The Brutality Of HIGH TENSION
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- Опубликовано: 11 ноя 2024
- High Tension (2003) is a brutal film that many people will find hard to stomach.
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The severed head resembled Alex. It was just a notion brought on by her psychosis. There's a huge metaphor for this scene. It was all in her "head". Marie standing in the closet, watching through the blinds was telling you to "read between the lines". There are TONS of these messages throughout this movie.
Wow I didn’t know that! Now I need to rewatch it!
I was sure that had a meaning the first time I saw it but was utterly confused. Glad you brought this up
When I rewatched it and figured out the mother was saying " Why" I kinda figured out that Marie was insane the whole time.
I found it (befoire i knew the plot) very strange how the mother looked at marie in the closet. Something in her eyes were off, like she would see into the eyes of her murderer instead of eyes of another victim. Still wouldnt have guessed this
Movie is trash, I won't take any rationalization. 🤣
Many years ago I told my mom about this movie, I think to this day she says most intense horror movie she ever saw. The first scene in the house with her hidden from the killer was pure tension, perfect sound effects and build up. Not to mention I discovered Muse from this movie, one of my favorite bands ever.
I was however pleasantly surprised when new born kicked in xD
I'm not a huge fan but The Resistance (album) was neat
@@Gurra88 resistance was alright.. best albums are show biz hullabaloo origins of symmetry absolution and black holes.. everything else is kinda meh to me with the new stuff but their are some great songs on the newest album that go hard as fk
I loveee muse and did not know they had a song in this movie, now I’ve gotta watch it
@@michaelfrancis116 it’s a great scene
Now I've finished the video and have another thought:
I never got the idea that Marie was really a serial killer. I think she imagined the type of person this "dude" would be if there really was a killer separate from herself. This would explain why there was seemingly no one there to get head from the head. Its her alter ego but she is also giving him a back story. I had always thought she only did this to Alex because she was obsessed with her.
And I thought that she didn't tell Alex about her past relationships because she didn't want to come out to her as being gay. I don't recall them ever discussing it
It really felt like a stretch, to me. Showing the killer out somewhere, completely separate from her, feels like a filmmaking cheat. To throw off any theorizing.
@@everforward5561 I agree. This movie's surprise ending is the ideal example of how NOT to write a surprise ending. The ending doesn't make any logical sense. It's like watching a murder mystery movie where the murderer turns out to be a new character who was not previously seen in the movie. It's cheating to not give the audience the chance to figure out who the murderer is from a list of suspects given earlier in the film. This movie seems to wanna achieve a Fight Club type ending but fails completely. The great surprise twist in Fight Club was shocking; but it still made sense. If you re watch Fight Club, not only does the twist make logical sense, but it also makes the odd bits of the film from the first viewing of the film make even more sense. Unlike Fight Club, this movie's ending completely contradicts the previous major events throughout the movie up to the big reveal. I hate the "unreliable narrarator" excuse for bad writing. This movie is a great slasher movie- up until the surprise ending. Fight Club's ending made an already great movie into a classic. The surprise ending of this otherwise great slasher movie ruins it.
I rally think they should've had it been that this obsession was her alter ego. I don't mind having the best friend be the killer; but it really needed to be better highlighted that she's fighting
Clue us in that she's dealt with mental issues; and she often struggles with desires unfamiliar to her. Thinking she's gay because this emerging alter ego is obsessed with her best friend. Whether in a drug-induced haze or a traumatic trigger; this alter ego personifies and Marie is battling control over herself. By the end of the film; as she realizes what happened and everything she saw was a twisted amalgamation of her broken psyche. And her best friend turning the knife on her. She has to come to grips she's not well, and pays for it in the end.
And we at least get a chance to see this "personality" she dreamt of slowly unravel. What her first kill was like. What the guy getting head was about; and perhaps how much this obsession of hers been festering. And this alter ego just finally took action on that impulse.
You're exactly right. She had to Invision someone else killing Alex's family and putting Alex in danger and her being the hero and saving the day so Alex would be indebted, and endured to her. She probably had never experienced psychosis before that night and her psyche created him as a way to cope with it.
@@dannyknightblade4592I just think of it as her own psychosis and inability to be truthful to Alex because she clearly loves Alex.
Maybe in a really f*cked up unhealthy way but STILL she does love her. She just has this obsession that if she tells her the truth it won't ever come true, and THAT right there I think is what starts her own psychosis. The reason she becomes a killer.
At once, I like it because it makes me realize Alex might have actually fallen for her if she gave her a chance but she was so afraid of her own possible failures she didn't want to even think about the possibility of rejection, I, as a straight guy, know that feeling very well.
