Switchblade Romance DVD > Reviews

Advantages: It's mad, I tell you, MAD!
Disadvantages: Outcome doesn't make much sense

...they should be. Horrific. Enter Switchblade Romance…. Originally released in its native France as La Haute Tension, Switchblade Romance is completely mad. That's a difficult comment to justify without giving too much of the plot away, but suffice it to say that the director is obviously a nutcase. From the very beginning, the film exhibits a particularly gruesome approach to the subject matter. Our introduction to the film's killer shows he performing ... Read review

Advantages: A genuinely scary, tense, gory and well-made horror
Disadvantages: Has a mindblowingly dreadful twist which ruins it

...UK, for some bizarre reason, Switchblade Romance). It tells the story of two friends, Marie (Cécile de France) and Alex (played by somebody just called Maiwenn!), who are on the way to stay with Alex's parents at their countryside farm. However, what starts off as just a regular evening soon takes a turn for the horrifying, as a strange old man (Philippe Nahon) turns up in the truck out of Jeepers Creepers (seriously, I think it is the same truck). ... Read review

Advantages: terrifying!!!!
Disadvantages: not one of those movies you can watch over and over!

Switchblade Romance (Haute Tension) Watching this movie feels like a throw back to the 70's and early 80's where the influx of highly bloody and violent movies coined the phrase "video nasty." You remember these films - Cannibal Holocaust, Zombie Flesh Eaters, Driller Killer, the more commonly known The Evil Dead and of course Tobe Hooper's The Texas Chainsaw Massacre. However, as time as gone on, most of the cinema growing public have been greatly ... Read review