Product Description

HIGH TENSION UNRATED/WS (DVD MOVIE)

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #11981 in DVD
• Brand: LIONSGATE 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: 5.00 pounds
• Running time: 91 minutes

Features

• Marie and Alexia aremates 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. Format: DVD MOVIE Gen

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
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