Both Martyrs and High Tension are genre defining. Martyrs being a once watched, shocking and all around gruesome experience. High Tension, on the other hand, is more rewatchable (even if you know the twist) 😁
High Tension is a copy of Dean Koontz Intensity. Terrible terrible movie.
I would add Inside to that list as well.
Martyrs is a great film, but just a one-off for me. Too brutal in a real-world-violence way, even though the violence makes sense for the story.
~ Caretaker
I think I’m the only person who rewatches martyrs😂
But I’m too terrified to watch inside
Same. They’re my 2 favorite horror movies yet I’ve seen Martyrs once and High Tension many lol.
One of my favorite French horror films, the soundtrack is to die for. I own the uncut version for DVD, in behind the scenes clips it was stated that Marie wasn’t supposed to even be the killer, in fact there was supposed to be a showdown between her and the killer inside of a mill - but due to being rushed, and Luc Besson telling them to change it, it resulted into the twist that we’re left with.
It's great that you startet to talk about the movies at the end of your videos instead of just stopping after the plot is through! Keep this change, it adds a much more personal touch to your work!
i agree. i like it a lot
@15:36 "Who's the dude getting head from the literal head in the beginning?"
What I read is that there were scenes we didn't see, and a sequence of events we weren't shown (They were in the DVD extra and explained by director), that would've made all that make sense. What we are seeing is Marie telling the story of what happened while she's in the hospital/psych ward that we see at the end. We're seeing the events from her perspective. Then after she tells the story, she's shown video of the gas station killing, and confronted with the fact that she's actually the killer. So the things that don't add up or make sense are because she's telling the story, and she's crazy. A lot of what we saw, didn't actually happen. No overalls guy. No head! Where'd that truck come from? Probably didn't exist either. I think all we can be sure about is that she killed them and nothing else.
I think the only killing that can be confirmed is the gas station guy. She also has injuries at the end in the pysch ward that resemble injuries she gave the family. So I think she self harmed while having a pyschotic episode where she believed she killed the family.
I mean it would also explain why the gas station clerk was nervous. There was a mentally unwell person in his store who was likely covered in self inflicted injuries.
The gun scene felt like a metaphor for her wanting to kill Alex and herself both but she was ultimately unable to do it, so she then tried to kill herself but again was unable to do it.
The head in the truck scene was likely how Marie saw women and wasn't an actual murder.
This all stems from the fact Alex saw Marie in the pyschward which I doubt she'd do if her family was butchered by Marie.
Thank you! That's is the reason I hated this movie. Unreliable narrator or not.. for it to be a "story" it all needs to chain together .. that's part of the enjoyment. This movie just put stuff on screen.. and said "isn't this stressful, and scary?" The director calls it art. I call it fart.. because it stinks 😂
Maybe, but remember the mum said "why" she was asking her why she has done this
@@KarenHarman-sy8kh That would be really interesting if she hadn't killed the family and the mom just found her cutting herself up. That's a common response to self-harm too. Just why and horror. Then she runs off because she's having a psychotic break.
@@kingsarues1586so the family wasn’t really butchered? The only person to have been killed was the store clerk?
I remember watching this in 2005. My mom and I wanted to watch a foreign horror movie and this was one of those. The twist shocked us both. Thanks for reviewing this, Big Will ❤
Hey Will, I usually don't leave comments, but since this is the last video saying the names of all Patreons and RUclips Members, I gotta say: Congratulations. Your content is incredible and truly unique, and I'm glad you've come so far from when I subscribed, a time when all you said at the end of every video was "Big thanks to Dom for supporting the channel". Keep up with the great content man!
A lot of people give this movie shit for the twist, saying it doesn't make sense but the story is being told from Marie's perspective. She is a very unreliable narrator. The only thing that I had trouble with was the head scene which I've since come to see as maybe the awakening of her alter ego or a representation of how Alex makes her feel. Either way, I really enjoyed this flick. Great watch! Nice vid, Will!
I get the twist but I dont think it was the right direction to go in for this film. Theres nothing wrong with simplicity in a movie sometimes. A random disgusting killer without a known motive being chased by her would have been so much more effective! The twist was not needed at all
@@bo2720 I agree, it doesn't need the twist but it is there so may as well help others make sense of it.
What do you mean? Protagonist chasing and killing the bad guy is the ending of almost every horror movie. Just enjoy.
