Haute Tension/High Tension

heya guys,just had to post i loved this movie see my earlier post! 🙂
chilled monkey u have have views on homosexuality,thats great im happy for u,but to dislike a movie because the psycho is a lesbian and from what i read in ur posts u disagree with this?,ud have to be slightly retarded to think that the movie is suggesting ALL lesbians are psychosor all hetrosexuals are psychos,lol the point is stupid,this is a movie it tells a story a fictional story,its not gay bashing at all,and for some1 to dislike a movie because the viewer has views on gay rights and in doing so dislikes the movie because the psycho just happens to be a lesbian is rediculous from my point of view,i didnt watch this movie and think to myself the killer is homosexual OH MY GOD i must stay away from homosexuals,lol,i watched the movie and thought this was awesome entertainment and that is what it is purely entertainment. lots of psychos are portrayed as hetrosexual do u have a problem with that? allso or just the fact that in this particular movie the psycho happened to be gay?,sorry if u disagree chilled monkey but disliking a movie beacuse the killer is homosexual is political correctness gone insane!

Originally posted by chilled monkey
Oh and

"This is an indepdent French film, which in NO WAY had an agenda to smear lesbianism, or portray them as psychos."

Oh really. It features a lesbian who turns out to psychotic, and it implies a connection between that and her sexuality. What do you call that.

That is why his film is trash.

Not really, it was about an unhealthy obsession that turned deadly, her being lesbianonic is a moot point. Just because she was a lesbian doesn't mean it's agenda is to put down lesbians as a whole, it was a plot movement, it was about ONE lesbian, nothing more.

Regaurdless, you're reading to much into it. It was the best slasher film of the last decade.

backfire m8 all i can say is AGREED 🙂

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Sexual repression can mess someones head up, especially if of violent mind set; heterosexual or homosexual, the character happened to be a lesbian instead of straight. You wouldn't complain if it was a straight person with sexual repression doing all the things that happened in the film.

Oh and to think Alexandre Aja is directing the Hills Have Eyes remake! hopefully the gore will be very nice indeed.

i watched it without subtitles(my choice)..its not really a film rich on dialogue so it didnt bother me..it made it more interesting..it didnt need much dialogue

i then later watched it with subtitles..never made the film any better

Originally posted by chilled monkey
I care. And it matters very much.

Cinemaddiction: I can't believe what I'm hearing here. This movie sticks firmly to the cliche I mentioned in my last post, instead of doing something good, and you're telling me that it's in touch with how sexuality should be portrayed?

I never said that it's in touch with how sexuality should be portrayed. I said that if anyone were to know how it's to be played out, it would be the French. I've seen films pertaining to morbid obsession before, and this has been the most passionate and credible, looming on psychotic.

WHAT CLICHE! You keep moaning and groaning about some "homosexuals as psychos" cliche in film and I've asked you TWICE for examples and you've got nothing to support your cause.

If I didn't know any better, you're gay, and offended.

Originally posted by chilled monkey
Oh and

"This is an indepdent French film, which in NO WAY had an agenda to smear lesbianism, or portray them as psychos."

Oh really. It features a lesbian who turns out to psychotic, and it implies a connection between that and her sexuality. What do you call that.

That is why his film is trash.

A connection between her sexuality and being psycho? I call it OBSESSION! It's a common plot device in movies ALL THE TIME! It's not like they're saying all lesbians are psychos, and it's a disease. My god. You're taking this WAY too seriously, and to judge a movie on that is ludicrous.

I'd be interested to see what Aja can do with "The Hills Have Eyes", because the original bored me to tears, and disappointed me beyond all belief. The blood could atleast be red this time, not orange finger paint.

Like everyone has said it is about obssession and not lesbianism.

I think the lesbian aspect was just a plot device more used to distract the viewer from discovering what the twist ending was, so you wouldnt think nessescarily that she was in love with her, although it became more obvious as the film went on.

Originally posted by BackFire
The twist ending was very VERY cliched. I won't say more on this, but the movie would have been better without a generic, predictable twist. I'll tell you now, the twist ending in this movie is pretty much the default twist ending for a film.

