Well you certainly have one here. A film that tries to gross you out with over the top kills and a chick who you don't even care about cause well she doesn't do anything special other than masturbate while listening to some reggae. Oh and don't forget about the twist at the end where we find out about 85% of the movie didn't actually happen. 2/10. What a crapfest
sharei disagree with your review. Masturbating while listening to reggae is quite special.
shareOh man, my immediate reaction after watching this film was to create a similar post. Well, someone did it before me and I'm no stranger to the genre - I love watching blood splatter all over the place, even the camera lens. But the twist in the end spoiled everything for me. It didn't add. It took away from the movie. Very few artists can achieve a surprise ending and get away with it, even make it succeed. In music, Frank Zappa was a master at that. In the movies, Stanley Kubrick did it with "Eyes Wide Shut", Bryan Singer with "The Usual Suspects" - I could list quite a few pleasant surprises. But "Haute Tension" (High Tension) can't make up its mind if it wants to be a good old all-American (or even 70's Italian) type of splatter/thriller or a metaphysical, possesed by inner demons, psychokiller type of movie. That is its main flaw. In "American Psycho" it worked perfectly, even if you left the theater with doubts and questions in your head. Did he or didn't he? At least, in "High Tension", I got one answer. Avoid french horror flicks (and stick to good old Nouvelle Vague surrealism)...
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