HAUTE TENSION (aka HIGH TENSION; SWITCHBLADE
ROMANCE) (18)
D: Alexandre Aja
Lions Gate/Europacorp (Alexandre Arcady & Robert
Benmussa)
France 2003
91 mins
Horror
W: Alexandre Aja & Grégory Levasseur
DP: Maxime Alexandre
Ed: Baxter
Mus: François-Eudes Chanfrault
Cécile de France (Marie), Maïwenn (Alex), Philippe Nahon
(The Killer)
Violent, bloody, unpleasant but effectively creepy French
slasher movie with a maniac in a yellow jumpsuit murdering his way through the countryside in pursuit of a pair of teenage girls.
It's not particularly original until a plot twist develops
which doesn't actually make too much sense, but is still a more entertaining horror movie than the majority of dross spewed out by Hollywood over the same decade.
5/10