It’s time for a new episode in our Best Foreign Horror Movies video series (released online under the Revisited banner), and in this one we’re going back to 2003 to look at the first French film to be covered in this series, director Alexandre Aja’s breakthrough feature High Tension (watch it HERE). Check it out in the embed above!
Written by Aja and Grégory Levasseur (and, some believe, heavily inspired by the Dean Koontz novel Intensity), High Tension has the following synopsis:
A beautiful young Frenchwoman, Alex, travels out to the country to visit her family and brings along her friend Marie. Soon after they get settled in the secluded home, Alex’s parents are brutally attacked by a psychotic truck driver, who proceeds to stalk the two women as well. When the killer kidnaps Alex in his truck, Marie hides in the back to try and rescue her, but the bloodshed is far from over.
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The film stars Cécile de France, Maïwenn Le Besco, and Philippe Nahon.
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The High Tension episode of the show was Written and Narrated by Andrew Hatfield, Edited by Paul Bookstaber, Produced by John Fallon, and Executive Produced by Berge Garabedian.
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The previous episodes of Best Foreign Horror Movies covered Dario Argento’s Deep Red, Lucio Fulci’s Zombie, Hideo Nakata’s Ringu, Dario Argento’s Sleepless, Tomas Alfredson’s Let the Right One In, and Tommy Wirkola’s Dead Snow. A few of those episodes can be seen below. To see more, head over to the JoBlo Horror Originals YouTube channel – and subscribe to the channel while you’re there!
