High Tension (2003)

Published: Oct. 17, 2023, 2 p.m.

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It's October, so that means it's once again time for Catching Up On Cinema's annual, \u201cKyle's Killer October\u201d event month!

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All month long, Catching Up On Cinema's resident horror enthusiast, Kyle, will be taking creative control of the program, offering up new reviews for a wide variety of horror flicks from week to week.

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This week, Kyle and Trevor review Alexandre Aja's, Haute/High Tension (2003)!

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An early film in the unofficial, \u201cNew French Extremity\u201d movement of the 2000's, Alexandre Aja's Haute/High Tension (2003) is a slickly produced, beautifully shot, and exceptionally brutal home invasion thriller with a novel twist.

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Best experienced without spoilers, the film is nevertheless a very taut and immediate experience, such that it proves a worthwhile horror experience, even divorced from its twists and gimmicks.

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