Product Description

MARIE & ALEXIA ARE CLASSMATES & BEST FRIENDS. TO PREPARE FORCOLLEGE EXAMS IN PEACE & QUIET, THEY DECIDE TO SPEND A WEEKENDAT ALEXIA'S PARENTS' SECLUDED FARMHOUSE. IN THE DEAD OF NIGHT,A STRANGER KNOCKS ON THE DOOR. WITH THE 1ST SWING OF HIS KNIFE, THE GIRLS' IDYLLIC WEEKEND TURNS INTO AN ENDLESS NIGHT OF HORROR

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #12526 in DVD
• Brand: LIONS GATE HOME ENT.
• Released on: 2005-10-11
• Rating: Unrated
• Aspect ratio: 2.35:1
• Formats: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
• Original language: English, French, Italian
• Subtitled in: English
• Dubbed in: English
• Number of discs: 1
• Dimensions: .25 pounds
• Running time: 91 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

Interesting addition to the Horror Genre
High tension is a new and interesting horror film recently released. Ive never seen anything like it before. They dont call it High Tension for nothing, thats for sure. The whole movie will have you on the edge of your seat and there is more than the fair share of shocks and suprises throughout the film. The overall atmosphere has a lonesome creepy feeling about it, full of cornfields, seclusion and quietness. Gorehounds will love this, there is tons of gore and the ending will suprise the hell out of you. There are very few horror films that can shock you in such a way where you literally jump out of your seat but this one has its moments.

Setting,France. The story surrounds Alex and Marie, 2 college students who retreat to Alex's parents isolated farm house looking to study for their college exams for the weekend. While everyone in the house settles in for the night, Marie is in bed when she starts to hear sounds and sees a truck pull up. Soon enough a homicidal maniac breaks in the home and from there its a non-stop rollercoaster ride of terror. And then the twist at the end..

This is a movie that shouldnt be missed by fans of the horror genre. It revels in its gore and has a smart edge to it.
High Tension is partially dubbed into english but for a lot of the movie you dont need subtitles. Noone says a word and the actions say it all.

Unrated version DVD Features-
16:9 Widescreen
5.1 and 2.0 Dolby Digital
U.S Unrated Version
DVD Introduction with Alexandre Aja and Gregory Levasseur
Haute Horror- Making of High Tension
Building Tension
Giannetto De Rossi: The Truth, The Madness and The Magic
Selected Scenes commentary with Alexandre Aja and Cecile de France
Original French language Director's Cut
U.S. English language dubbed version
Optional English subtitles, Optional Spanish Subtitles and Trailers

Overall Highly recomended, try to get the unrated version.

Look At The Cover. Don't You Just Want To See The Movie?
"High Tension" tells the story of two college women who take a trip home to shut themselves off from the outside world and do some heavy duty studying. The only people around them for miles are the family members they are staying with. Everything seems fine and joyous, until a late night visitor shows up and turns the household upside down, to say the least. What ensues is an hour and half, white-kuckled chase. Alex and Marie, the college students, are on the run and must stop at nothing to free themselves from this mysterious creep's grip. High tension, indeed.

When sitting down to watch "High Tension," one thing must be known: This is a french film, which means, yes, you're going to have to put up with dubbing and subtitles. Surprisingly enough, however, this does not degrade the film experience one bit whatsoever. "High Tension," as the unrated version, is one of the goriest films of recent memory, but at the same time, it's in a tasteful way. Some scenes that would be to graphic to even imagine are left offscreen, which is far more effective. At times, our imaginations are allowed to imagine worse things than they could show. Regardless, this movie never lets up for one minute. You will be hooked in from about the first fifteen minutes. I have to say, though, without giving it away, that the end blatantly negates the rest of the movie. I was left a little letdown and disappointed with how this film ended. But, you shouldn't let that damper the mood. Simply, this is an intense film. Regardless of how it ends, the journey to get to that ending is one hell of a ride. Until it's random ending, "High Tension" is, cut and dry, a terrifying experience.

GREAT movie for Valentine's day!
First off before I say anything about this movie...have you ever read the book 'Intensity' by Dean Koontz? Well...this movie, whether intending to or not, is the movie for that book. Until the ending. The ending..imo..was horrible for this movie. I didnt like it at all, and wish they hadn't done it that way.

BUT..for the most part, the movie was fkn awesome for a Horror movie. Because it's been a few months since I seen it, I dont remember the names of the characters. I'm also sitting here...thinking of a way to review this movie, without ruining anything. Because when I read the book Intenisty..it was just that..INTENSE. The movie starts off a TAD slow with two girls that are friends (one of them being our main girl) going home to the non-main girls family for vacation I believe. It seems to be a nice little home and nice parents. Then at night while everyone is in bed (and our main girl being naughty with herself), there is a knock on the door. Dad goes downstairs to see who it is. And then all...psychotic..hell..breaks loose. And it doesnt just stay in the house. It goes on the road also.

Basically..i really dont want to even give away anything that happens. This is definitely a Thrasher Psychotic Horror. And I was REALLY enjoying the story also that went along with it. That is..up until the ending which really made me cringe and roll my eyes. I wanted to punch the director in the throat for making such a good movie and then just fkn it all up at the end. Also if you like gore..this movie has some good scenes that made me laugh and say 'HOLY *bleep*, THAT'S *bleeped* UP!'.

Even though I hate the ending, that didnt ruin the WHOLE movie. If you are a slasher movie fan, I think you'll love this movie.