any of your bears have your ears up?... Gosh, I can't seem to remember how this works.
-->'''Lynne:''' It's "mayday", mom, not "maypole".
* ImAHumanitarian: ''"I wanna eat the baby!"''
* KickTheDog: Poor Beauty...
* KillItWithFire: [[spoiler:The villains crucify Big Bob]], and set him on fire.
* PleaseDontLeaveMe: [[spoiler: Doug sobs this when he finds his wife's body.]]
* RedRightHand: Papa Jupiter's split nose, which he got when his father tried to kill him with a tire iron.
%%* SuperWindowJump
* TakeThat: The torn poster for ''Film/{{Jaws}}'' in the background, essentially the film marking its territory as being scarier than that one. Creator/SamRaimi took some offense to this and featured a similarly torn poster for ''Hills'' in ''Film/TheEvilDead1981'', which began a long running feud between the two directors referencing each other's films.
* TalkingToTheDead: Papa Jupiter talks about how his family will devour the outsiders to [[spoiler:Big Bob's severed head]].
* ThemeNaming: All of the males in the original's cannibal family are named after planets; Ruby, the only female child, is the odd one out [[spoiler:and the one who makes a HeelFaceTurn]].
* TooDumbToLive: The family that gets caught. They are ''warned'' to stay on the main road. What do they do? Go off it almost immediately.
%%* TownWithADarkSecret
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