Haute Tension (Study 0)
Atmosphere is the name of it all in horror; you can have the greatest script and greatest actors, but with no atmosphere, you got nothing. Haute Tension (High Tension) does it with violence and edged tone. Don't miss the tracking shot behind the swing--an obvious homage to The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974).
Horror Van: A French Citroen H-Van from the 1960s.
A new way to decapitate: Stick the head through the stairway rails, grab a dresser, and push the dresser into the temple of the victim--this will take the head clean off.
What's great about Aja's manipulation of the stalker genre is he takes the herione archetype of horror and joins it with the killer. Has the archetype been used to the point of amalgamation? Have the women of horror become as savage as the killers from whom they run.?
Horror Van: A French Citroen H-Van from the 1960s.
A new way to decapitate: Stick the head through the stairway rails, grab a dresser, and push the dresser into the temple of the victim--this will take the head clean off.
What's great about Aja's manipulation of the stalker genre is he takes the herione archetype of horror and joins it with the killer. Has the archetype been used to the point of amalgamation? Have the women of horror become as savage as the killers from whom they run.?
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