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** There's also the huge amount of [[spoiler:ContrivedCoincidence that inexplicably allow the supposed killer to kill everybody in his way except for Marie, who is ''somehow'' always just one step ahead of him, at times even literally hiding behind his back, yet is unable to stop the killer from killing anybody, getting to witness every murder that he commits. Though not killing her, the killer gradually even starts to play XanatosSpeedChess with Marie, tricking her into taking a gun that he previously emptied so as to give her false sense of security when she next encounters him. Truly, the killer seems to be reading Marie’s mind at times – it’s almost like they're [[TheKillerInMe the same person]].]]
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* ButchLesbian: Downplayed with [[spoiler:Marie. Her short hair and...male split personality allude to her sexuality before her PsychoLesbian nature is revealed.]]
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* GenderNonconformingEqualsGay: [[spoiler:Marie has BoyishShortHair and is teased by her best friend, Alex, for apparently being "shy" with the opposite sex, or "scared" of them. The TomatoInTheMirror ending reveals that Marie is a PsychoLesbian who is romantically and sexually obsessed with Alex.]]
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* WhamShot: [[spoiler:Of the police watching the CCTV and seeing Marie kill the security guard.]]
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** Marie says "the others were alone. There are two of us." [[spoiler:This goes both ways. She could be referring to the rest of Alex's family, but there's a moment of revelation that she means both that there are ''two'' of her, and that she knows the killer had other victims.]]
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* NotSoDifferentRemark: The killer seems to be implying this to Marie when he says of Alexia "She turns you on, doesn't she? She turns me on too..." [[spoiler: Of course the killer ''is'' Marie, so...]]
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* NotSoDifferentRemark: The killer seems to be implying this to Marie when he says of Alexia Alex "She turns you on, doesn't she? She turns me on too..." [[spoiler: Of course the killer ''is'' Marie, so...]]]]
* NotTheFirstVictim: The killer is revealed to have had multiple other victims before Alex and her family, keeping cut-up pictures of them in his truck. [[spoiler:Or, well, Marie does. A RewatchBonus reveals that Marie tells Alex this before the apparent killer does, in a moment of {{foreshadowing}} the twist.]]
* NotTheFirstVictim: The killer is revealed to have had multiple other victims before Alex and her family, keeping cut-up pictures of them in his truck. [[spoiler:Or, well, Marie does. A RewatchBonus reveals that Marie tells Alex this before the apparent killer does, in a moment of {{foreshadowing}} the twist.]]
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* HelplessWindowDeath: Marie and Alex both watch helplessly through the window as Alex's little brother is killed. [[spoiler:Though it's revealed to be ultimately just Alex, since Marie killed him.]]
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* HillbillyHorrors: Marie talks about country people being backwards and perverted in the beginning. The killer is a man with a truck dressed in archetypal heavy-duty farm clothes. [[spoiler:Subverted in his case, as he's Marie herself.]]
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* MasturbationMeansSexualFrustration: Marie masturbates after seeing her BestFriend Alex [[ShowerScene showering]] through the bathroom window earlier that night. Since she's listening to her Walkman during the act, this prevents her from hearing the killer get into the house until the murders are well underway.
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* MasturbationMeansSexualFrustration: Marie masturbates after seeing her BestFriend Alex [[ShowerScene showering]] through the bathroom window earlier that night. Since she's listening to her Walkman during the act, this prevents her from hearing the killer get into the house until the murders are well underway. [[spoiler:And that implication is how the killer personality gets in.]]
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* TomatoInTheMirror: [[spoiler:Marie is the killer who she perceives to be attacking and killing Alex's whole family.]]
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Marie (de France) and Alex (Besco), are two college students and longtime friends on their way to stay at Alex's parent's house for the weekend so they can study in peace. In the night, however, an insane truck driving SerialKiller (Nahon) comes to the house and murders Alex's family. He then abducts Alex herself. Marie goes after her with the intention of rescuing her, [[TwistEnding but it turns out the killer is not who he seems]]...
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Marie (de France) and Alex (Besco), (Maïwenn) are two college students and longtime friends on their way to stay at Alex's parent's house for the weekend so they can study in peace. In the night, however, an insane truck driving SerialKiller (Nahon) comes to the house and murders Alex's family. He then abducts Alex herself. Marie goes after her with the intention of rescuing her, [[TwistEnding but it turns out the killer is not who he seems]]...
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''Haute Tension'' (''High Tension'', also known as ''Switchblade Romance'' in the UK) is a 2003 French horror film directed by Creator/AlexandreAja and staring Cécile de France, Creator/{{Maiwenn}} and Philippe Nahon.
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''Haute Tension'' (''High Tension'', also known as ''Switchblade Romance'' in the UK) is a 2003 French horror film {{slasher film}} directed by Creator/AlexandreAja and staring Cécile de France, Creator/{{Maiwenn}} and Philippe Nahon.
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''Haute Tension'' (''High Tension'', also known as ''Switchblade Romance'' in the UK) is a 2003 French horror film directed by Creator/AlexandreAja and staring Cécile de France, Creator/{{Maiwenn}} Le Besco and Philippe Nahon.
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* AxCrazy: The killer is ruthless in his butcheries of everyone he comes across. [[spoiler:"He" becomes even worse after it's revealed that him and Marie are the same person.]]
