[2][3][4] After a voice-over narrates on an opening card, Bobby Carter and his psychiatrist are discussing the events of the first film, which took place eight years ago.

Bobby is still traumatized by the events, but he and Rachel (formerly known as Ruby), who now owns a biker team, have also invented a super fuel that can power bikes.

The team, consisting of the blind Cass, her boyfriend Roy, Harry, Hulk, Foster, Jane and Sue, meets up by a bus and sets off.

The Reaper escapes from the wreckage covered in flames and attempts to kill them one last time, but he stumbles into an open mineshaft, falling to his death after which Roy and Cass embrace.

The film ends with Roy, Cass and Beast walking away from the mine at sunrise, into the vast desert as they follow the road home.

[9] Variety staff wrote in their review: "From then on, it's dull, formula terror pic cliches, with one attractive teenager after another picked off by the surviving cannibals.

The movie is so bad that it was shelved for two years, never released theatrically, then sold to video and pay TV to help recoup some of the costs.

[7]DVD Talk writes in its review: The story goes that Wes Craven quickly disowned The Hills Have Eyes Part 2, hammering out a quick-and-dirty sequel because he desperately needed the cash.

Remember, we're talking about the guy who cowrote the legendary killer-cellphone genre classic Pulse and directed the dreadful inner-city-inspirational-teacher flick Music of the Heart too; if he disowns a movie, as all over the place as his filmography is, it's gotta be painful.

The really bizarre thing is that this was made in the wake of A Nightmare on Elm Street, a movie that was shot for next-to-nothing but is overflowing with imagination and boasts a dazzlingly inventive visual eye.