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* {{Flashback}}: Portions of the film are made out of footage from the original in form of flashbacks to pad out time and complete the film, since production was shut down before everything could be shot.


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* FinalGirl: [[HandicappedBadass Cass]]
* {{Flashback}}: Portions of the film are made out of footage from the original in form of flashbacks to pad out time and complete the film, since production was shut down before everything could be shot.
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* IdiotBall: The film happens because everyone on the tour bus holds it together - the reason they have to take the shortcut that leads them to being attacked by the Reaper is because ''none of them'' remembered to adjust their watches for Daylight Savings Time.
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* KnifeNut: Pluto always brandishes his knife when he attempts to attack someone, but it always fails to connect.
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* BucketBoobyTrap: Deciding the spend a night in one of the building around the abandoned mine, our cast puts a bucket over a door in case that anyone tries to sneak on them. It does end being triggered, but nobody gets to see it.

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* BucketBoobyTrap: Deciding the to spend a night in one of the building around the abandoned mine, our cast puts a bucket over a door in case that anyone tries to sneak up on them. It does end up being triggered, but nobody gets to see it.



* DecoyProtagonist: The film starts with Bobby from the first film as he talks to his psychiatrist and seems to be the protagonist until he decides to not participate in the trip. Rachel (Ruby from the first film) then takes his place and is set up as the protagonist. [[spoiler:Until she is killed by a trap. Roy, Cass and arguably Beast are real protagonists]].

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* DecoyProtagonist: The film starts with Bobby from the first film as he talks to his psychiatrist and seems to be the protagonist until he decides to not participate in the trip. Rachel (Ruby from the first film) then takes his place and is set up as the protagonist. [[spoiler:Until she is killed by a trap. Roy, Cass Cass, and arguably Beast Beast, are the real protagonists]].



* DisneyVillainDeath: Pluto meets his end when he is pushed down a cliff by his old nemesis Beast the dog.

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* DisneyVillainDeath: Pluto meets his end when he is pushed down a cliff by his old nemesis nemesis, Beast the dog.



* GroinAttack: After Sue finds Foster ogling at naked Jane in the shower and talking crap about her behind her back, she kicks him in the nuts and also slaps him.

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* GroinAttack: After Sue finds Foster ogling at a naked Jane in the shower and talking crap about her behind her back, she kicks him in the nuts and also slaps him.



* PeekABooCorpse: Jane gets a scare when Foster, with a hatchet buried on his head, falls out of a closet on her.

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* PeekABooCorpse: Jane gets a scare when Foster, with a hatchet buried on in his head, falls out of a closet on her.






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* AnyoneCanDie:[[spoiler:Not even Ruby from previous film is spared.]]

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* AnyoneCanDie:[[spoiler:Not AnyoneCanDie: [[spoiler:Not even Ruby from the previous film is spared.]]
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* SameLanguageDub: John Bloom (Reaper) had his lines looped by Nicholas Worth due to Creator/WesCraven considering his voice to not be intimidating enough.
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* RememberTheNewGuy: The Reaper is Papa Jupiter's brother, but in the first movie, Fred says that he and his wife only had one daughter before Jupiter's mother died giving birth to him, leaving him alone with his son and daughter. This adds to the FanonDiscontinuity and CanonDiscontinuity feelings about the movie.
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* {{Flashback}}: Portions of the film are made out of footage from the original in form of flashbacks to pad out time.

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* {{Flashback}}: Portions of the film are made out of footage from the original in form of flashbacks to pad out time.time and complete the film, since production was shut down before everything could be shot.
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* BackFromTheDead: Pluto inexplicably returns despite having his throat torn out by Beast in the first film, most likely because Michael Berryman is the one actor anyone remembered from the first film.

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* BackFromTheDead: Pluto inexplicably returns despite having his throat torn out by Beast in the first film, most likely because Michael Berryman Creator/MichaelBerryman is the one actor anyone remembered from the first film.
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* VillainDecay: Pluto is an even bigger manchild here than he was in the first. He's gone from cannibalism and murder to ... [[EvilIsPetty stealing dirtbikes to go on a joyride]] and shouting [[GoshDangItToHeck childish taunts]] at both Beast ([[AnimalNemesis a dog]]) and Roy.