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* AxCrazy: The killer is ruthless in his butcheries of everyone he comes across. [[spoiler:"He" becomes even worse after it's revealed that him he and Marie are the same person.]]
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* {{Foreshadowing}}: There is a lot of this, thought most is nigh impossible to register without knowing the PlotTwist... and some even then.
* GirlWithPsychoWeapon: During the film Marie is depicted wielding both a wooden club wrapped in barbed wire (as shown above) and a circular saw.
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* {{Foreshadowing}}: There is a lot of this, thought though most is are nigh impossible to register without knowing the PlotTwist... and some even then.
* GirlWithPsychoWeapon: During thefilm film, Marie is depicted wielding both a wooden club wrapped in barbed wire (as shown above) and a circular saw.
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* GoryDiscretionShot: While Alex's parents are shown to be brutally killed on screen, the audience only sees a glimpse of gunfire when the killer shoots Alex's kid brother in a corn field.
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* GoryDiscretionShot: While Alex's parents are shown to be brutally killed on screen, the audience only sees a glimpse of gunfire when the killer shoots Alex's kid brother in a corn field.cornfield.
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''Haute Tension'' (''High Tension'', also known as ''Switchblade Romance'' in the UK) is a 2003 French horror film directed by Creator/AlexandreAja and staring Cécile de France, Maïwenn Creator/{{Maiwenn}} Le Besco and Philippe Nahon.
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* ADateWithRosiePalms: Marie, after seeing Alex showering through the bathroom window earlier that night. Since she's listening to her walk-man during the act, this prevents her from hearing the killer get into the house until the murders are well under way.
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* MasturbationMeansSexualFrustration: Marie masturbates after seeing her BestFriend Alex [[ShowerScene showering]] through the bathroom window earlier that night. Since she's listening to her Walkman during the act, this prevents her from hearing the killer get into the house until the murders are well underway.
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Critical reception was mixed to negative, with criticism generally being directed at the twist ending which, as much as it might make Creator/MNightShyamalan proud, also generates a gaping PlotHole.
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* NoNameGiven: The killer's name is never revealed. [[Spoiler: This makes sense, as being Marie's split personality, of course he wouldn't have a name at all.]]
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* NoNameGiven: The killer's name is never revealed. [[Spoiler: This [[spoiler:This makes sense, as being Marie's split personality, of course he wouldn't have a name at all.]]
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* NoNameGiven: The killer's name is never revealed. [[Spoiler: This makes sense, as being Marie's split personality, of course he wouldn't have a name at all.]]
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* FinalGirl: Subverted, in that the protagonist [[spoiler: is ''also'' the killer, leaving both Alex and the killer alive in the end.]]
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* FinalGirl: Subverted, in that the protagonist [[spoiler: is ''also'' the killer, leaving both Alex and the killer alive in the end. That leaves Alex, the only survivor of the massacre, as the real Final Girl of the movie.]]
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* NotSoDifferent: The killer seems to be implying this to Marie when he says of Alexia "She turns you on, doesn't she? She turns me on too..." [[spoiler: Of course the killer ''is'' Marie, so...]]
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* NotSoDifferent: NotSoDifferentRemark: The killer seems to be implying this to Marie when he says of Alexia "She turns you on, doesn't she? She turns me on too..." [[spoiler: Of course the killer ''is'' Marie, so...]]
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* BittersweetEnding / DownerEnding: [[spoiler:Alex survives, and Marie is locked away. Unfortunately, Alex's entire family has been slaughtered by Marie, with Alex being unable to recover from that traumatic experience, and Marie gets off rather easy, despite being imprisoned.]]
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* BittersweetEnding / DownerEnding: BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler:Alex survives, and Marie is locked away. Unfortunately, Alex's entire family has been slaughtered by Marie, with Alex being unable to recover from that traumatic experience, and Marie gets off rather easy, despite being imprisoned.]]
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* {{Dubtitle}}: Lion's Gate's unrated DVD is this; made obvious by some ''LullDestruction'' lines from the dub showing up when there is no dialogue in the French version.
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* {{Dubtitle}}: Lion's Gate's unrated DVD is this; made obvious by some ''LullDestruction'' lines from the dub showing up [[FillingTheSilence when there is no dialogue in the French version.version]].
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* DoubleMeaningTitle: "High Tension" can refer to "high tension wire" seen in the film as well as the highly tense events that take place.
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* BittersweetEnding / DownerEnding: [[spoiler:Alex survives, and Marie is locked away. Unfortunately, Alex's entire family has been slaughtered by Marie, with Alex being unable to recover from that traumatic experience, and Mary gets off rather easy, despite being imprisoned.]]
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* BittersweetEnding / DownerEnding: [[spoiler:Alex survives, and Marie is locked away. Unfortunately, Alex's entire family has been slaughtered by Marie, with Alex being unable to recover from that traumatic experience, and Mary Marie gets off rather easy, despite being imprisoned.]]
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*BoundAndGagged: Poor Alex is in this state for most of the film, shackled by chains and gagged with a device secured with ''a lock''.
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* BittersweetEnding / DownerEnding: [[spoiler:Alex survives, and Marie is locked away. Unfortunately, Alex's entire family has been slaughtered by Marie, with Alex being unable to recover from that traumatic experience, and Alex Mary gets off rather easy, despite being imprisoned.]]
