The Hills Have Eyes (2006)

A group of scientists, who are testing the radiation levels of the New Mexico desert, are killed by a deformed mutant, Pluto, with a pickaxe. Retired detective Bob Carter and his wife Ethel are traveling from Cleveland, Ohio to San Diego, California through the desert for their wedding anniversary. With them are their children: Lynn, Brenda, and Bobby; Lynn’s husband Doug Bukowski; Lynn and Doug’s baby daughter Catherine; and the family’s pet German Shepherds, Beauty and Beast. They stop at a gas station where an elderly attendant tells them of a different route through the hills. Not long after taking the supposed short-cut, their tires are punctured by a hidden spike strip. Doug and Bob go look for help, while the rest of the family stays behind. Beauty escapes from the trailer and, when Bobby chases her into the hills, he finds her mutilated corpse. Frightened, he runs and falls off the hill, knocking himself unconscious as a young female mutant Ruby protects him from her brother Goggle. Doug heads towards the interstate and finds a huge crater filled with numerous abandoned cars and other items.

Back at the gas station that night, Bob finds news clippings detailing various disappearances in the area after recent nuclear testings at a mining town by the US government that caused the mutants’ deformities. Horrified, he confronts the hysterical attendant who commits suicide inside an outhouse. Bob attempts to flee in an abandoned car but is subdued by the mutant leader Papa Jupiter. After Bobby is found by Brenda, they head back to the trailer until Doug returns, where the former encounters Jupiter and escapes from him. While Bobby confesses his story to the family, Jupiter’s sons Pluto and Lizard infiltrate the trailer and attack Brenda, who stays with the baby, while using the distraction of immolating Bob to a tree.