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My opinion is that High Tension is great as long as you don't think about it too much. The ending completely falls apart and has so much illogic that it renders the entire movie as suspect as to what actually happened.
High Tension is one of my favorite movies ever. TLDR; I’ve watched it 3 times and it’s soooo good. The kills are raw, extreme, and all of them are impactful. The story is fine with me, even if it gets some hate. A second rewatch will make you understand certain plot points more.
As mentioned by others, the movie is largely a rip-off of Dean Koontz's book Intensity to the point of legally actionable plagiarism (Aja denied it for years before admitting he had read the book) and the only part that isn't is the hilariously bad twist ending. The movie has a couple of great gore shots and does, in fact, build good tension ...
Jun 9, 2005 · Alexandre Aja's "High Tension" is a slasher film about a madman prowling a rural area of France, chopping, slicing and crunching his way through, let's see, a body count of five or six people, including a small child that the film does not neglect to show crumpled and dead in a cornfield.
Mar 24, 2020 · The 2003 French horror hit High Tension is remembered by many for its surprising twist ending, but that twist doesn't stand up to scrutiny. From time to time, a certain type of foreign horror catches on for a period with American horror fans.
Jun 10, 2005 · HIGH TENSION (R, 85 minutes) -- Contains very twisted violence, obscenity and sexual content. In sort of French with subtitles and off-kilter dubbing. Area theaters.
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Jan 4, 2006 · HIGH TENSION is a well made throwback kind of slasher movie, but not as good as WOLF CREEK. Similar subject matter though. Two young ladies, Marie and Alexia, go to visit Alexia’s parents out in the french boonies.
