October 24, 2005
HIGH TENSION
In a time when the motion picture industry skews marketing at any means necessary in order to attract a specific target audience, here comes a film whose very title is the ultimate truth in advertising. "High Tension" is exactly as its title proclaims, a near-breathless, uninterrupted study in unquenchable terror that knows just what the horror genre is all about, and puts those elements to use in a overbearing arrangement of suspense and dread.
Marie and Alex are classmates and best friends. Hoping to prepare for their college exams in peace and quiet, they decide to spend a weekend in the country at Alex's parents' secluded farmhouse. Nevertheless, in the dead of night, a stranger knocks on the front door. In addition, with the first swing of his knife, the girls' idyllic weekend turns into an endless night of horror.
The film takes place mainly within Alex's family home, an isolated farmhouse in the middle of a fully-grown cornfield. The......
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