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Advantages: dark and creep
Disadvantages: too dull to be very scary

...SPOILERS! I've not seen the original so I won't be comparing this to that. Apart from the minor scare and the guy killing the 2 scientists at the start this is really boring for a very VERY long time. The travellers dog gets killed (we see nothing apart from it's body) and then not much happens. We're almost 40 mins into the film where their truck is sabotaged by the hill people (they use a stinger on it) and then lots of not much happens. The ...
...and the son-in-law finds a vehicle graveyard in a crater (and really should have sussed what was happening by then, it's totally obvious). The truck stop owner kills himself and the dad of the family is caught by the hill people and things actually finally start to happen. The son-in-law returns to the camper and the families second dog is taken (which should make them really suspicious but doesn't?). There's a major goof where one of the hill people ... Read review

Advantages: Tension, twists, horror, gory, best ever film
Disadvantages: If someone tells you the twist!

Switchblade Romance (Haute Tension) A french subtitled film, tells the story of two friends Marie and Alex, they are about to embark on a journey to stay with Alex's parents at a farm. On the way they start freaking each other out, but it doesn't become apparent until they get there that something bad really is going to happen. The film is also available in France but named Haute Tension. Lots of blood and guts in this film, not recommened for ...
...to come out of FRANCE, and if you haven't seen it you are missing out. This is for people that like TWISTS in films, because this has a twist that has made me and my mates go "what the?". Basically Marie, likes Alex. She never wants anything to come between them. But now they are stuck in the middle of nowhere in Alex's family home - but "the man in a van" goes and kills Alex's family, brother and all... Each death is gruesome, each member of the ... Read review

Advantages: A top notch Italian horror
Disadvantages: The movie will never get its full potential of viewers

At first glance Tenebrae appeared to be no more than a violent thriller, in its native Italy it was a great success. In America where it was released under the name of Unsane it was a blockbuster smash; conventional, drive in, and Grindhouse cinema audiences loved it, for week after week it was the main attraction. In the UK however the movie came out in slippers, only a few cinemas got it, and shortly after it was released in a new revolutionary ...
...prosecutions list, shortly after that Tenebrae disappeared, it had been banned. That was back in 1984, and it took until 1999 for the film to be re-r