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The Essential New French Extremity Movies

March 1, 2025 by EJ Moreno

EJ Moreno looks at seven iconic extreme French films… During the 2000s, American horror fans saw a rise in extreme violence in their horror. From Hostel to Saw, it was fair to say that things weren’t the cheesy fun slashers we saw decades before. But where did this start? For many film fans, we look […]

Filed Under: Articles and Opinions, EJ Moreno, Featured, Movies Tagged With: baise-moi, high tension, Inside, Irreversible, Martyrs, Them, Trouble Every Day

Ranking Alexandre Aja’s Movies From Worst to Best

September 28, 2024 by admin

Casey Chong ranks the films of Alexandre Aja… French director Alexandre Aja has explored different genres throughout his illustrious 25-year career from the post-apocalyptic romance Furia in 1999 to the single-location sci-fi thriller Oxygen in 2021, but his most celebrated works remain his horror films, beginning with the ultra-nihilistic High Tension a.k.a. Haute Tension and […]

Filed Under: Articles and Opinions, Casey Chong, Movies Tagged With: Alexandre Aja, Crawl, Furia, high tension, Horns, Mirrors, Oxygen, Piranha 3D, The 9th Life of Louis Drax, The Hills Have Eyes

High Tension set for Limited Edition 4K Ultra HD release from Second Sight

October 15, 2023 by Gary Collinson

Second Sight Films has announced a brand-new Limited Edition 4K/Blu-ray Dual Edition Box set release of director Alexandre Aja’s (The Hills Have Eyes, Piranha 3D) 2003 shocker High Tension (a.k.a. Switchblade Romance).  A cult classic of the New French Extremity movement, High Tension stars Cécile de France (The French Dispatch) and Maïwenn (The Fifth Element) […]

Filed Under: Gary Collinson, Movies, News, Physical Media Tagged With: Alexandre Aja, Cecile De France, high tension, Maïwenn, Philippe Nahon, Second Sight Films

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