10 Overhyped Horror Movies You Wish You'd Not Watched

10. High Tension (2003)

Considered part of the New French Extremity - the movement of transgressive, absurd and frequently grotesque horror and horror-adjacent movies that came out of France in the late-'90s and noughties - High Tension puts the slasher and the psychological horror in a blender, with uneven results.

Rebranded in English-speaking territories, from Switchblade Romance to High Tension (bringing it in line with its original French title, Haute Tension), but still known by both names, the film sees student Alex (Maïwenn Le Besco) and her friend Marie (Cécile de France) travel to visit family in the country, where a psychotic truck driver (Philippe Nahon) shatter their peace for good.

While the film isn't short on some nail-biting moments and gory action, it is also not deserving of the hype that the splatter buffs afford it. 

The film chugs along conventionally for the most part, until an unfortunate, late-in-the-day twist. Spoiler alert: Marie is the truck driver, unaware of her split personality and the sudden and severe effects it can have. Aside from being one of the dumbest cliché reveals available in fiction, the whole split personality thing tears the film apart at the seams, making a whole variety of the preceding scenes logically and logistically impossible, and leaving us wishing we'd never tuned in.