Hold on to your butts because this film is a wild ride! This week your favorite ghouls discuss Alexandre Aja's controversial New French Extremity horror film, High Tension aka Haute Tension aka Switchblade Romance. We won't go into anymore more detail here.... just... watch it (and then listen here!).
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Thanks to Lily LeBlanc for our theme song: www.lilythecomposer.com
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Resources:
West, Alexandra. Films of the New French Extremity: Visceral Horror and National Identity. McFarland, 2016.
High Tension (2003) Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_Tension
Expressing the Mind of a Serial Killer: The Unreliable Narrator in Alexandre Aja's High Tension by Beth Kattelman
https://www.academia.edu/25830717/Expressing_the_Mind_of_a_Serial_Killer_The_Unreliable_Narrator_in_Alexandre_Ajas_High_Tension?auto=download
Fille Finale: The Final Girl in New French Extremity by Alexandra West
https://offscreen.com/view/fille-finale
The Killer in/and the Girl: Alexandre Aja’s ‘High Tension’ by Rebecca Willoughby
http://www.btchflcks.com/2015/10/the-killer-inand-the-girl-alexandre-ajas-high-tension.html#.XYkwdJNKjfY
‘High Tension’: Rethinking Female Sexuality and Subjectivity Through Violence by Laura Minor
http://www.btchflcks.com/2015/10/high-tension-rethinking-female-sexuality-and-subjectivity-through-violence.html#.XYkwdJNKjfY
Vampires, Psychics, and Ghosts: A Look at Queer Women in Horror by Sara Century
https://www.bitchmedia.org/article/vampires-psychics-and-ghosts-look-queer-women-horror
Queer Review: High Tension (2003)
http://queeringthecloset.blogspot.com/2014/05/queer-review-high-tension-2003.html
Villainizing Queerness in Alexandre Aja’s High Tension by Mary Beth McAndrews
https://www.gaylydreadful.com/blog/2019/6/15/villainizing-queerness-in-alexandre-ajas-high-tension
Take Back the Knife: Revisiting “High Tension” by Stacie Ponder
https://www.afterellen.com/movies/81011-take-back-the-knife-revisiting-high-tension
Horror Film’s Terrifyingly Harmful Use of Queer Tropes by Mary Beth McAndrews
https://muchadoaboutcinema.com/2018/07/02/horror-films-terrifyingly-harmful-use-of-queer-tropes/
28 Things We Learned from Alexandre Aja’s High Tension Commentary by Commentators: Alexandre Aja (director/co-writer), Grégory Levasseur (co-writer/art director)
https://filmschoolrejects.com/commentary-high-tension-ea807d8a0c25/
The Misuse of Dissociative Identify Disorder & Demonization of Homosexuality in High Tension (2003)
https://scriptophobic.ca/2018/07/02/the-misuse-of-dissociative-identify-disorder-demonization-of-homosexuality-in-high-tension-2003/
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