The latest horror film to come from France, Alexandre Aja‘s ’70s-inspired slash-fest, High Tension (or Haute Tension, depending on if you speak French or not) was clearly born from grisly, though esteemed, influences. You’ll see Halloween, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Last House on the Left, and even Duel in this suspenseful blood feast. And for those of us who appreciate such things, you’ll really feel the grindhouse exploitation factor more so than in many U.S. Chainsaw Massacre knock-offs. High Tension is incredibly gory, disturbing, and at times, sickly scary. And to place it firmly in the tradition of 70s drive-in fare, it’s dubbed (and subbed on the DVD).
Day: October 13, 2006
First Christmas-related story of the season
It gets earlier every year. We at SeriouslyGuys know we’re still weeks away from Halloween, and acknowledge that everyone hates it when the holiday season gets kicked off early by retailers.
That’s why we’re here to hit them with a pre-emptive strike: Granny and her terrorist fruitcakes in the mail.
To be fair, mass mailings of fruitcake can be considered a terrorist act. No one likes that stuff anyway.
YOU’VE GOTTA FIGHT!
FOR YOUR RIGHT! TO GO TOPPPPPP-LESS!
That means that tons of websites across the internet are full of political activists. And some of those websites are full of really political activists. It makes perfect sense now.
The war on terror becomes the international war on drugs
Canada, watch out! Those aren’t giant marijuana plants, those are actually triffids! At least, they will be once you burn them. Go ahead. Try it out.
Actually, “Canada versus the Giant Weed Plants” makes an awesome Sci-Fi Channel movie title. Hey, it can’t be any worse than “Boa vs. Python.”
Big, black, and beautiful
I’m just talking about ridiculously oversized jeans. It almost makes one wonder MC Hammer might have a career in thievery in front of him.
By the way, does anyone know how to properly pronounce the Riverdale police detective’s last name?
Fun place to live
Think your city is fun? You might want to try moving to New Delhi, where monkeys harass locals constantly. The monkeys have gotten so bad, the Indian Supreme Court has ordered for 300 monkeys to be caught in the city and relocated elsewhere.
The war on animals continues, even if India is coddling them.