10 Horror Movie Mistakes You Can Never Un-see

Released in 2006, Alexandre Aja’s gruesome The Hills Have Eyes remake saw the controversial director - this is the same man who directed Switchblade Romance - bring his visceral vision to Wes Craven’s more demure original.

This gory film starts as it means to go on, with a tense sequence wherein the mutated monster Pluto offs a quartet of scientific researchers who are collecting samples of his irradiated hellscape home. After finding his colleague slaughtered, one of the poor scientists has about a second to react before he himself gets a pick axe planted clean through his head by the burly psycho.

It’s one of the first memorably nasty moments in a film chock full of them. In close-up, a blade goes in the back of his skull and its bloody point pops out through the shattered eyepiece of his gas mask.

Then he lands on the dusty earth a second later, with said eyepiece entirely intact and no sign of any blood, let alone skull-smashing head injury.

So… Maybe he’s okay after all?l?