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* VillainDecay: Pluto is an even bigger manchild here than he was in now lacking the first."psychopathic" part in PsychopathicManchild. He's gone from cannibalism and murder to ... [[EvilIsPetty stealing dirtbikes to go on a joyride]] and shouting [[GoshDangItToHeck childish taunts]] at both Beast ([[AnimalNemesis a dog]]) and Roy.
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she dies late in the movie


* SuddenSequelDeathSyndrome: [[spoiler:Happens to Ruby]], making the ending of the first something of a ShootTheShaggyDog.

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* RedRightHand: The Reaper has a weird lump on his forehead.



* RedRightHand: The Reaper has a weird lump on his forehead.

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* RedRightHand: The Reaper has a weird lump on his forehead.
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moved to YMMV subpage as it's a subjective, Just For Fun wick


* XMeetsY: It may as well be called ''The Hills Have Eyes on'' ''Franchise/FridayThe13th.'' Follows the same stalk-and-slash formula with horny teenagers or young adults caught in the middle, has the same composer (Harry Manfredini), and it doesn't help that Reaper looks a little like Jason in [[Film/FridayThe13thPart2 the second film]] AND wields a [[MacheteMayhem machete]].

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* XMeetsY: It may as well be called ''The Hills Have Eyes on'' ''Franchise/FridayThe13th.'' Follows the same stalk-and-slash formula with horny teenagers or young adults caught in the middle, has the same composer (Harry Manfredini), and it doesn't help that Reaper looks a little like Jason in [[Film/FridayThe13thPart2 the second film]] AND wields a [[MacheteMayhem machete]].

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* ActionGirl: Rachel/Ruby, briefly.



* PsychopathicManchild: Pluto is an even bigger one here than he was in the first. He's gone from cannibalism and murder to [[EvilIsPetty stealing dirtbikes to go on a joyride]] and shouting [[GoshDangItToHeck childish taunts]] at both Beast ([[AnimalNemesis a dog]]) and Roy.
* RedRightHand: The Reaper has a weird lump on his forehead.


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* VillainDecay: Pluto is an even bigger manchild here than he was in the first. He's gone from cannibalism and murder to ... [[EvilIsPetty stealing dirtbikes to go on a joyride]] and shouting [[GoshDangItToHeck childish taunts]] at both Beast ([[AnimalNemesis a dog]]) and Roy.
* RedRightHand: The Reaper has a weird lump on his forehead.
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* AnimalNemesis: Beast, to Pluto.


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* HandicappedBadass: Cass does quite well at beating up the Reaper for a blind girl.


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* PreAsskickingOneLiner: [[{{Narm}} "Reaper sucks!"]]
* PsychopathicManchild: Pluto is an even bigger one here than he was in the first. He's gone from cannibalism and murder to [[EvilIsPetty stealing dirtbikes to go on a joyride]] and shouting [[GoshDangItToHeck childish taunts]] at both Beast ([[AnimalNemesis a dog]]) and Roy.


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* TookALevelInBadass: Ruby/Rachel, who beats up Pluto with relative ease.

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* BackFromTheDead: Pluto returns despite having his throat torn out by Beast in the first film, most likely because Michael Berryman is the one actor anyone remembered from the first film.

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** BigBadDuumvirate: He and Pluto both kill people together.
* BackFromTheDead: Pluto inexplicably returns despite having his throat torn out by Beast in the first film, most likely because Michael Berryman is the one actor anyone remembered from the first film.



** [[spoiler:Reaper dies similarly, falling down a mine shaft.]]



* HeroicDog: Beast

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* HeroicDog: BeastBeast, once again.




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* XMeetsY: It may as well be called ''The Hills Have Eyes on'' ''Franchise/FridayThe13th.'' Follows the same stalk-and-slash formula with horny teenagers or young adults caught in the middle, has the same composer (Harry Manfredini), and it doesn't help that Reaper looks a little like Jason in [[Film/FridayThe13thPart2 the second film]] AND wields a [[MacheteMayhem machete]].
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* AnyoneCanDie:[[spoiler:Not even Ruby from previous film is spared.]]


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* DecoyProtagonist: The film starts with Bobby from the first film as he talks to his psychiatrist and seems to be the protagonist until he decides to not participate in the trip. Rachel (Ruby from the first film) then takes his place and is set up as the protagonist. [[spoiler:Until she is killed by a trap. Roy, Cass and arguably Beast are real protagonists]].


