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High Tension - fpw - 01-15-2006
Pretty sick and relentlessly grim. Don't see this unless you're a true-blue gorehound. Even then, think twice, because it foists a cliched twist on you toward the end that's supposed to give it some sort of lame existential cachet. It doesn't. Your reaction won't be, "Cool!" It'll be, "WTF?" Except for the relentless gore, the first three-quarters is a shameless rip-off of Dean Koontz's novel Intensity. Dean could have brought suit, but after seeing it he decided he didn't want his name associated with it in any way.
FF= 7
High Tension - Marc - 01-15-2006
I remember Tony lambasting this one when it came out. His comments were pretty much the same.
High Tension - t4terrific - 01-15-2006
fpw Wrote:Pretty sick and relentlessly grim. Don't see this unless you're a true-blue gorehound. Even then, think twice, because it foists a cliched twist on you toward the end that's supposed to give it some sort of lame existential cachet. It doesn't. Your reaction won't be, "Cool!" It'll be, "WTF?" Except for the relentless gore, the first three-quarters is a shameless rip-off of Dean Koontz's novel Intensity. Dean could have brought suit, but after seeing it he decided he didn't want his name associated with it in any way.
FF= 7
I saw it at the theater. You are right. The first hour is more faithful to Intensity that the movie Intensity was! I couldn't believe it! I was happy actually (since Intensity, the movie, wasn't so great). Then it was all turned upside down. I thought (as you said) "What The Fudge?!!!!!"
It was truely a wierd way to add a twist. I liked the film enough to not be disapointed. I didn't like it enough to watch it again.
High Tension - fpw - 01-15-2006
Marc B. Wrote:I remember Tony lambasting this one when it came out. His comments were pretty much the same.
I'd forgotten Tony's review -- 7 months is like 7 years on this board. I saw the unrated version, so the gore factor here was a few notches higher than the US theatrical version.
Yes, it cheats. Big time.
High Tension - crimsonking - 01-15-2006
Yeah. That was one lame twist. I watched that with my two brothers and we were in awe that it was such a rip off of Intenstity. Almost a scene by scene rip off. Amazing
High Tension - saynomore - 01-15-2006
I picked up this dvd at a secondhand store about a month ago. I skipped it at the theater because I could see the ending coming a mile away...and sure enough, I watched the dvd and that was the ending I imagined.
Except... there is no way this ending is possible, based on all that's come before it. I even re-wound (winded?) to certain scenes and matched a WTF with a WTS.
One final note on such twist endings. I mentioned the ending to Cindy (who teaches Creative Writing to kids) and she told me that this type of ending is common with the kids, who think they're being really tricky and smart.
AC
P.S. I wrote a similar story when I was a kid (called Cabin Fever, about a hermit in a cabin in the high mountains who is hunting and storing for the coming winter: twist ending--he turns out to be an escaped patient in a mental hospital who has been killing nurses and other patients and storing their corpses in his room where he has a calender with a picture of a cabin in the high mountains in it--gasp!).
High Tension - Scott Hajek - 01-15-2006
' Wrote:the first three-quarters is a shameless rip-off of Dean Koontz's novel Intensity.
This is the bigger reason I won't spend my time watching it. I still don't have faith in Koontz's stuff, and a rip-off off his stuff creates no interest for me.
High Tension - t4terrific - 01-15-2006
saynomore Wrote:P.S. I wrote a similar story when I was a kid (called Cabin Fever, about a hermit in a cabin in the high mountains who is hunting and storing for the coming winter: twist ending--he turns out to be an escaped patient in a mental hospital who has been killing nurses and other patients and storing their corpses in his room where he has a calender with a picture of a cabin in the high mountains in it--gasp!).
That is interesting.
High Tension - hford713 - 01-17-2006
fpw Wrote:I'd forgotten Tony's review -- 7 months is like 7 years on this board. I saw the unrated version, so the gore factor here was a few notches higher than the US theatrical version.Speaking of a filmmaker/screenwriter cheating... I felt the same way with November (w/ Courtney Cox).
Yes, it cheats. Big time.
It must be both easy and fun for a filmmaker or writer to conjure up something that doesn't make sense.