The Hills Have Eyes

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American film film horror film

The Hills Have Eyes is a 1977 American horror film about a family stranded in the desert who are terrorized by a clan of cannibalistic mutants.

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All labels observed (6)

Label	Occurrences
The Hills Have Eyes canonical	4
The Hills Have Eyes (1977 film)	2
The Hills Have Eyes (2006 film)	2
The Hills Have Eyes (2006)	1
The Hills Have Eyes 2 (2007)	1
The Hills Have Eyes Part II	1

How this entity was disambiguated

This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10917109 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.

NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07

Target entity: The Hills Have Eyes
Context triple: [Wes Craven, notableWork, The Hills Have Eyes]

A. The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning is a 2006 horror film that serves as a prequel to the 2003 remake, exploring the origins of Leatherface and his murderous family.
B. The Evil Dead
The Evil Dead is a 1981 low-budget cult horror film directed by Sam Raimi, renowned for its inventive camerawork, extreme gore, and darkly comic tone that helped redefine modern horror cinema.
C. House of 1000 Corpses
House of 1000 Corpses is a 2003 horror film directed by Rob Zombie that follows a group of young travelers who encounter a sadistic family of killers in rural America.
D. Screamers
Screamers is a 1995 science fiction horror film, based on a Philip K. Dick story, in which Peter Weller stars as a soldier on a war-torn planet threatened by self-replicating killer machines.
E. The Texas Chain Saw Massacre
The Texas Chain Saw Massacre is a landmark 1974 American horror film that helped define the slasher genre with its gritty realism, relentless terror, and iconic villain Leatherface.
F. None of above. chosen
G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.

NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07

Target entity: The Hills Have Eyes
Target entity description: The Hills Have Eyes is a 1977 American horror film about a family stranded in the desert who are terrorized by a clan of cannibalistic mutants.

A. The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning is a 2006 horror film that serves as a prequel to the 2003 remake, exploring the origins of Leatherface and his murderous family.
B. The Evil Dead
The Evil Dead is a 1981 low-budget cult horror film directed by Sam Raimi, renowned for its inventive camerawork, extreme gore, and darkly comic tone that helped redefine modern horror cinema.
C. House of 1000 Corpses
House of 1000 Corpses is a 2003 horror film directed by Rob Zombie that follows a group of young travelers who encounter a sadistic family of killers in rural America.
D. Screamers
Screamers is a 1995 science fiction horror film, based on a Philip K. Dick story, in which Peter Weller stars as a soldier on a war-torn planet threatened by self-replicating killer machines.
E. The Texas Chain Saw Massacre
The Texas Chain Saw Massacre is a landmark 1974 American horror film that helped define the slasher genre with its gritty realism, relentless terror, and iconic villain Leatherface.
F. None of above. chosen

Statements (49)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	American film ⓘ film ⓘ horror film ⓘ
antagonist	Jupiter NERFINISHED ⓘ Mars NERFINISHED ⓘ Pluto NERFINISHED ⓘ
antagonistGroup	cannibalistic mutant family ⓘ
certificate	R ⓘ
cinematographyBy	Eric Saarinen NERFINISHED ⓘ
countryOfOrigin	United States of America ⓘ surface form: United States
director	Wes Craven NERFINISHED ⓘ
distributedBy	Vanguard NERFINISHED ⓘ
editedBy	Wes Craven NERFINISHED ⓘ
era	1970s American horror cinema ⓘ
filmingLocation	California desert NERFINISHED ⓘ Victorville, California NERFINISHED ⓘ
followedBy	The Hills Have Eyes Part II NERFINISHED ⓘ
genre	exploitation film ⓘ horror ⓘ
hasRemake	The Hills Have Eyes (2006 film) NERFINISHED ⓘ
mainCharacter	Bob Carter NERFINISHED ⓘ Brenda Carter NERFINISHED ⓘ Doug Wood NERFINISHED ⓘ Ethel Carter NERFINISHED ⓘ Lynne Wood NERFINISHED ⓘ
musicBy	Don Peake NERFINISHED ⓘ
notableFor	depiction of a feral desert-dwelling cannibal family ⓘ graphic violence ⓘ
originalLanguage	English ⓘ
plotSummary	A suburban family becomes stranded in the desert and is attacked by a clan of cannibalistic mutants. ⓘ
producer	Peter Locke NERFINISHED ⓘ
productionCompany	Blood Relations Company NERFINISHED ⓘ
releaseDate	1977-07-22 ⓘ
releaseYear	1977 ⓘ
runtimeMinutes	89 ⓘ
setting	American Southwest NERFINISHED ⓘ Nevada desert ⓘ
stars	Cordy Clark NERFINISHED ⓘ Dee Wallace NERFINISHED ⓘ James Whitworth NERFINISHED ⓘ Janus Blythe NERFINISHED ⓘ Michael Berryman NERFINISHED ⓘ Robert Houston NERFINISHED ⓘ Russ Grieve NERFINISHED ⓘ Susan Lanier NERFINISHED ⓘ Virginia Vincent NERFINISHED ⓘ
subgenre	slasher film ⓘ
title	The Hills Have Eyes NERFINISHED ⓘ
writer	Wes Craven NERFINISHED ⓘ

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (11)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Wes Craven → notableWork → The Hills Have Eyes ⓘ

Wes Craven → directed → The Hills Have Eyes ⓘ

Wes Craven filmography → includesWork → The Hills Have Eyes ⓘ

this entity surface form: The Hills Have Eyes (1977 film)

Wes Craven filmography → includesWork → The Hills Have Eyes ⓘ

this entity surface form: The Hills Have Eyes Part II

Wes Craven filmography → notableFor → The Hills Have Eyes ⓘ

this entity surface form: The Hills Have Eyes (1977 film)

Marianne Maddalena → notableWork → The Hills Have Eyes ⓘ

this entity surface form: The Hills Have Eyes (2006)

Marianne Maddalena → notableWork → The Hills Have Eyes ⓘ

this entity surface form: The Hills Have Eyes 2 (2007)

Vinessa Shaw → notableWork → The Hills Have Eyes ⓘ

Vinessa Shaw → participatedIn → The Hills Have Eyes ⓘ

Frank Theodore Levine → notableWork → The Hills Have Eyes ⓘ

this entity surface form: The Hills Have Eyes (2006 film)

Robert Joy → notableWork → The Hills Have Eyes ⓘ