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A beautiful young Frenchwoman, Alex (Maïwenn Le Besco), travels out to the country to visit her family and brings along her friend Marie (Cécile de France). But on the night of their arrival, the girls' idyllic getaway turns into an endless night of horror.
24 December 1938, Paris, France
17 July 1975, Namur, Wallonia, Belgium
14 August 1952, Bucharest, Romania
21 March 1968, Bucharest, Romania
17 April 1976, Les Lilas, Seine-Saint-Denis, France
29 January 1962, Bucharest, Romania
November 04, 2015
Its conclusion can be viewed as a major disappointment.
June 10, 2005
You have to give it to the filmmakers for their contempt of convention: no foreplay, no teasing, no steady buildup of dread, just a knock on the door and the slaughterer is there.
June 10, 2005
A lame exercise, delivering shameless thrills at the expense of logic and genuine suspense.
June 13, 2005
An extremely well-made, very grisly and ultimately dishonest slasher film that's too clever for its own good.
June 10, 2005
Very bloody, sometimes difficult to watch and sometimes just tiresome.
June 18, 2008
The last three fourths of this film are basically like the last five minutes of Halloween -- total fear and total suspense.
September 17, 2007
Haute Tension is like a French art-house essay on slasher-movie cliches, and as such is good nasty fun.
April 29, 2009
Disturbing, demented, gory and one of the best horror films I've seen in a while...
July 02, 2009
Gory European gothic horror doesn't come any grittier and weirder than it does when a couple of would-be lesbian college girlfriends retreat to a weekend at the secluded farmhouse of one of their parents to study for their final exams.
July 27, 2007
A cinematically sound but sub-par horror flick readied for the American mass market by the addition of English credits and some truly atrocious dubbing.
June 10, 2005
Director Alexandre Aja, who wrote this with Gregory Levasseur, doesn't have a gift for horror suspense so much as a compleat geek knowledge of all the superior scare flicks that have preceded High Tension.
June 10, 2005
This is sick. And sickening.
