Yay! My 50th post!
*This film was released in America in 2004. It is also called Haute Tension. In French, with English subtitles.
High Tension is a bloody French film that is a piece of shock cinema. It grabs the audience by the throat and doesn't let them go for the whole movie. A very cliche story quickly changes into something bold and new. Even though the ending is flawed, the story still holds up.
Alexandre Aja's masterpiece starts out with two friends going on vacation to one of the parents' house. The house is of course secluded in the French countryside. It's not to long before the father is killed brutally and one of the girls is taken. The story just gets more bloody from there.
The film has some pretty shocking parts in it. The first appearance of the killer is just strange and gross. We see him getting fellated by a girl and then the camera pans away and its only a decapitated head. Also, some cuts of the film are rated NC-17 for a reason, but not for the normal sexual reasons.
Alexandre Aja seems to quickly be gaining popularity in America and this should just bring more. The Hills Have Eyes was a good remaking, so I'm looking forward to his other films. He is a good director, but he does have one flaw-P2, but its okay--he produced it.
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