Product Description

Marie and Alexia are classmates and best friends. Hoping to prepare for their college exams in peace and quiet they decide to spend a weekend in the country at Alexia's parents' secluded farmhouse. But in the dead of night a stranger knocks on the front door. And with the first swing of his knife the girls' idyllic weekend turns into an endless night of horror...System Requirements: Running Time 90 MinFormat: DVD MOVIE Genre: HORROR Rating: UNRATED UPC: 031398183532 Manufacturer No: 18353

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #22723 in DVD
• Brand: LION'S GATE ENTERTAINMENT
• Released on: 2005-10-11
• Rating: Unrated
• Aspect ratio: 2.35:1
• Formats: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD-Video, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
• Original language: English, French, Italian
• Subtitled in: English
• Dubbed in: English
• Number of discs: 1
• Dimensions: .25 pounds
• Running time: 95 minutes

Amazon.com
Home to some of the world's best food and fashion, the French also have the wonderful habit of producing some of the world's best movies. With High Tension, French director Alexandre Aja offers up a bloody buffet of terror; a violent concoction of style over substance, with a bloody French twist. Two college girlfriends, Maria and Alex, take a weekend to study at the secluded country home of Alex's parents. Shortly after their arrival, a mysterious killer appears, and things take a shockingly terrible turn for the worse. As the horror and body count rises, Maria and Alex find themselves fighting for their lives, and it's revealed that things are not exactly as they seem. Essentially a one-act cat-and-mouse affair, High Tension is an explosive bloody thrill ride that rarely lets up. Oozing style in every color-saturated frame and boasting some intense performances, Aja mainly succeeds in sustaining an intense momentum throughout the film. The plot occasionally suffers from a thin, flimsy storyline, and the abundant graphic scenes of violence will either thrill and delight, or simply disgust. Nonetheless, this adrenalin-fueled addition to the genre gives the American slasher flick a real run for its money. High Tension is high-art horror, and comes highly recommended. --Matt Wold

From The New Yorker
Up until its dreary twist ending, this French thriller (partially-and distractingly-dubbed in English) is an effective frightfest. Two young women (portrayed by the fabulously named Maïwenn Le Besco and Cécile de France) vacation in a rural area in the South of France, where a mad killer is on the loose. As the townspeople are picked off one by one, the director, Alexandre Aja, narrows the film to a claustrophobic and unironic game between the killer and his prey. In French and English.-Bruce Diones -Bruce Diones
Copyright © 2006 The New Yorker

Customer Reviews

Why? **CONTAINS SOME SPOILERS TOWARDS THE END**
What did we do to deserve this?? Is this retaliation for the whole Freedom Fries thing?? Seriously though. This film is awful. The ending surprise is given away in the first 10 minutes. The gore is over the top and poorly done. The film slips from English dubbed to French in the middle for about 20 minutes. Did you forget to voice over that part? Were you too busy trying to understand the movie yourself? Don't get me wrong, I understand the movie. It's a pretty shallow concept, that could've made for a good yarn if the idiots in charge of this thing would've put a little time and consideration into the continuity of the film. The whole premice of the movie is a giant plot hole.

**SPOILERS AHEAD** I can handle poor effects and low budget if there's continuity, but this is just dumb. I've tried to make sense of it, even going out on limbs but it just doesn't work! Split personalities don't drive two vehicles simultaniously! BAH! STUPID!

AWESOME FLICK!
This movie is like no other- I highly recommend it if you like moies that make you think!

WTH was this??
I'm not even going to bother giving a synposis of the movie *or* even give my thoughts about the first hour and a half of the movie (which is pretty much the entire movie!). This will be one of the shortest reviews I've given, heh, but I don't need to say much.

Because even if I do tell you what I thought of most of the movie, it's not going to help you any because once you watch the ending, the last 10 minutes or so, you'll think the same thing as me: "WTH was this?!. All that you watched will be pointless and you'll just ask yourself, "Why did I waste an hour and half watching this?". So I won't waste my time (or yours) writing about what I thought of the first hour and a half because the ending pretty much throws the *whole* movie story out the window in less than 10 minutes! What I will say is don't even bother watching this, it's a horrible movie!!

High Tension did not make sense at all, oh when you're watching it yah it does, but once the ending comes around, it doesn't do anything but leave you questions and disgusted by what you just saw. Just like I did. The movie was okay, up until the ending and then it was just a "WTH" feeling!!

Don't even bother with this movie, the "twist" in the ending was stupid and I didn't think it was a good one either! If you're still curious, by all means watch, but don't say I didn't warn you!! LOL.