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High Tension
2003
· Movie
· 91 min
C
MEANRANK
61/100
Where it ranks
- Mean Score #3818
- IMDb #2910
- Google retired #2289
- Rotten Tomatoes #3489
- Metacritic #3841
- Letterboxd #3126
+8 more
- Rotten Tomatoes Critics #4248
- Rotten Tomatoes Audience #2826
- Metacritic Critics #4114
- Metacritic Audience #3073
- Criticker #2095
- Kinopoisk #3880
- AlloCiné #2591
- Trakt #3309
Every rating
41–84
out of 100
Split
Lowest is Rotten Tomatoes critics on 41, highest is Google on 84. Critics average 42, everyone else 66.
See the films the platforms disagree about most →Two college friends travel to a remote farmhouse for a study retreat. Their peaceful visit is shattered when a sadistic killer breaks into the home and brutally murders the family. One of the girls hides and then pursues the killer, who has taken her friend captive, leading to a violent and tense cat-and-mouse game across the French countryside.
Details
- Director
- Alexandre Aja
- Writers
- Alexandre Aja, Grégory Levasseur
- Studio
- Alexandre Films, EuropaCorp, MediaPro Pictures
- Released
- 18 June 2003
- Country
- France, Romania
- Language
- French
- Runtime
- 91 min
- Rated
- R
- Budget
- $2.5M
- Box office
- $6.3M
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