I absolutely love all forms of horror movies and never shy away from watching one with tons of gore. While I enjoyed High Tension for what it was and found it quite realistic in its depictions of gore and violence, I still can't get over the ending. So many people on here defend the ending by simply stating, oh she's crazy so everything you saw didn't actually happen because she's crazy and she imagined it all. Or, she's explaining her side of the story to the police so she's making up parts to act like she was a victim. To me, this movie would have worked great if it was exactly what we saw. Some sick, demented killer slaughtering a poor, innocent family and kidnapping the main characters best friend. Why the director felt the need to throw in this "twist" ending, which contradicts a lot of what we watched over the previous two hours, is beyond me. But throwing out a simple - "oh she's crazy, so what you saw you didn't see" isn't a valid explanation. I just think the director thought - "Hey, my movie is pretty good, but I want to set it apart from another violence/horror movie. I know, I'll add some weird twist at the end that nobody would expect, and then pretend like nothing actually happened". I dunno, it's just my opinion, but I was enjoying the movie just fine before she was revealed as being the killer. My two cents anyways.
Understandable. I take the "this is her side of the story" side, however. I believe the first draft of the script had the reveal when the cops were interrogating Marie at the end and they show her the security recording from the gas station and ask her if she wants to change her story, but the producer of the movie wanted the reveal to happen earlier and thus making it more shocking.
I had no knowledge of anything in this film when I watched it for the first time. I had only rented it because it was in 101 Horror Movies You Must See Before You Die. So, the ending did come as quite a shock to me.
The original Texas Chain Saw was better, so were most Friday the 13th and Nightmare on Elm Street films, so are many low budget ones, This sucked. It was way too drawn out. If you like over long scenes of people huffing and puffing, screaming, running nowhere, doing dumb things, and seeing it over and over, yeah, you would like this.