Haute tension (2003)

AKA: High Tension

Film details

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Year2003
CountryFrance
GenreSlasher
TypeMovie
Runtime91m
CastCécile De France, Maïwenn, Philippe Nahon, Franck Khalfoun, Andrei Finti, Oana Pellea, Marco Claudiu Pascu, Jean-Claude de Goros, Bogdan Uritescu, Gabriel Spahiu

Review

"Director Alexandre Aja manages to create one of the most layered and suspenseful slasher films ever made since "Halloween" and while displaying often disturbing scenes of graphic violence, the film's main point is its atmosphere and tension as these two people play a game of cat and mouse trying to outwit one another relentlessly. The film continuously runs on a loop of a pretty plot-less and utter pointless violence and gore which becomes an exercise in snuff and brutality that didn't satisfy any need I had for a true horror movie." - Felix Vasquez Jr., Cinema Crazed

Ranking history

The 1,000 Greatest Horror Films

EDITIONS IN TOP 1,00011
HIGHEST#652015
LOWEST#1672026
Top 1,000Outside Top 1,000Missing ranking data

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The 21st Century’s Greatest Horror Films

EDITIONS RANKED7
HIGHEST#122024
LOWEST#272020
Published rankingNot ranked (outside published list)

The list was not updated from 2016 to 2019 or in 2022. It expanded from a Top 250 to a Top 500 in 2021. Full rankings beyond the published lists are not available. Dotted segments and hollow points indicate editions in which the film was outside the published list; their exact ranks are unknown.

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