| Description |
1 online resource (streaming video file) (87 minutes): .flv file, sound |
| Summary |
The film that announced writer-director Alexandra Aja as a major new talent at the forefront of international horror cinema, HIGH TENSION remains a brutal achievement in the modern evolution of survivor horror and an early example of the violence and visceral chaos associated with the torture porn movement. The fever dream with which the film commences foreshadows the long nightmare it brazenly later sustains. For best friends Marie and Alexia college exams are not far away. In order to find some peace to study Alexia invites Marie to spend the weekend with her family at their remote farmhouse. The idyll only lasts for so long. The arrival of a stranger at the front door wielding a cutthroat razor sets in motion a chain of terrorizing events no one sees coming. Winner of Best Actress (Cécile de France), Best Director, and the Grand Prize of European Fantasy Film in Silver at the **Sitges - Catalonian International Film Festival**. Official Selection at the **Toronto International Film Festival** |
| Notes |
Title from title frames |
|
Film |
|
In Process Record |
| Performer |
Cécile de France, Maiwenn Le Besco, Philippe Nahon |
| Event |
Originally produced by Accent Film Entertainment in 2003 |
| Notes |
In English |
| Subject |
Motion pictures, French.
|
|
Foreign films.
|
|
Balts (Indo-European people)
|
|
Motion pictures.
|
|
Horror films.
|
|
Balts (Indo-European people)
|
|
Foreign films
|
|
Horror films
|
|
Motion pictures
|
|
Motion pictures, French
|
| Genre/Form |
Feature films
|
|
Feature films.
|
| Form |
Streaming video
|
| Author |
Aja, Alexandre, film director
|
|
de France, Cécile, actor
|
|
Le Besco, Maiwenn, actor
|
|
Nahon, Philippe, actor
|
|
Áccent Film Entertainment (Firm)
|
|
Kanopy (Firm)
|
|
