Saturday, June 11, 2005

High Tension

Hey, I get to play cutting-edge cognoscenti and sniff that I saw the original untrimmed, undubbed version of this a year ago. Then again this film is completely worthless so maybe I should have just kept that to myself. Nearly all of it is a mindlessly routine, by-the-books slasher film with zero tension high or otherwise which is bad enough. But then it ends with such an unbelievably ridiculous twist ending that it shows nothing but contempt for the viewer. The problem isn't just how much a cheat the ending is but that sections of the film can't be made to fit it. Still, lots of horror film fans like it for reasons that I can't fathom, despite having read numerous postings trying to explain why.