I think people are just more annoyed at the "it was all in her head" twist, it's very overused at this point
@@gamingbutter5768 hey, horror specialist, and this is just flat out wrong. Almost every slasher movie? MAYBE. Every horror movie is just plain out wrong. It’s even more obvious that you’re only thinking slashers because you refer to the villain as simply “the bad guy” which sounds just about the same level as outsiders of the genre saying “the killer” or something when talking about it in a generalizing sense. All these people be the same thinking horror movies are automatically slashers and it’s why some unfortunate stereotypes of the genre exist.
I swear this man is a top tier content creator
I feel like he we would be doing better in number if it content wasnt the kind that youtube don't push often, thats why there is patreon i guess
Not exactly.
This movie was heavily inspired by a novel Intensity by Dean Koontz. The family massacre, the van sequence, the gas station interaction, the main character, that sneaks around the house and follows the antagonist - there are so much similarities.
They only changed the second half of the movie, which is the coolest in the book, and added "she is insane and none of that is real" twist.
Highly recommend the novel, it's great.
I wish Aja just said it was inspired or a personal adaptation of his own. The movie gets such a bad rep because it’s seen to be ripping off the story but the movie is so good. I mean, if he had stolen it, AT LEAST say that stuff what I said at the start instead of just straight up denying it after admitting he read the book beforehand like I hear people say
French people didn’t unnerve me until I found this RUclips channel. Thanks a lot, Will
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Tu fais bien d’avoir peur de moi lol
Then you never met one, heheh
Some of them will scare you with their English but otherwise nice people
French people didn’t unnerve you??
This film also goes by the name "Switchblade Romance" for those who might be confused.
I actually just watched this movie a few days ago, so I'm glad you reviewed it. So brutal and that twist was insane, really played with my head. Genius. I loved it!
Genius? Think about it , it’s impossible! Plot hole a mile wide!... 🤦♂️🤪🤮👎
That explains everything, she was never actually endangered with her life or confronted the man face to face with her ambushes & always had the upper hand.
High Tension was one of the 1st Horror films disturbed me as a kid, then you may wonder where my parents were when I saw it. Actually, I saw this movie with my family, but it's not the one, I remember when I saw also Martyrs (2008), I was younger and seeing it again as a grown person, it's truly shocking how explicit the violence is in the film.
A question I also have is, were did the truck/van come from? Marie came to the house with Alex in Alex's car, so how did she have the van. If she had snuck out and went to get the truck with no one knowing it would also explain why the room looked like no one was sleeping in it, because no one did. It would also explain why the father would open up the door to an unknown man, because it was actually just Marie. The truck/van just seemed to just appear out of nowhere.
Very good questions. What I read is that there were scenes we didn't see, and a sequence of events we weren't shown (They were in the DVD extra and explained by director), that would've made all that make sense. What we are seeing is Marie telling the story of what happened while she's in the hospital/psych ward that we see at the end. We're seeing the events from her perspective. Then after she tells the story, she's shown video of the gas station killing, and confronted with the fact that she's actually the killer. So the things that don't add up or make sense are because she's telling the story, and she's crazy. I don't know why they didn't stick to that "story line". It made more sense.
she most likely got it while going for a smoke. Her going to bed never happened. It was a misdirection. Thats i think why the Father opened the Door. He knew she was Outside smoking.
The truck, like the male murderer likely never existed. Either that it belonged to Alex’ parents.
Marie, the delusional psychopath is the unreliable narrator giving her version of events.
Marie masturbating was just her driving the truck to Alex's house.
So many plot holes in this, overrated
Nice to hear you got the Bully video game soundtrack playing at the background of the opening 😎
I remember watching this film like the first night I had my own place many yrs ago at 18 and it became one of my favs! Absolutely Insane story and everything about how it was shot and the graininess that was added brought about an interesting layer to me! ✌️
It was like Dean Koontz "Intensity" with the house assault, pretending to not be in the house, hiding under the bed, getting into the van, hiding in the gas station, and the gas station attendent being killed.
They did kinda steal that opening. But it ended up being way more intense and better executed.
please do a whole video of new french extremity films specifically! i know you'd crush it
I remember watching this years ago! I was amazed with it.
This movie is sort of reminiscent of a book called Intensity by Dean Koontz, except in the book the killer is real and there’s no twist. Based on the title I would imagine the director took some inspiration. The book is very good, especially the beginning
He didnt take inspiration, he ripped it off,
@@Ezoangelofdeathdefinitely, the book is wayy better than this stinker of a film. I didn’t realize dean koontz had sued this guy until I looked it up
@@aerbaer6572 they did a TV Movie of it, John C McGinnley plays Edgler Foreman Vess to disturbing perfection, and I wasnt kidding, they rip that movie off scene by scene, there are scenes they don't even try to alter it, it's bullshit, and that tv movie is a million times better then this unoriginal rip off wannabe horror flick,
@@aerbaer6572 Well, that’s like…your opinion, man.
