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Haute Tension (aka: Switchblade Romance / X-Tension): (PAL Version)

Starring: Cecile De France, Philippe Nahon, Maiwenn Le Besco
Director: Alexandre Aja
Studio: J-Bics (Thai)
Rating: 18 Up
Genre: Horror


Sku # : 17817
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Audio Format: DD 5.1 Surround
Video Format: Widescreen 2.35:1
Languages: English, Thai
Subtitles: English, Thai
Region Code: ALL, PAL
Year Made: 2003
Running Time: 87


Please note: Please verify that PAL formatted DVD will play on your machine prior to purchasing this title. (PAL TV and DVD players required.)

French filmmaker Alexandre Aja writes and directs the brutal slasher film Haute Tension, given the English title Switchblade Romance. Best friends Marie (Cecile De France) and Alex (Maiwenn Le Besco) go out to the countryside to visit Alex's parents. However, a homicidal delivery man (played by Philippe Nahon from Gaspar Noe's brutal movies) ends up at their house and starts killing everyone. Alex and Marie fight for their lives with help from several means of weaponry. Switchblade Romance was shown at the 2003 Toronto Film Festival as part of the Midnight Madness program.

Haute Tension which translates to "High Voltage" (or is it "High Tension"?), but the English title for some reason is Switchblade Romance is a typical serial killer taking care of business film. He stalks out a house in a rural area, and decides to get rid of its occupants.

The inspiration for Haute Tension as mentioned by the director during the introduction came from horror films from the early 1980's. One scene in particular was ALMOST entirely lifted from Maniac. As a matter of fact, it was clearly a nice respectable homage which can only be appreciated fully by those who have seen the film.

There is some seriously nice gore in this film, and it showed most of it with sadistic glee reminiscent of a Fulci film. A brilliant decapitation and a throat being slit stood out for me. However, the film did hold back on the gore as it could have been much more brutal but they decided to not show it for whatever reason. There was a barbed wire beating and a shotgun blast which they chose not to show...



Un film tel que Haute tension est a ranger a cote du recent Jeepers Creepers: gore, visceral, ouvertement sexue, renouant avec un cinema oublie, celui des annees 70, de la liberalisation de la censure, de l??eclosion de cineastes aussi indispensables que Wes Craven ou Tobe Hooper. Il en devient d??autant plus fragile, vulnerable, car sujet a certaines attaques faciles que ses aines ont du subir par le passe. La premiere force du film se situe dans cette capacite a ressusciter des images et des sensations oubliees, celles engendrees par des plans gore traumatisants, craspecs, d??un cinema qui prend aux tripes et met litteralement mal a l??aise. Il faut voir Philippe Nahon poursuivre une Maiwenn Le Besco ensanglantee, arme d??une scie circulaire, pour se rendre compte a quel point ces images manquaient reellement au cinema depuis plusieurs annees. C??est tout un pan du cinema qui ressurgit au detour de certains plans, gore, inventif, serieux, ne tombant jamais dans la parodie, certes ingenieuse, de Brain Dead. Au contraire, Haute tension ne cherche jamais a enterrer le genre, a en constituer le point d??orgue. Il s??agit simplement pour le cineaste de raviver une etincelle, de donner sa pierre a l??edifice, de l??exhumer par le biais de personnages credibles et d??une histoire plus coherente qu??elle ne veut le laisser croire.



Haute tension est un film qui se construit peu a peu autour de son personnage principal, auquel chaque nouveau detail scenaristique apporte un peu plus de profondeur. Tour a tour decale, effraye, inquietant, ce personnage beneficie du jeu tout en finesse de Cecile de France, dont on ne dira jamais assez qu??elle est la plus grande des jeunes actrices francaises du moment. Elle donne a son personnage une vigueur, une sensualite, qui n??est pas sans rappeler l??erotisme de la jeune adepte du piercing du Retour des morts-vivants 3. C??est justement dans cet erotisme troublant, voire choquant, que le film abat ses meilleures cartes. Dans cette faculte a utiliser le sang en tant qu??element scenaristique et masturbatoire. Le gore n??est plus un accessoire mediocre pour instaurer la tension, mais un instrument sexuel derangeant, scandaleux, et revelateur du caractere de Marie. Le gore ne fait plus seulement peur (ou rire, accessoirement), il renseigne sur les tenants de l??histoire, et se transforme en metaphore du premier rapport entre les deux filles. Rapport qui n??aura bien entendu lieu que durant le bain de sang final et orgasmique.



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