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By Returntosender9 (1) on 27 Aug 2013

The film had a decent budget and the effects were pretty good. It lost me about half way through, but picked up again for a nice ending…

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By L34D (6) on 13 Jan 2013

Not a good movie. This film is sooo boring. The twist at the end was the most disturbing thing. I mean what the hell…

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By Michael Sragow (1,413) for Baltimore Sun (1,823) on 13 Oct 2012

The movie is a model of multinational incompetence…

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By Mick Lasalle (3,303) for San Francisco Chronicle (7,630) on 23 Aug 2012

For all this, there is one unalloyed good thing to be said for High Tension. When all is said and done, it really does live up to its title…

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By Zachattack (6) on 30 Jun 2012

I was one of those people who loved the twist in the plot - I didn't see it coming. Give this movie a shot. Its not 'too' scary, just tense and gory…

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By Wrangham (4) on 22 Dec 2011

This film is an excellent shocker, which is more than I can say for most contemporary horror films…

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By Lisa Nesselson (145) for Variety (12,700) on 15 Dec 2011

Deftly juggles gore and suspense, and punchline holds an intellectual frisson or two for fans of gender-role speculation, but basically this…

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By Realndn (2) on 12 Nov 2011

I read about this movie online and decided to watch it after already knowing the ending...big mistake…

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By Rene Rodriguez (1,781) for Miami Herald (3,319) on 12 Jun 2011

Even if you don't buy the ending, however, High Tension makes for ghoulish, sick fun, and Aja, who is already at work on a remake of Wes Craven's…

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By Andrew O'hehir (1,324) for Salon (312) on 06 May 2011

Horror fans should see this, at least in geeky admiration for what it pulls off, but in the long run it's no more than a crisp footnote to…

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By Robusualsuspect (3) on 12 Mar 2011

Un film angoissant et bien dans l'esprit du cinÃ©ma d'horreur francais, avec une cecile de france convanquante dans son role pourtant compliquÃ©…

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By Stephen Hunter (927) for Washington Post (9,851) on 29 Jan 2011

It can only be said that if you like this sort of thing, then this is the sort of thing you like…

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By Toki_Wartooth (1) on 26 Dec 2010

Carries on the tradition of slasher films. Tons of violence and gore, but not ridiculous like the Saw series…

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By M. E. Russell (386) for Portland Oregonian (2,019) on 17 Apr 2010

I was annoyed by Levasseur and Aja's desertion of their tense, simple plot in favor of tedious plot twists that could, frankly, use a rest…

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By Mark Holcomb (179) for Village Voice (8,525) on 17 Jan 2010

Manages--before faltering under the weight of its own pretensions--to be pretty scary…

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By Jonathan Rosenbaum (1,657) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 09 Dec 2008

If old-fashioned jolts are what you're after, this nasty piece of merchandise delivers. But so does electroshock…

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By Ravenx301 (5) on 12 Apr 2007

I just got done watching this flim on the Movie network. Not very good…

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By Riren (58) on 04 Mar 2007

High Tension has a twist ending that's simply been done too much now, and this is the worst execution of that particular twist ending to date…

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By James Berardinelli (4,524) for ReelViews (4,523) on 28 Nov 2006

The film revels in blood and gore, but this is not just a run-of-the-mill splatter film…

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By Wesley Morris (1,967) for Boston Globe (6,852) on 06 Aug 2006

The horrible anticipation he [Aja] builds is derailed by a gimmick that makes the twist in, say, ''Fight Club seem perfectly logical…

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