What do you get when you combine the master of horror with his apprentice son staying in a hotel for one month? The sequel to 2006′s “The Hills Have Eyes.”

“The Hills Have Eyes 2,” which debuted Friday, isn’t only a sequel but a remake to Wes Craven’s 1985 version. In HHE2, the story is different than Craven’s original.

“We wanted to just start over with a new script for this movie,” said Craven in a conference call. “Last year’s was about a family and added their elements; this year’s is more about a family of a small military unit.”

HHE2 follows a group of young National Guard soldiers training in the same radioactive desert where the horror of the first movie took place.

“This second movie definitely takes it up a notch of intensity and horror,” said Jonathan Craven, Wes’ son, in a conference call.

Jonathan co-wrote this movie with Wes on what Jonathan referred to as the smoothest writing experience he’s had. The two checked into a hotel room for a month and wrote the script.

The movie was filmed in the Moroccan hills where jagged rocks, scorpions and cobras made it interesting. An hour before shooting, a guy would arrive to capture the bugs surrounding the area.

The duo’s goal in the two Hills movies was to bring them “back to basic sincerity to horror film making, brutal and direct.”

Wes’ other movies include “A Nightmare on Elm Street,” the “Scream” trilogy and “Vampire in Brooklyn,” to name a few. His directorial and writing debut was with the horror movie “The Last House on the Left” in 1971.

When asked if a new “Freddy” film is in the works, Wes said he doesn’t own it anymore, and it probably won’t happen. However, a third HHE is a good possibility.

While this is Jonathan’s second writing role, he won’t be stopping anytime soon.

“Evil is hereditary,” Jonathan said. “It goes back a long time in our family to Jack the Ripper and Yohan the Slasher.”