Slow beginning. It took a while for the movie to get started.

Questionable dubbing. Sometimes the movie was dubbed, sometimes it was subtitled. It was kinda wierd.

I didn't like the dubbing mainly because the voiceover for Cécile De France.

As for these lesbian psycho arguments, get over it! So it's okay if a psycho is straight but if the psycho is gay, it's a problem?!

As for the movie, I loved it. It's the best horror I have seen in a long time (disregarding the two complaints above).

the ending was poor i have to admit

Originally posted by Wolfie

As for the movie, I loved it. It's the best horror I have seen in a long time (disregarding the two complaints above).

So, pretty much all the Horror forum heavyweights are in agreement that this is indeed the bst Horror flick we've seen in theatres in a loooooooong time.

Anyone up for a repeat viewing?

well i watched it again last night,lol but tried the subbed version as i watched it alone and not with the wife,she had to watch the dubbed version,i thought it was better subbed personally i loved this movie i expect big things from the director,i gotta say that her alter ego (the psycho) was 1 ugly mf,lol

in High Tension?? when the mom gets her neck slit open... does the bad guy f*ck her in her neck 😮

sorry 😮

I don't think so... I thought he was just digging deeper into her throat with the switchblade.

oh ok... 😕 I wasnt sure

Originally posted by Cinemaddiction
So, pretty much all the Horror forum heavyweights are in agreement that this is indeed the bst Horror flick we've seen in theatres in a loooooooong time.

Anyone up for a repeat viewing?

I'll probably rent the DVD, possibly buy it, though I won't see it again in theaters probably.

I don't know if it's the BEST horror I've seen in theaters, I liked 28 Days Later better, it was the best slasher movie I've seen in theaters though, period.

BREN, BackFire: I see your point (and thank you for being polite about it), but what I'm getting at is there are many examples of negative portrayals (hang on, examples coming up) and virtually no positive ones. Not only evil/insane characters, but good, innocent ones who die.

"So it's okay if a psycho is straight but if the psycho is gay, it's a problem?!" Yes, because there are COUNTLESS straight characters who are 'good' to balance it out. How many movies have you seen where the heroines are lesbians or where they are still alive and well by the end? And how many of them are LEAD characters?

You want examples of the "homosexuals as psychos" cliche in film? Hang on:

Basic Instinct, Heavenly Creatures, Lost and Delirious, High Art, Mulholland Drive, 24, All My Children, Babylon 5, Dark Angel, ER, Law & Order, Millennium, Northern Exposure, NYPD Blue, The Practice, Quantum Leap, Xena: Warrior Princess, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Smallville, Charmed etc

In the main, in horror films, sexuality is used as a plot and character device for the story, not a social commentary.

Like I said "it is about obssession and not lesbianism.

I think the lesbian aspect was just a plot device more used to distract the viewer from discovering what the twist ending was, so you wouldnt think nessescarily that she was in love with her, although it became more obvious as the film went on."

Heterosexuals as psychos,

Friday the 13th,
Halloween ( in fact jason and michael are probably asexual as they are not even human)
Hannibal Lecter Hetero-Psycho and Buffalo Bill Homo-psycho
The Shining
Last House on the Left
ANOES
PhoneBooth
Freeway
Killers
and countless other examples which for some reason escape me at the moment.

In general ,in movies,I think there are more hetero-psychos than homo-psychos.

Basic Instinct - Bi sexual who psycho towards men mostly.

Heavenly Creatures - based on true story, like Sister My Sister(name?)

Lost and Delirious- Nothing negative about this film at all, nothing psycho

Same for High Art, Mulholland Drive, Buffy the Vampire Slayer episodes.

Nothing negative about any of the above... especially not cliche.

She Hate Me is a good example of negative portrayl, can't stand the film.

As for the dubbing, I thought Cecile De France did an English voice over for her role for the American release?

Originally posted by Cinemaddiction
So, pretty much all the Horror forum heavyweights are in agreement that this is indeed the bst Horror flick we've seen in theatres in a loooooooong time.

Anyone up for a repeat viewing?

ive had this film for months now
saw it about 4 times
gets better each time