"High Tension" Screening Report

The 2005 “slasher/horror” film, High Tension, is essentially true to its genre classification namely in the film’s development of perspectives. More specifically, High Tension, reveals the murderer’sviewpoint however the film ceases to allow you to fully identify with lethal villain protagonist by abstaining from any profile or frontal shots wand concealing the killer’s face as a secret for theentirety of the film. Additionally High Tension presents a superior juxtaposition presented just as the murderer enters the plot that contrasts the mundane typical familial situation with a quickinvasion of a horrific bad dream. As the film develops further towards the conclusion, it notably becomes progressively more and more horrific. This increasing trend of horror is expertly developed in thefilm via the increasing specificity and profundity of violent acts on receiving characters as well as through characters’ building efforts of bypassing the pursuing murderer who is hot on theirtails.
The film’s technique of concealing the murderer’s identity is executed in the film in a variety of ways and this “secret identity” ultimately contributes to High Tension’s “High Tension” effectoverall. Firstly, the film makes use of a variety of camera angles and lighting techniques in order to portrait and arbitrarily profile the killer’s presence in various scenes. Furthermore, the filmabstains from any shot/reverse-shot panning techniques, which would give the audience a direct panning of frontal facial images of its characters, specifically never using such techniques in correlationwith the murderer. The film instead employs many long shots to maintain the arbitrary unidentified mysteriousness associated with its protagonist and villain, the murderer. Dark scenes and bleaklighting compose the majority of the films shadowy frames and scenes. Some jump cuts are used during the chase scene in which the murderer chases his victim into a women’s restroom. The quick jump cuts...