Gerne fans can look forward to a really badass slasher horror film tonight. After 21 years on the German Index, the French splatter cult film is finally being shown in Germany
Director Alexandre Aja’s High Tension (The Hills Have Eyes) shocked French audiences back in 2003. German audiences did not get to see the horror shocker, as it ended up on the Index in Germany. It was only last year that the uncut home cinema version was released for the first time as a 4K mediabook with an 18 FSK rating. And tonight, after 21 years, we can watch High Tension without censorship on Joyn.
This is what the splatter film High Tension is about
Alex (Maïwenn Le Besco) and Marie (Cécile De France) are inseparable friends and want to visit Alex’s family in the country together. But the quiet trip turns into a nightmare when a crazed truck driver suddenly attacks the parents and leaves a bloodbath in his wake. The two friends must now stick together and try to escape the bestial killer.
(High Tension)
High Tension is a “gore slab, suspense movie and mindfuck mystery “
While High Tension ended up on the list of media harmful to minors in Germany, the splatter film was released in cinemas in France with an FSK 16 rating. This may have been due to the fact that in the early 2000s our hard-boiled neighboring country was flooded with sensational slasher films that fell under the New French Hardness category. These included High Tension, which marked the breakthrough for director Alexandre Aja and set the course for his career in Hollywood.
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If you appreciate good carnage, you shouldn’t miss High Tension. The classic splatter gets down to business quickly and leaves behind the kind of bloodbath we want from uncompromising genre cinema. Daniel Fabian from our sister site Filmstarts agrees:
Rarely has the mix of gore slab, suspense cinema and mindfuck mystery worked so well – even if you could now open up a barrel or two in terms of logic, which has always bothered many.
