High Tension Minus One Edit
by CBB
When the director of the original decided to include a plot twist towards the ending, not everyone agreed that it was a good move to make. This is what this movie looks like without it.
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(8 votes, average: 8.50 out of 10, rated)
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original film name: High Tension / Haute Tension
film studio name: Europa Corp.
Date Original Film Was Released: 2003 (Fr) 2005 (US)
Date Edit Was Released: 11 Jul 2005 NR: Nov 2006
Original Runtime: 91 min
New Runtime: 74 min
Amount of time Cut/Added: 17 min cut
Cuts removed/added/extended:
- removed beginning dream sequence and hospital scene
- added new starting credits
- removed the telephone call in the filling station with the police
- added the cut telephone wires scene from the house (mirrored, strectched and recoloured)
- removed the killer dropping the bullets scene
- removed the entire ending sequence starting after Marie beats the killer
- added the hospital scene from the beginning and part of the hospital scene from the end
DVD – Features:
- Language: English, German, French
- English subtitles
- Trailer
- Trailershow
- 3 deleted scenes
- Animated menus
- Scene Selection Menus
- Cover and Disk Art
- presented in NTSC 16:9 2.35:1 anamorphic widescreen
- ac-3 5 channel sound
Conceptual improvements/advancements of edit over original:
High Tension in its original version is very tense. The director was obviously very ambitious about this project. The movie started as a slasher movie, which in its very cruelty can only be compared to Texas Chainsaw Massacre (although most people compare it to that one because of the motorized saw).
But that did not seem to be enough for the director, maybe because he is too French to just follow a superficial storyline. So he constructed a plot twist, turning our maiden hero to the killer, which was… shocking, because it did not make any sense at all (were there two cars, when did Marie start making things up, what about the video camera in the filling station, how could she be so strong, where did the weapons come from, what was real after all????). Our edition contains no plot twist. Marie isn’t the killer and of course you never ever suspect her to be one. She tries to save her girlfriend, goes after the killer, beats him to death and that was just too much for her to take, she ends up in hospital
Time needed for the edition
planning: 6 weeks
editing: 3 days
sound editing: 1 day
trailer: 1 day
DVD layout and features: 2 days
persons involved: 6
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I haven’t finished this movie because the subtitles are a real problem. They appear sometimes a full second before the dialogue, and when characters are talking back and forth it’s hard to keep up or know which character is saying what. The French are wordy enough without the subtitles not matching the audio. As an avid watcher of foreign films, I can say that the timing of subtitles is as important as the translation. Proper subtitles should never appear before you hear the spoken words. They should appear about 200 milliseconds AFTER the dialogue begins and remain on the screen between 500 ms and 1 sec after it ends (more for longer sentences).
It’s a shame, because this edit sounds great, but the subtitles make it near-impossible to watch.
Review by asterisk8 — October 2, 2008 @ 9:10 pm
i’m thinking you should have just left out the hospital scenes all together. i don’t think making it so that she “couldn’t handle it” and having her committed makes much more sense than the original edit.
Review by stalkersrage — October 30, 2008 @ 8:14 pm
The ending was a bit rushed, but removing the god-awful twist is a gift of the Gods. Thank you for this wonderful horror movie.
Review by r8s8fr8 — November 27, 2009 @ 7:32 pm
There is an English audio track, so I’m not sure why asterisk8 had a huge problem with the subtitles.
Anyway, this was a very nice and enjoyable edit.
It was a little bit slow to start, compared to the original, but of course this edit makes alot more sense and therefore more enjoyable.
There was one slight technical problem though. Near the end, at the 1:08:35 mark, the audio changed to French on the English audio track.
It’s only one or two lines of dialogue though, but I did have the subtitles on, so no biggie.
9/10
Review by zeppelinrox — January 13, 2010 @ 6:56 pm