The Hills Have American Eyes?

**Disclaimer: I most certainly am NOT anti-jewish or anti-Semitic or anything like that at all; we're all equally human, believe in whatever religion you want... but this seems a little absurd to me.**

While watching the film "The Hills Have Eyes", a gruesome tale about a family who gets stranded in the desert and are eventually picked off one-by-one and brutally murdered by a town of deformed miners hideously disfigured from the effects of government nuclear testing by the USA, some seemingly insignificant details within the film appeared to be masking a deeper message.

What I first picked up on was the curiously brief flash of a golden Star of David hanging around the neck of the character,  Doug Burkowski, sometime into the movie. It was only then that it clicked in my mind that this character was supposed to be a jewish man who married into this Christian American family. At one point he says that he thinks his wife's parents hate him - as if to imply to the audience that he feels like an outsider.

Throughout the first part of the film Doug is portrayed as weak and incompetent. However, nearing the end of the film, as the others are killed off, we slowly start to see his strengths emerge. We start to see that he might just be the 'hero' - and not the expected father-in-law retired from a career in law enforcement or the teenage son with an affinity for guns. This is where things start to appear to take on a deeper meaning.

Getting closer to the end of the movie, Doug ventures out to find the villains who've brutally murdered his wife & in-laws and stumbles upon the remains of the nuclear test-towns where the mutant killers are living. Poorly armed, he surreptitiously makes his way into the house; cautiously passing a table where a dead man is seated with an American flag stabbed into his head. This may seem like another insignificant detail but I'm already sensing there's more to it than that.

As Doug moves around the house, one of the especially beastly monstrosities attacks him. They battle throughout the ground floor of the house. The big ugly mutant appears to have totally beaten our 'hero' Doug (the jewish man; wearing the Star of David which, keep in mind, also just so happens to appear on the Israeli flag)...  he's on his knees and bleeding while big-ugly puts the gleaming chrome blade of the axe up to Doug's cheek. Dripping with blood and sweat, Doug pants, bleeds, and begs for his life. 

However the sense that Doug is merely feigning weakness is palpable because as big-ugly relaxes for a moment of triumphant laughter, Doug instantly slams a screwdriver right through the foot of the monster, pinning him in place. As the mutant howls in pain and tries to free itself, Doug runs over and grabs (of all things!) the American Flag. He runs back and powerfully plants it in the back of the monsters neck.  As the creature falls to its knees, slowly dying with the American flag protruding from its neck, our jewish friend Doug calmly picks up the axe and cooly finishes him off.

Am I crazy or is some SERIOUS subliminal symbolism suggested here?!

Not quite Synchronicity. But give me a break! Then again, perhaps I'm just stringing purely random, merely coincidental, details together. After all, it's not like Hollywood is owned by jews. (How Jewish is Hollywood?)