Haute tension (2003)

French Movie.

De knappe Marie wordt wakker in een ziekenhuisbed, maar ze heeft geen idee hoe ze daar terecht is gekomen. Als ze probeert op te staan, blijkt haar rug helemaal vol met pijnlijke krassen te zitten en heeft ze een diepe snee in haar schouder die de dokters hebben dichtgenaaid. Langzamerhand begint Marie zich weer de details van haar ongeluk te herinneren en het lijkt haast wel alsof ze door de hel is gegaan...

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French filmmaker Alexandre Aja writes and directs the slasher film Haute Tension, given the English title Switchblade Romance. Best friends Marie (Cécile De France) and Alex (Maïwenn Le Besco) go out to the countryside to visit Alex's parents. However, a homicidal delivery man (played by Philippe Nahon from Gaspar Noé'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 program. The film was aquired by US distributor Lions Gate Fi...
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lms in 2004 and quickly put into turnaround as an NC-17 release, though plans for that were scrapped due to a lack of theater support of the controversial rating. Retitled High Tension, the R-rated version is missing one minute of grisly gore and features a redubbed audio track by star Cécile De France.
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