Hey folks, Harry here... Now I'm one of the folks that absolutely loves HAUTE TENSION - the incredibly well made slasher style horror film that just completely was everything I wanted from the movie when it played at BUTT-NUMB-A-THON 5 about a year and a half ago. Now, I'm one of those folks that can actually read subtitles and enjoy a film all at the same time. About 99% of you folks are as well... unfortunately - we all know a good many people that can only get halfway through a sentence before it leaves being replaced by another whole sentence to wade through. Actually - honestly - I can't say I know any of these pathetic folks... but apparently they exist in enormous numbers. I mean - this is a very hard R-rated horror film - which pretty much means an 18 and older demographic... One that was brought up reading in chat rooms faster than any film's subtitles have ever moved. But the great ignorant masses of Americans (whom I've never met) are so many allegedly - that Lionsgate has gone and dubbed the film, and re-edited it a bit. It is possible that they've done a really good job. The voices in the trailer - though we don't actually see them in conjunction with mouths moving. The voices don't sound like the typical hackjob, but I've never really seen a dub job I've preferred over simply subtitling a film. Same for most filmlovers. I don't know about the quotes in the trailer, if they refer to this dubbed version - or if those come from critics that saw the original French print. I don't know how this version will play - but damn I love that original film!

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A DISCUSSION REGARDING SOME SPOILER ASPECTS OF THIS FILM LAYS BELOW THIS POINT. IF YOU HAVE NOT SEEN THE FILM - I ABSOLUTELY RECOMMEND THAT YOU NOT READ THE FOLLOWING, EVEN THOUGH I AM NOT OUT AND OUT REVEALING THE SPOILERS, IF YOU'VE A SHRED OF ANALYTICAL ABILITY YOU WILL DISCERN WHAT I'M TALKING ABOUT. SPOILER FOLLOWS:

Reply from Harry to Talkbacker 433 aka Jeremy. The turn you're talking about - if given a bit of thought and consideration suddenly very much makes sense when you consider the following. The point of view from which the film is being told. And the condition of that person's eventual state of awareness. Applying logic to a horrifically disturbed and tragically unfortunate mental state - well - while I certainly agree that it isn't the lazy A to B storyline of nearly EVERY SLASHER FILM SINCE THE DAWN OF THE GENRE - but rather - an incredible exploration on what goes on behind those cold dead eyes that reside within that White Kirk Mask, within the Hockey Mask, within that stitched face and chainsaw. HAUTE TENSION's story and perspective is ultimately in my opinion not only beyond the lumbering tired genre steps that have grown continually tired and trite - but thrilling and challenging. The lazy thing is to merely declare that 'left turn' as random - but if you think about all that that turn means, what we know about such turns in the rather cold reality of these conditions and documented cases - How is it any more fantastic than such brilliant suspense films as DRESSED TO KILL, BODY DOUBLE or even PSYCHO. My initial reaction was that it was a random left turn, but after revisiting the film, and further consideration - which I felt the first 4/5ths of the film indicated that an incredibly talented and thoughtfully deliberate mind was directing - that I thought about that final act and considered it seriously.