Advantages: It's mad, I tell you, MAD! Disadvantages: Outcome doesn't make much sense
of the truck and makes his way towards the front door. It would seem that Alex's family has an unwanted visitor??
Movies are like anything else. They go through fashionable phases. Over the last year to eighteen months there has been something of a renaissance in horror movies - gore and violence is back in fashion big time. None of this namby-pamby silly slasher stuff. Horror films are back to being what they should be. Horrific. Enter Switchblade Romance?.
Originally released in its native France as La Haute Tension, Switchblade Romance is completely mad. That's a difficult comment to justify without giving too much of the plot away, but suffice it to say that the director is obviously a nutcase. From the very beginning, the film exhibits a particularly gruesome approach to the subject matter. Our introduction to the film's killer shows he ...
Advantages: Great if you like horror Disadvantages: Possibly very frightening if you don't
Introduction:
Entitled 'Haute Tension' in it's native country of France, which translates into English as 'High Tension' Switchblade Romance delivers much more than simply high tension in this explosive and delightfully blood-soaked, riveting shocker of a film.
On my first viewing of the film, I began watching the film having no prior knowledge of it, only that it was French, and was supposedly a good horror film, I was not ready. I think upon my first viewing of the film I endured it rather than appreciated it, as in the midst of the action it was almost impossible to acknowledge the brilliance of it because of its absorbing nature.
My second viewing riveted me again to the screen but this time I was able to breathe ...
A Short Synopsis:
An uneasy beginning:
A bloodsplattered and injured woman running through ...
Advantages: A genuinely scary, tense, gory and well-made horror Disadvantages: Has a mindblowingly dreadful twist which ruins it
With more and more Hollywood horror films becoming either lame remakes or utter ****, it seems it's up to the rest of the world to begin making quality horror once again. Japan and South Korea seem to have taken up this challenge the most successfully, what with creepy psychological horrors such as The Ring, The Grudge and A Tale Of Two Sisters. Hell, even the UK has made a few good films (if you count Shaun of the Dead and Severence as horrors rather than comedies). But of all the places in the world, who'd have thought that France would be the country to produce one of the goriest, scariest and most tense horror films of recent years. The country that gave us Audrey Tautou and the laughing cow also gives world cinema the spectacle that is Haute Tension (called in the UK, for some bizarre reason, Switchblade Romance).
It tells ...
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