The Hills Have Eyes (Horror; 2006; Unrated Version; starring Kathleen Quinlan and Aaron Stanford; directed by Alexandre Aja).

A vacationing family, stranded in the New Mexico desert, is preyed upon by human mutants. The movie is gory and disturbing, but nonetheless it works. The extremely barren landscape adds a sense of surrealism and hopelessness to the film. I give this movie 8 out of a possible 10 points. For a horror flick, it’s pretty good. (Not to be confused with the low-budget 1977 version of The Hills Have Eyes).