Best friends Marie and Alexia decide to spend a quiet weekend at Alexia's parents' secluded farmhouse. But on the night of their arrival, the girls' idyllic getaway turns into an endless night of horror.
Very bloody, sometimes difficult to watch and sometimes just tiresome.
– Mick LaSalle,
San Francisco Chronicle,
10 Jun 2005
rotten:
A lame exercise, delivering shameless thrills at the expense of logic and genuine suspense.
– Jeff Shannon,
Seattle Times,
10 Jun 2005
fresh:
You have to give it to the filmmakers for their contempt of convention: no foreplay, no teasing, no steady buildup of dread, just a knock on the door and the slaughterer is there.
– Stephen Hunter,
Washington Post,
10 Jun 2005
rotten:
Director Alexandre Aja, who wrote this with Gregory Levasseur, doesn't have a gift for horror suspense so much as a compleat geek knowledge of all the superior scare flicks that have preceded High Tension.
– Desson Thomson,
Washington Post,
10 Jun 2005
rotten:
An extremely well-made, very grisly and ultimately dishonest slasher film that's too clever for its own good.