 High Tension
Starring: Cecile de France, Maiwenn Le Besco, Philippe Nahon, Frank Khalfoun
Directed by: Alexandre Aja
Screenplay by: Alexandre Aja, Grégory Levasseur
Release Date: June 10th, 2005
MPAA Rating: R for graphic bloody killings, terror, sexual content and language.
Studio: Lionsgate Films
 Domestic: $3,681,066 (58.5%)
Foreign: $2,610,892 (41.5%)
Total: $6,291,958 (Worldwide)
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 Tagline: Everything is about to change.
Marie and Alexia are schoolmates and best friends. Hoping to prepare for their college exams in peace and quiet, they decide to spend a weekend in the country at Alexia’s parents’ secluded farmhouse. But in the dead of night, a stranger knocks on the front door. And with the first swing of his knife, the girls’ idyllic weekend turns into an endless night of terror.
Prepare to take a white-knuckle journey into the heart of fear with Lionsgate Films’ HIGH TENSION, the terrifying story of two girls’ battle for survival at the hands of a sadistic psychopath. Marking a return to the nightmarish intensity of 1970s horror classics, director Alexandre Aja reduces the genre to its bare essentials, building a narrative of intensifying dread that culminates in a truly shocking climax. Relentlessly tightening the screws of suspense, HIGH TENSION will have you struggling to catch your breath.
High Tension was originally shot in French as an ode to the 1970s American horror/slasher films I loved as a teenager. When Lionsgate Films decided to distribute the film in U.S. theaters, we were faced with the problem of how to best present the film in English to an American audience.
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