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Rene Rodriguez, Miami Herald: Makes for ghoulish, sick fun. Read more
Jeff Shannon, Seattle Times: A lame exercise, delivering shameless thrills at the expense of logic and genuine suspense. Read more
Robert K. Elder, Chicago Tribune: Works like a filmic jigsaw puzzle, one that ultimately inverts the genre, and powered by a bloody confection of violence and girls running around in sweat-caked T-shirts. Read more
Mick LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle: Very bloody, sometimes difficult to watch and sometimes just tiresome. Read more
Richard Roeper, Ebert & Roeper: An extremely well-made, very grisly and ultimately dishonest slasher film that's too clever for its own good. Read more
Bob Longino, Atlanta Journal-Constitution: Aja takes his time with his film, correctly building tension by letting his camera linger on Marie as she hears screams and slashes and rarely letting the air out to give moviegoers a chance to breathe. Read more
Bill Muller, Arizona Republic: It's certain that a second viewing would reveal numerous inconsistencies and unanswered questions, but because nobody will want to see it twice, we may never know. Read more
Wesley Morris, Boston Globe: It doesn't make an iota of sense. Read more
Kevin Crust, Los Angeles Times: For much of its duration the film is a case of intense fare done with an undeniable effectiveness and ingenuity -- until it lurches into a deplorable surprise twist. Read more
Eric Harrison, Houston Chronicle: I can't say much, except that we've seen it too many times in the past, and each time half the audience feels cheated. Read more
Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly: Even a blood feast this squalid can't get away with chain-sawing all logic. Read more
Ernest Hardy, L.A. Weekly: Slasher fans whose fright reflexes are set to hair-trigger mode will jump at High Tension's mathematically precise, fake-out scares. But they're likely to hate themselves for it even as they tremble. Read more
John Anderson, Newsday: Simply relentless in both its butchery and its stupidity. To say nothing of its lack of restraint. Read more
Jack Mathews, New York Daily News: One of the ugliest movies I've ever seen. Read more
Manohla Dargis, New York Times: Like the fairly recent Cabin Fever and like earlier slasher films of that grisly ilk, High Tension takes a fairly straightforward approach to its essential reason for being, namely the stagecraft of death. Read more
Roger Moore, Orlando Sentinel: This is sick. And sickening. Read more
James Berardinelli, ReelViews: For those who enjoy horror films and don't mind copious quantities of red-dyed fluids, this one is not to be missed. Read more
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: The philosopher Thomas Hobbes tells us life can be 'poor, nasty, brutish and short.' So is this movie. Read more
Mark Holcomb, Village Voice: Deficits are easy to overlook thanks to High Tension's knowing performances and unnerving combination of ambient sound, fluidly jittery cutting, and sly widescreen setups. Read more
Desson Thomson, Washington Post: Director Alexandre Aja, who wrote this with Gregory Levasseur, doesn't have a gift for horror suspense so much as a compleat geek knowledge of all the superior scare flicks that have preceded High Tension. Read more
Stephen Hunter, Washington Post: You have to give it to the filmmakers for their contempt of convention: no foreplay, no teasing, no steady buildup of dread, just a knock on the door and the slaughterer is there. Read more