It was impossible to guess in front of Furia (1999) that its young director, Alexandre Aja, was going to become one of the biggest names in horror cinema of the next century. However, the post-apocalyptic romanticism gives way to a real butchery in his second feature film, with only a few ironic touches (Felix Gray and Didier Barbelivien were never to recover). High Tension propels French genre cinema into uncharted territory, at the cutting edge of what Anglo-Saxon critics, impressed by so much barbarity, called "French Extremity". Alexandre Aja will come to present the 4K restoration of his monstrous child. Beware of splashes.