High Tension (2005)

[pinkfloyd45769]

Zero, clean pm box!!!:p

[Posher778]

yeah great job spoiling it for me... =/ whatever.

schizo stuff is ok.. i liked identity, and that movie was sachizo... nicely done, cant wait to get high tension

[Sick_As_Fuck]

Is there a dubbed version? It's featured on my OnDemand right now, but it's French with American sub-titles.

[JokerMONEY3000]

Yea, I just watch High Tension for the first time..I don't know if it was like what was seen in theaters according to some of these posts. I watch the UNRATED special edition and it had the reveal earlier. Also to respond to the person above, the entire film was dubbed in english, except for certain parts which i thought was rediculous. Like every once and a whille some parts were just put in french with subtitles, then back to dubbing. The entire gas station scene was in subtitles. Then some parts which could have been easily dubbed, such as when shes talking in the corn feild, u cant even seee her lips, but yet they decided to subtitle that part.

And as far as the ending, it was horrible. I thought this movie was amazing up until the whole schizo thing, it WAS completley just thrown on. And it didn't even make sense. Such as the abusing the decapitated head in the begining, what-the-fuck? This film was fucking amazing till that bullshit ending, and it completly ruined the entire movie.

[no mulier]

Originally posted by Zero
...i don't think this makes me 'closed-minded' but a demanding viewer.

After watching the film, I realized one thing that was missing in the way I watch films. Immersing oneself completely when the film begins up until the end has always been sort of -the- goal.

But Zero puts into words what I needed: to be a demanding viewer. To not merely absorb the film in its entirety, but to chew it as well.

It has always been something of a feat to get my husband to watch films that people rave about in forums: Session 9, The Descent, and now High Tension. But at the end of it, he says he doesn't regret having seen this one. Which is not to say he liked it.

Unlike me, you see, he doesn't just take the film in. He always questions and analyzes. A demanding viewer! He doesn't remember details. He remembers the film as a whole concept.

Originally posted by Zero
...a film like high tension, which i liked in ways, left me feeling, for want of a better term, 'cheated.' but i don't really know why?

Overall, I felt the same. Deceived. Here lies -- what I feel is -- the difference of this particular film from other schizophrenia themed films like The Machinist and Fight Club. The narrative is coherent. There is a prevalent sense within its elements. High Tension suffers from deficiencies in both.

Originally posted by The STE
...felt completely tacked on, like the writer just pulled something out of his ass at the last second and made it seem like it was deep or something. It wasn't at all effective, and just because it was unpredictable doesn't mean it was good.

Following the abovementioned theme, High Tension fails because it provides no subtle clues, apart from Maria dreaming about running after herself, of her condition. And as abundant in gore as it was -- which impressed me in some instances -- the execution and style left it much too blatant and crude.

"Pornographic," my husband said.

[horrifying]

i thought this was funny its from dean koontz newsletter, in which haute tension is addressed.
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THE RIP-OFF MOVIE

Many readers have been writing to inform Dean that a recent movie, which we aren't going to promote by naming it, ripped off the first half of INTENSITY. Initially, the director of this bloody and inept film denied having read the book, but later acknowledged that part of it might have been "inspired" by INTENSITY. In the past, Dean has been aggressive about plagiarism and has succeeded in every action he has taken against every plagiarst. In this case, a win appeared inevitable, but he decided to ignore the offense because he found the film so puerile, so disgusting, and so intellectually bankrupt that he didn't want the association with it that would inevitably come if he pursued an action against the filmmaker. Maybe the lesson is that if you're going to steal from dean's work, you better make your version as disgusting and misanthropic, as full of loathing for humanity, as you can, then you might get away with it.

[Juicy Jon]

I'm VERY glad others think this movie is overrated and overhyped. I was really in to it until the ending. It was definately not a bad idea for a twist, they just could have done alot better making everything leading up to the twist fit in with the actual twist.


I've seen people try to analyze it and make everything fit together but.... it just doesnt.

[urgeok]

it was overhyped and overrated because it was different.
some people appreciate different..

especially reviewers who have to sit through tons and tons of shit ..sifting for the odd peanut.

it was a good fresh exploitation film... not the best - not the worst .. just something that felt fresh and was well acted.

i can appreciate that ..

[Posher778]

parents want to watch it, and are wondering. how bad is the language and sex. does anyone remember, i don't feel like watching it again right now to find out.

[Despare]

One scene with nudity in it I think and one scene where a guy is molesting a severed head but you can't see it because it's in a truck. The language is coarse but not that bad and half if it is subtitled. Oh, there's a masturbation scene too but she's fully clothed.