A 2007 Graphic Novel which serves as both a Prequel for the remake of the horror film The Hills Have Eyes and an Interquel between it and its sequel.
The story describes the origins of the mutants, as well as events taking place between the remake and its sequel.
The Hills Have Eyes: The Beginning provides examples of:
- Attempted Rape: A soldier attempts to rape Karen after murdering her son in front of her, but is stopped by one of his superiors. This contributes to her Start of Darkness.
- Baldness Means Sickness: Karen is shown bald shortly before her death, due to the effects of radiation poisoning.
- Death of a Child: The brutal murder of Karen's first son.
- Enfant Terrible: Patrick believes Karen's son Hades is this, and goads the other villagers into driving them out of town.
- Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas: Papa Hades really loved his mother, and deeply mourns her death.
- Eye Scream: Karen kills Patrick by stabbing him in the eye before decapitating him and cutting off his hands.
- Mystical Pregnancy: Somehow, Karen becomes pregnant, despite not having had sex ever since her husband's death two years previously. Everyone, even Karen herself, is mystified by it, though some are suspicious that she isn't telling the truth.
- Nuclear Mutant: The fallout from the atomic bombs eventually caused many of the original villagers to succumb to radiation poisoning, but not before they gave birth to numerous horribly deformed mutant children.
- Start of Darkness: The US Army's senseless slaughter of the people of Yuma Flats was this for the survivors. For Karen in particular, it was the murders of her husband and young son.
- Suddenly Speaking: Papa Hades, who only had a handful of semi-intelligible lines in The Hills Have Eyes 2, is the narrator of the novel, and is shown to be capable of speaking perfectly clear and intelligent English, as are several other mutants.
- Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome: Doug, alive at the end of the first film, is murdered by Hades clan when the group decide to split up. Baby Catherine is left in the desert and last seen being surrounded by wolves.
- The Unreveal: It's never revealed who Hades' biological father is, or how Karen conceived him in the first place.