Mine is that they did steal it but made a far better movie.
FOH
I like movies like this. They have great replay value because if it's good enough, you'll have to watch it again but from a different perspective.
Another film that came out years later that's similar is 'Fractured' Slightly heavier on the psychological side of things, but still a great watch.
Its amazing how little it takes to knock a limb off in these movies
Yep fearnet or fear tv something like that this movie scarred me the whole home invasion part was like something I never saw when I was younger now I can put this movie to rest in my brain thank you WILL!
The Animorph joke got me. Good one Big Will!
The fact Marie did all this is disgusting and sickening.
High Tension was advertised in a bonus for Saw 2’s DVD called “Full Disclosure Report”. It was a short bonus video made in the style of an early 2000s news documentary and it took place between the first and second Saw movies. This movie was advertised in the commercial break.
That whole decade had nothing but torture porn movies. No wonder I didn't go a lot to the movies during that period.
I remember watching that movie on TV and it was divided into two parts,, my sister wasn't fan of horrors, but we were so hooked on it, we were waiting the second part whole next Sat))
Man I loved the fact "Newborn" by Muse was in this movie, turned me on to the band.
My mother just bought me earplugs yesterday. Nice to know that I won't be using them anymore.
Update: after finishing the video it seems like earplugs weren't an issue.
I never really got that opening scene of the "killer" it really make sense when you know who the killer is
This movie confused me. So like when she was killing the little bro was she really seeing outside of the closet or no? And I died laughing when you said “she’s a pervert” lol 😂
Kind of sad not to hear my name anymore but I'm so glad more people are supporting the channel. You are one of my favorite youtuber see ya in the next video.
I'm not sure if this is the correct name of the movie but there's a French film called ( I think?) "Ils" which translates to "Them".
I'd love to have Will cover this because shortly after, you had not just 1 but 2 American "copycat" films with "The Strangers" & it's sequel.
( I think there's a 3rd but can't remember the name now)
I always remember seeing the unrated in theaters and would never forget how graphic this was….brutal
I figured out the twist not even halfway through when I realised things weren’t adding up. I wish they tried to hide it until the very end
When she got into the truck. And then at the gas station got out herself? And didn’t help the other woman? Then he just drives off with her still in the truck. I was like every sane person would’ve helped her. And no way the woman would’ve stayed in there knowing she could easily escape. That scene had me like ??????????? But the end makes it make sense lol
So how'd she get the truck if she rode in with Alex to her parents? Unless all that was in her head too and she drove to Alex's house in the truck.
She was always in the truck/van. The car scene was fake. She had the girl tied up in the back of the van the whole time.
I wear ear plugs to bed.......and i can assure you now i am not going to from this day on, great video, love this film
The head he’s getting on with at the start is actually Alex’s if you pay attention. It’s Marie’s delusion, and not a story telling error as it wasn’t happening.
I remember my nan would tuck me into bed and throw on High Tension just before bedtime!
Why
@@420dripolai5 Tough love
😂😂😂
I remember seeing this on FEARnet back in like 2009 or something. It was called "Haute Tension" when i seen it.
"French movies have a real talent for getting under the skin"
That one scene in Martyrs: *nervous laugh*
And where did the van come from? They came in another car. So...??
This movie was my first foreign horror movie when I was maybe 10 or 11 I loved this movie back then and I’m glad you talked about it it’s been a while since I’ve seen it
Your puns are next level in this review. Well done mate 😄😄
16:23"When she was having fun 360 no scoping little kids" had me dead 💀🤣
I remember watching this when I was pretty young and thinking it was food but very disturbing in what Alex had to endure.
Looking back now, I don't understand why they had the first scene in the movie when they could have just started with Marie running through the woods. I remember being surprised by the twist but in hindsight it seems that the first shot gives it away immediately
Horrormovies on the french countryside have always had that special feeling to them, even going back to And soon the Darkness. New french extremity may be a word for it, but I wouldn't really know how to describe the feeling these movies create. It's a weird sense of curiosity as well, I really don't like gore heavy horror but movies like this one or Frontiers are just too well done to not give them a watch
Hold up-- a "suspiciously nice car"? That thing looks like a frickin' Datsun from the 80s. 😆
First time i saw this as a kid, it really scared the crap outta me
A very brutal french horror movie
Watching before it gets age restricted
Hell yeah, bew Big Will video
Pretty sure she was in the first mission impossible. Was a underrated good slasher.
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Every time a family pet appears in a Big Will video I let out out an audible groan
The twist was a last minute change, which is why the movie doesn't match it well lol.
