Haute Tension

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