Have Eyes "was seen as a turning point in the horror genre" and inspired humorous, visceral horror films that were accomplished on a technical level, including Halloween (1978), Friday the 13th (1980), and Prom Night (1980). In popular culture While watching The Hills Have Eyes, director Sam Raimi noticed a ripped poster for Steven Spielberg's Jaws (1975) in a scene of the film. He "took it to mean that Wes Craven...was saying 'Jaws was just pop horror. What I have here is real horror.'" This inspired Raimi to include a ripped The Hills Have Eyes poster in his film The Evil Dead (1981), as a humorous way of telling Craven "No, this is the real horror, pal." Craven reacted to this by having Nancy Thompson fall asleep while watching The Evil Dead in his film A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984). Raimi responded to that by including Freddy Krueger's glove in a scene of Evil Dead II (1987). Later, Craven would have characters in his film Scream (1996) choose to watch a VHS of Halloween (1978) instead of the VHS of The Evil Dead (1981) that they had. Then, in a first-season episode of Raimi's television show Ash vs Evil Dead, Krueger's glove can be glimpsed, while a poster for The Hills Have Eyes can be seen outside a movie theater in an episode of the show's second season. The videogame Red Dead Redemption, set in the old west, includes a side mission called "American Appetites", where the main character investigates a series of disappearances of travelers near the fictional town of Armadillo. At the end, the player finds out that the disappearances are the work of a cannibal serial killer that lives in the hills. "Home," a 1996 episode of The X-Files, is an homage to both The Hills Have Eyes and The Texas Chain Saw Massacre. The title and lyrics of The Weeknd's song "The Hills" (2015) reference Craven's film. References Bibliography External links Soundtrack details on Discogs Through the Eyes of America: Wes Craven’s "The Hills Have Eyes" 1977 films 1977 horror films 1970s exploitation films 1977 independent films 1970s serial killer films American exploitation films American political films American horror films American independent films American rape and revenge films American serial killer films Films about cannibalism 1970s English-language films Films about families Films about vacationing Films based on European myths and legends Films directed by Wes