The Hills Have Eyes - in which a nice family who seems to get along and like each other are stuck out in the desert thanks to the exploratory whims of their red faced father. Harbinger at gas station does really seem to warn them of the trouble. They get broken down and trapped, and picked off one by one by an icky family of inbred weirdos. Who are definitely cannibals. The dad walks back to the gas station, but doesn't make it back alive. The hill girl helps save the baby and runs over a bunch of rocks with it. The baby is saved, one dog is murdered, the other dog saves the day.
Death Wish (1974) - in which the justice system fails a man who lost his family, and he goes off the rails in finding personal justice. I mean vengeance. Charles Bronson plays Paul Kersey, a husband and father and architect, who has a nice NYC life. One day, near the beginning of the movie, Paul's wife is murdered and his daughter is raped into a catatonic state, from which she will not likely recover. Sexist. Anyways, Paul is destroyed, so his boss sends him out to New Mexico, or another lawless state, for a 3 month long project. Paul does some recovering while he is out there, and is befriended by his big money client, with a big hat and big guns. Upon arriving back in NYC, Paul is disheartened to find his daughter in terrible condition, and his son-in-law coping poorly. There have also been no arrests in his wife's murder, as the police are very busy with a crime spree related to gang violence. Paul is a really sympathetic guy, and his pain is visible, and very real. So,...
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