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High Tension
Directed by
Alexandre Aja
R
2005
1h 31m
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6.7
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Best friends Marie and Alexia decide to spend a quiet weekend at Alexia's parents' secluded farmhouse. But on the night of their arrival, the girls' idyllic getaway turns into an endless night of horror.
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Cast of High Tension
Cécile de France
Marie
Maïwenn
Alexia
Philippe Nahon
The Killer
Andrei Finti
Alex' Father
Oana Pellea
Alex' Mother
Marco Claudiu Pascu
Tom
Franck Khalfoun
Jimmy
Jean-Claude de Goros
Gendarmerie Captain
Bogdan Uritescu
Gendarme
Gabriel Spahiu
Man in the Car
Alexandre Aja
Director / Writer
Grégory Levasseur
Writer / Art Direction
Alexandre Arcady
Producer
Robert Benmussa
Producer
Tony Egry
Production Design
Renald Cotte Verdy
Production Design
Maxime Alexandre
Director Of Photography
Andrea Dardea Tesdall
Assistant Makeup Artist
Giannetto De Rossi
Special Effects Makeup Artist
Gabi Cretan
Makeup Artist
High Tension Ratings & Reviews
MovieFreak.com
Sara Michelle Fetters
Not only is it an assault on the senses, the film is so narcissistically nihilistic the only ones sure to get a kick out of it are members of the Manson Family fan club.
Movie Mom
Nell Minow
The ultimate rescue, however, comes when the credits roll and the lights come up.
Ebert & Roeper
Richard Roeper
An extremely well-made, very grisly and ultimately dishonest slasher film that's too clever for its own good.
Austin Chronicle
Marc Savlov
[A] stylistically thrilling but ultimately tedious French import.
Washington Post
Desson Thomson
Director Alexandre Aja, who wrote this with Gregory Levasseur, doesn't have a gift for horror suspense so much as a compleat geek knowledge of all the superior scare flicks that have preceded High Tension.
Washington Post
Stephen Hunter
You have to give it to the filmmakers for their contempt of convention: no foreplay, no teasing, no steady buildup of dread, just a knock on the door and the slaughterer is there.
Seattle Times
Jeff Shannon
A lame exercise, delivering shameless thrills at the expense of logic and genuine suspense.
San Francisco Chronicle
Mick LaSalle
Very bloody, sometimes difficult to watch and sometimes just tiresome.
New York Post
Kyle Smith
A chainsaw-cut above recent entries in the genre: a pure, unapologetic, unironic homage to the likes of Friday the 13th that respectfully salutes all the old shtick.
New York Daily News
Jack Mathews
One of the ugliest movies I've ever seen.
Houston Chronicle
Eric Harrison
I can't say much, except that we've seen it too many times in the past, and each time half the audience feels cheated.
Detroit Free Press
Terry Lawson
You will be terrified or disgusted or both, which is exactly the way it was back in the day.
Boston Globe
Wesley Morris
It doesn't make an iota of sense.
Fort Worth Star-Telegram/DFW.com
Scott Von Doviak
It's a no-frills set-up you've seen a hundred times, but rarely has it been executed as well.
Variety
Lisa Nesselson
Deftly juggles gore and suspense.
USA Today
Mike Clark
Purely as an exercise in style, this movie has its moments.
Filmcritic.com
Nick Schager
a disappointing lapse into old-fashioned narrow-mindedness... unable to sustain considerable suspense
New York Times
Manohla Dargis
Like the fairly recent Cabin Fever and like earlier slasher films of that grisly ilk, High Tension takes a fairly straightforward approach to its essential reason for being, namely the stagecraft of death.
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert
The philosopher Thomas Hobbes tells us life can be 'poor, nasty, brutish and short.' So is this movie.
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