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* EvilDetectingDog: Beast


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* HeroicDog: Beast
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* PlotHole: The Reaper is a living example. He's the older son of Papa Jupiter... who ''didn't have'' an older brother. Freddy had two children, a daughter and Jupiter, and the daughter died when Jupiter burned their house down. There's no ''room'' for an older brother in this mix.

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* PlotHole: The Reaper is a living example. He's the older son brother of Papa Jupiter... who ''didn't have'' an older brother. Freddy had two children, a daughter and Jupiter, and the daughter died when Jupiter burned their house down. There's no ''room'' for an older brother in this mix.
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* BackFromTheDead: Pluto returns despite having his throat torn out by Beast in the first film, most likely because Michael Berryman is the one actor anyone remembered from the first film.
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* PlotHole: The Reaper is a living example. He's the older son of Papa Jupiter... who ''didn't have'' an older brother. Freddy had two children, a daughter and Jupiter, and the daughter died when Jupiter burned their house down. There's no ''room'' for an older brother in this mix.
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->''[...]beyond the towns and roads, the hills still have eyes.''
-->-- '''The OpeningScroll'''

The 1984 sequel to the original ''[[Film/TheHillsHaveEyes1977 The Hills Have Eyes]]'', also directed by Creator/WesCraven.

Bunch of people consisting of motocross drivers, their girlfirends and Ruby from the previous film (now a normal member of the society), are making their way across the Nevada desert to a race, but due to taking a rocky shortcut, their bus faces structural damage and runs out of gas. They take refuge in an abandoned mining complex, but find two cannibals there, who are ready to add them to their menu.

!!This sequel has examples of:

* AbandonedMine: The cast drives to a disused mine to look for supplies. Of course, the place turns out to be home of the remaining members of the previous film's CannibalClan.
* BigBad: The Reaper, who is the big brother of Papa Jupiter, who lead the family in the previous film.
* BucketBoobyTrap: Deciding the spend a night in one of the building around the abandoned mine, our cast puts a bucket over a door in case that anyone tries to sneak on them. It does end being triggered, but nobody gets to see it.
* CannibalLarder: After escaping from The Reaper's surprise attack, Cass hides in the cannibals' inner sanctum within the mines, and comes across the remains of her friends that are being prepared for meals to come.
* DestinationDefenestration: The Reaper catches Sue off guard by running to her, grabbing her and throwing her through a window.
* DisneyVillainDeath: Pluto meets his end when he is pushed down a cliff by his old nemesis Beast the dog.
* DroppedABridgeOnHim: [[spoiler:Happens to Ruby]]. [[spoiler:She dies when she... hits her head on a rock.]]
* {{Flashback}}: Portions of the film are made out of footage from the original in form of flashbacks to pad out time.
* GrievousBottleyHarm: Cass surprise attacks The Reaper from behind a corner by smashing a bottle of embalming fluid on his head.
* GroinAttack: After Sue finds Foster ogling at naked Jane in the shower and talking crap about her behind her back, she kicks him in the nuts and also slaps him.
* KnifeNut: Pluto always brandishes his knife when he attempts to attack someone, but it always fails to connect.
* MacheteMayhem: The Reaper wields a machete.
* ManOnFire: Just after The Reaper is engulfed by an explosion, Roy and Cass embrace each other, relieved that everything is over... only for The Reaper to run towards them from the inferno, covered in flames.
* NumberedSequels
* OpeningScroll: The film opens a scroll that quickly recounts what happened in the previous film.
* PeekABooCorpse: Jane gets a scare when Foster, with a hatchet buried on his head, falls out of a closet on her.
* RedRightHand: The Reaper has a weird lump on his forehead.
* SlashedThroat: After throwing her through a window, The Reaper finishes off helpless Sue by slicing her throat with his machete.
* SuddenSequelDeathSyndrome: [[spoiler:Happens to Ruby]], making the ending of the first something of a ShootTheShaggyDog.
* SuperWindowJump: The Reaper tries to attack Cass by jumping through a window, but misses and gets stuck when his right foot goes through the floor.
* TitleDrop: Done by Harry while he's driving the bus, who amuses others with a spooky tale about Jupiter's family from the previous film, capping the thing by telling that it took place where "the hills had eyes".
* TokenMinorityCouple: Foster and Sue, the African Americans among the mostly-white cast, are a couple with a rocky relationship.

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