#AJA DE

[ryllen]

"Don't u know what u're asking me with these?

'Abandon the sea, and stay on land'"

"Are you sure you know~ what u're getting into, Trey-san?"

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[beeturtlle]

enid deserves going feral more often i think

[esqueletosgays]

HAUTE TENSION / HIGH TENSION (2003)

Director: Alexandre Aja Cinematography: Maxime Alexandre

[dalek06]

quería dibujar a Aja y salió esto 🤹‍♂️

[pondsphuwin]

31 FILMS FOR OCTOBER: 4. High Tension (2003) dir. Alexandre Aja

[les-larmes-d-eros]

Tragic Love / Back Story, par Wednesday Aja

[brokehorrorfan]

Razors in the Night has released a High Tension shirt for $25. Pre-orders are up through Friday, January 12, and will ship 3-4 weeks later.

[adamwatchesmovies]

Maniac (2012)

2012’s Maniac is a slasher film with a lot to unpack. It’s not a movie you would ever call “fun” but that’s the point. Violent and disturbing, it's not for sensitive viewers and not the kind of picture you easily forget.

Schizophrenic Frank Zito (Elijah Wood) restores mannequins for a living. At night, he prowls the streets, latching onto women who remind him of his now-dead prostitute mother (America Olivo). After violent murdering and scalping them, Frank returns home and attaches his victim's hair to the many mannequins in his room.

The choice to shoot entirely from Frank’s point of view gets you thinking. Many slasher films have been accused of sympathizing with the killer rather than their victims; allowing the audience to see their violent crimes - crimes that often have sexual connotations - and relishing in the carnage. Often, this type of camerawork seems purely practical; it's a way to hide the killer’s identity (the original Friday the 13th for example) but it's still an unnerving choice because we switch to this point of view only when the killer is about to strike. These horror movies are shot normally, until we get to the violence. In 2012’s Maniac, there is no mystery. We know exactly who the killer is. We even know who the victims will be because we see everything Frank sees. Maniac is frightening because we never switch angles. We’re trapped in this viewpoint, unable to see anything except his violent, deranged acts.

The brutality on display is likely to be excessive for many viewers. Detractors would call the film misogynist - nearly every woman we meet is terrorized - but I’d disagree. Frank is certainly a man with severe psychological issues. His mother was an awful person who inadvertently created a monster, but nothing in the film tells us that the women he murders deserve their fate. Many of them are simply in the wrong place at the wrong time. Some antagonize Frank. Others reach out and attempt to befriend him. What happens to these women has nothing to do with their behavior and everything to do with our protagonist.

You’d think that experiencing these events from inside Frank’s shoes would endear you to him in a way, but director Franck Khalfoun manages to avoid making him sympathetic. We explore his character plenty. There is a plot but most of the running time is spent with Frank and the aftermath of his actions. Despite this, he never feels anything other than sad and pathetic. I don’t mean sad in the sense that you want to hug him; this man is profoundly unhappy, completely lacking in self-control, totally delusional and an absolute menace. It’s hard to imagine anyone relating to him beyond the fact that he’s a human being. He may have experienced trauma but even his past doesn’t excuse this level of unhinged madness.

I was going to write down that the more I think about Maniac, the more I like it… but “like” is the wrong word. I’d say I admire it for the way that it doesn’t back down. There is no attempt to make gore and violence something palatable. The way it manages to put us in a different headspace than we’ve ever seen without making us empathize with this monster is admirable. You might not like it, but that doesn’t make Maniac a bad film. (On DVD, October 24, 2021)

[pupuseriazag]

Hoy fue el bazartica de la u y me compre cositas del artist alley hehehehehe (+ mi tableta con mas stickers de amigas de la u)

[starf4wn]

FELIH BIRDAH @vazaez

(un poquito tarde pero lo q importa es la intencion)

[horror-nostalgia]

High Tension (2003)

Directed by Alexandre Aja

[drewbadger68]

Haute Tension. 2003.

[man-kills-everything]

The Lucky Ones Die First

The Hills Have Eyes (2006) Dir: Alexandre Aja

[dormiloncito]

MAAAAN A VOS TAMPOCO TE DEJARON VER LOS SIMPSONS JWSJWJSKSJSUD

lit creci toda mi vida evitando todo lo que tubiera que ver con los simpsons porque mis papas me dijeron que antes les gustaba pero que se ofendieron cuando bart no se persino bien y que "ahi se dieron cuenta lo irrespetuosa" que era la serie 💀

SOCORRO 😭😭 a veces así son los papás, quien les entiende

[skenpiel]

ok herre gud. för att jag vill veta om den där jävla matbjudningsgrejen faktiskt är en sak, snälla pls om du är svensk reblogga och berätta om du gör det/har varit med om det och var du är ifrån. jag såg nån säga att det måste vara en södergrej vilket jag helt enkelt måste tro på för jag är från stockholm och jag kan inte ens FÖRESTÄLLA mig nåt mer vidrigt att göra mot en gäst (speciellt om det är ett BARN, AHH). jag tror helt enkelt antingen att ni alla ljuger och bygger upp nån sorts bild av att alla i sverige är demoner för skojs skull eller att ni har haft oturen att växa upp i samma kvarter som typ. de ondaste mest elaka människorna på jorden. i alla fall, om du är svensk SNÄLLA reblogga och säg var du är ifrån och om du tycker att det är normalt att en familj inte skulle bjuda på middag/mat/snacks åt en gäst. augh

(hi non swedish ppl please reblog this dont worry about what it says its not important i just REALLY need to conduct further studies on this shit)