Gorehounds and scare seekers rejoice. True horror may very well be making a comback in the blood-soaked guise of French cinema. Who knew?
I am surprised not much has been said about this movie opening June 10th from Lions Gate Films. The comercials look positively horrible, I admit. However, there is apparently good reason the adverts show so little other than a lesbian-ish looking girl fighting back. Apparently the movie doesn't have many scenes that can be shown that don't involve mutilations, geysers of blood, beheadings, and sheer terror.
The film was cut by 1 minute from it's original French release to avoid the dreaded NC-17. The film is dubbed in English from the native French language to produce more commercial appeal and prevent it from being delegated to art house thaters only. With the mass release of this film we are sure to be in for a treat.
The website is up and running and you can view some gory scenes from the film.
The reviews on Rotten Tomatoes are positive, scoring a 70% favorability from reviewers who saw the film at sundance. 70% and the film hasn't been released yet, that's quite a positive for a slasher film.
My only gripe is that the writers seemed to borrow heavily from Dean Koontz's "INTENSITY" as a plot device, so much so that I am surprised he didn't get a creen credit for a "based on the novel by..."
High Tension Website
I am surprised not much has been said about this movie opening June 10th from Lions Gate Films. The comercials look positively horrible, I admit. However, there is apparently good reason the adverts show so little other than a lesbian-ish looking girl fighting back. Apparently the movie doesn't have many scenes that can be shown that don't involve mutilations, geysers of blood, beheadings, and sheer terror.
The film was cut by 1 minute from it's original French release to avoid the dreaded NC-17. The film is dubbed in English from the native French language to produce more commercial appeal and prevent it from being delegated to art house thaters only. With the mass release of this film we are sure to be in for a treat.
The website is up and running and you can view some gory scenes from the film.
The reviews on Rotten Tomatoes are positive, scoring a 70% favorability from reviewers who saw the film at sundance. 70% and the film hasn't been released yet, that's quite a positive for a slasher film.
My only gripe is that the writers seemed to borrow heavily from Dean Koontz's "INTENSITY" as a plot device, so much so that I am surprised he didn't get a creen credit for a "based on the novel by..."
High Tension Website
This post was last modified: 06-02-2005, 01:23 PM by Tony H.
I saw trailer in apple.com. Looks pretty good. I can't wait,too! 
Hmm, apparently this movie has already seen the light of day in the UK back in 2004. It was released as Switchblade Romance. Apparently we in the states are getting a watered down version.
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The trailer does look pretty good, but your review gives me reservations. I'm not a big fan of blood and gore. We'll have to wait and see.
The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. ... The piecing together of dissociated knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas of reality, and of our frightful position therein, that we shall either go mad from the revelation or flee from the light into the peace and safety of a new dark age.
~ Howard Phillips Lovecraft