Origin
| “ | Your people asked our families to leave their town, and you destroyed our homes. We went into the mines, you set off your bombs, and turned everything to ashes. You made us what we've become. Boom! Boom! Boom! | ” |
|
—Big Brain, explaining a shortened version of the Mutants' origin to Doug Bukowski in The Hills Have Eyes |
||
The teaser trailers and prologue of the 2006 remake of The Hills Have Eyes film, as well as newspaper clippings seen in the film and dialogue from mutant character Big Brain, reveals that the Mutants are the way they are due to radiation. Sometime in the fifties during the Cold War, the American government, after forcing the populace of a New Mexico mining town off their land, performed nuclear testing in the area, unaware that the towns inhabitants had fled to the nearby mines, where they were exposed to radiation given off by the tested atomic bombs. Subsequent generations of these miners were born as the malformed Mutants.
The graphic novel, The Hills Have Eyes: The Beginning expands upon this origin greatly, revealing that only some of the miners gave birth to Mutants; those that did were driven from the old nuclear testing village the miners inhabited after the government stopped testing in the area, back to the mines to live a meager existence on supplies sold to them by a nearby gas station owner, Jeb. When Jeb became unable to supply the Mutants and their parents any longer, the Mutants' leader, Karen Sawney Bean, made a deal with him; Jeb would trick anyone who ventured to his gas station into going into the Mutants' territory, where they would be attacked and devoured, with any valuables they had being given to Jeb and his family to sell. Soon after Karen Sawney Bean died, her son, Hades, became the Mutants' leader. The Mutants, led by Hades, attacked the nearby nuclear testing village sometime after Karen's death, killing everyone in it and taking it as their own, after learning from Jeb's son, Jeb Jr., the reason they and their parents were banished from it years ago.
During the events of the first The Hills Have Eyes film, members of a vacationing family known as the Carters, who were tricked into traveling through the Mutants' domain by Jeb Jr., managed to successfully kill almost every member of a clan of Mutants; though two of the four surviving members of the Carter family were killed by the Mutants, two others managed to escape the Mutants and were found by police, managing to tell the authorities about them.
After the dying broadcast of a police officer, a part of a slaughtered group of officers investigating the Mutants' nuclear test village, was received, the army was sent in to exterminate the Mutants. Though the Mutants managed to kill a large number of attacking soldiers and destroy an army tank, their village home was inevitably destroyed and those Mutants that survived the military assault retreated to the mines, unnoticed by the army. In The Hills Have Eyes 2, the clan of Hades and his children wreak havoc on unsuspecting military soldiers and brutally kidnap and rape one female. Hades is ultimately killed along with the majority of his offspring.
Read more about this topic: List Of Mutants In The Hills Have Eyes
Famous quotes containing the word origin:
“In the woods in a winter afternoon one will see as readily the origin of the stained glass window, with which Gothic cathedrals are adorned, in the colors of the western sky seen through the bare and crossing branches of the forest.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“Each structure and institution here was so primitive that you could at once refer it to its source; but our buildings commonly suggest neither their origin nor their purpose.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“We have got rid of the fetish of the divine right of kings, and that slavery is of divine origin and authority. But the divine right of property has taken its place. The tendency plainly is towards ... “a government of the rich, by the rich, and for the rich.””
—Rutherford Birchard Hayes (1822–1893)