The way you disguise your ads is crazy good
This was literally the first horror movie I ever watched when I was a kid 💀 It didn’t traumatize me or anything but it’s a good movie !
Literally the complete opposite for me, traumatized me for YEARS, watching it back as an adult idk why it did but yeah can remember many nights seeing those headlights in my dreams lmao
@@dustins4356 oh wow 😯 Maybe it wasnt that scary to me? 😂 Idk lmao. Im sorry that happened to you tho
Dude you should do a video on frontier(s) another French one for ya.
As a lesbian I can confirm this is what we do all the time
Her being a lesbian is incidental aka not at all central to the story.
As a gay, I can confirm the same.
@@77CreationBut it is a part of her, like if someone was ginger I could say the same thing in this comment about that
@@cookiecutter9411 no, it's not
I remember the first time I seen this movie! I could not move not even to pee! I think I sat there intrigued and in shock all at the same time while trying to figure out WTF was going on!!!! 😳😲😯😮😕
What's with people calling the ground the floor, do they never go outside?
Bro could’ve just said “the landline’s been cut” lmao
Bro your channel has blown up cheers glad I got in early
This movie also goes by the title, Switchblade romance.
There's another French horror you might enjoy, Will. It's called Frontiers. I don't think it's especially groundbreaking in anything, but it was scary as hell just the same.
As someone who uses ear plugs to sleep, I can assure that you will hear someone getting their head chopped off with a cabinet.
Those "thump" sounds are greatly amplified. I´d say you are more likely to hear that with the ear plugs than without.
That segue into the sponsored ad was smooth as fuck.
It's thanks to this movie that I discovered the band muse. I think it was new born that was playing throughout the movie. Good stuff
High Tension is such a great movie, I feel like this movie is highly underrated.
Facts.
Critics erroneously think that the twist doesn’t make sense, when the explanation is simple…
…Marie is delusional and therefore an unreliable narrator.
One of my favorite horrors of all time.
@@77Creation the twist made sense to me tho. It was a shocker, but It make sense.
Or highly “ overrated “ cos of that implausible “ twist” which means a plot hole 🕳 to the center of the earth!..🤦♂️🤮😂
One of the few "good" exploitation films: I just wished that they used Marie's real self for the final sequence.
They did, in parts, which was the right touch.
This is a brilliant slasher with a poor twist. The twist itself is still good but it’s overall context makes no sense. Don’t get me wrong, I’ve been trying to make the best sense out of it in defense for this awesome movie but some things are just too off track to work with my rationalizations. Won’t stop me from trying it out fully tho!
One of the best movies I have ever watched
The plot twist left me shocked
I love this movie because it got so good hints like when Marie was climaxing, the killer came in this exact moment.
Also I think the killer and his ugly van is just a made-up symbol for her craving sexual desire for Alex.
That twist was terrible…It made absolutely no sense.
She has a mental illness she killed them all but didn’t know
"they make them handsfree now" pahahaha
That poor driver at the end took.....The Wrong Turn.... XD
Nice the bell finally did its job and I got here early
Never heard urinals pronounced that way
For some reason this movie heavily reminds me of the Dean Koontz novel Intensity.
They lifted the first 15 minutes from his book/movie Intensity, as you probably know.
Ajas version is far better.
I actually enjoyed this movie when I watched it yes it was completely disturbing it's just hard to find good movies good horror movies nowadays so I get on shutter and I watch some bangers this right here is one of them I think I was honestly the only one that saw the twist coming at the end 😅
I thought this was a regular slasher until the twist
I'm still laughing at "your-I-nul."
If you ever come to the point, Seeth Tzeentach has a funny clip from the video and roll the names over it. Like here you could have used the mindblowing scene loop over and over while slowly (as faster as more to come) role up the names.
1:25 Since when was The Creeper in this movie? Sorry had to XD
NO WAY I JUST WATCHED THIS YESTERDAY
The twist makes 0 sense also, how does she drive 2 cars at once. How does she lock her self in the back of the van she's driving.
The screenwriter watch too much Fight Club apparently
I still have no idea at ALL what this movie is about?
I watched this and it became my second favorite horror film.
This is one of my FAVORITE movies and after I recommend it, I always become the “ go to “ for movie recs 🤣👏🏾
You'd love Titane. French film about ... um ... REALLY liking cars.
My question with this was always “where did the van come from?” They drove there together & she wasn’t local so, where’d did it come from along w/ the saw in from which it came?! Lol
They did drive there together, except they were in the van. The girl was always tied up in the back.
I hated this. I never understood the hype, I thought it was dull as hell. Something must be wrong with me.
We had mobile phones in 2003 dude…