High Tension

Originaltitel: Haute tension

2003
R
1 Std. 31 Min.

IMDb-BEWERTUNG

6,7/10

79.713

IHRE BEWERTUNG

BELIEBTHEIT

3.655

352

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Psychological Horror Slasher Horror Horror

Beste Freunde Marie und Alexia beschließen, ein ruhiges Wochenende im abgelegenen Bauernhaus von Alexias Eltern zu verbringen. Aber in der Nacht ihrer Ankunft verwandelt sich der idyllische ... Alles lesenBeste Freunde Marie und Alexia beschließen, ein ruhiges Wochenende im abgelegenen Bauernhaus von Alexias Eltern zu verbringen. Aber in der Nacht ihrer Ankunft verwandelt sich der idyllische Ausflug der Mädchen in eine endlose Nacht des Schreckens.Beste Freunde Marie und Alexia beschließen, ein ruhiges Wochenende im abgelegenen Bauernhaus von Alexias Eltern zu verbringen. Aber in der Nacht ihrer Ankunft verwandelt sich der idyllische Ausflug der Mädchen in eine endlose Nacht des Schreckens.

Regie
- Alexandre Aja
Drehbuch
- Alexandre Aja
- Grégory Levasseur
Hauptbesetzung

Siehe Produktionsinformationen bei IMDbPro

IMDb-BEWERTUNG

6,7/10

79.713

IHRE BEWERTUNG

BELIEBTHEIT

3.655

352

Regie
- Alexandre Aja
Drehbuch
- Alexandre Aja
- Grégory Levasseur
Hauptbesetzung

Siehe Produktionsinformationen bei IMDbPro

Auszeichnungen
- 6 Gewinne & 9 Nominierungen insgesamt

Wissenswertes
The camera used during the car-attack scene got so much fake blood on it during shooting that when it was being used on another film later on fake blood oozed from it during the focusing of a shot.

Patzer
The killer takes the ax out of the gas station clerk, so he had to have flipped him over to do so. So it makes sense why the clerk is on his back in a later scene.

Zitate
[repeated line]
Marie: I won't let anyone come between us any more.

Alternative Versionen
Lions Gate was originally going to release the film uncut with an NC-17 rating theatrically but theaters were not too happy with the idea so Lion Gate cut about 2 minutes for the US theatrical release to secure a "R" rating. The changes were:
Alex's father is graphically decapitated with a bookcase, his headless neck spraying blood. In the R-rated version, the initial killing is implicit rather than explicit, and later, during a flashback, his killing is gone.
The scene of the killer applying a concrete saw to the stomach of the man driving the car was edited shorter
When Alex's mother has her throat slashed, the scene is edited short; most of the arterial spurting, as the killer pulls back her head, is gone. The shot of her severed hand also is removed, leaving no indication of what exactly happened to her.
The scene where Marie strikes the killer's face in with the barbed wire post is shortened and less explicit; Marie hits the killer fewer times, and there are fewer details of the killer's wounds shown.

Verbindungen
Featured in Siskel & Ebert & the Movies: Mr. And Mrs. Smith/Howl's Moving Castle/The Adventures of Sharkboy and Lava Girl in 3-D/High Tension/The Honeymooners (2005)

Soundtracks
A2
extrait from Célébration
(François-Eudes Chanfrault)
Recorded, Performed and Mixed by François-Eudes Chanfrault
(P) 2002 MK2 Music
Editions: 2002 Ciné Nada Music

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Highly violent, highly loud, highly derivative...and highly well made

"High Tension" is clearly intended as a cheery throwback to those halcyon days circa 1980 when you could see "Driller Killer," "Maniac," and "Nightmare" back-to-back in a center city grindhouse where the house lights never went up, only one seat in the place didn't reek of urine and sweat, and the poor teenage usher and concession stand worker huddled together in the lobby under a bare light bulb to avoid being knifed to death by some crazed street person. Of course, this film, while being just about the most violent film in recent memory, is French, somewhat arty, and extremely well made, certainly at odds with the subject matter of its homage. If a straight-ahead slasher film throwback with no self-reflective winking to the audience is your thing, then this will be your thing too. Otherwise, it just is what it is: well-made exploitation fare, right down to the silly, slap-your-head-and-say-"doh" final twist, just like back in the day.