After seeing Haute Tension in theatres, I was convinced that this guy was the new saving grace for the horror genre. Then.. remake, remake, remake so very, very, very, disappointing.

high tension. amazing.the hills have eyes brilliant. mirrors. crappy. the only good thing about mirrors was the jaw rip scene other then that hes pussin out.

In my opinion, Alexandre Aja has redefined the horror movies. He's this generations Alfred Hitchcock. Always keeping you on your feet, and always shocking you. His nameAlexandre even fits his genre of you look at it right.

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Actually it was planned the entire time. Aja said so himself on the commentary.

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What plot hol5b4es? She made the story up.

Great gore, but the story was stupid and full of plotholes. I injoyed it till the horrible "twist", Then I hated it.

How did Haute Tension suck?

Haute tension and Mirrors both sucked, but I did like the remake of hills.

Granted Alex Aja may not be a Spielberg or a Stanley Kubrick, Ridley/Tony Scott or Peter Jackson.
But Aja is a horror fan.He knows what he wants.And he has great ways of expressing it.He's the best of both worlds.You have over-the-top gore and you have suspense what more can you ask more.
I could ask of more people that get into his Harrowing Horror.I just hope he doesn't make any other film outside of the horror genre.

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I head
Frontier(s)
had these deformed people/children in it that are kind of like the crawlers in
The Descent
. Is that so, and if so, how long are they in the movie? Do they attack anyone or escape at the end?
I thought Cecile De France did a great job in
High Tension
(she was so sympathetic that that's one of the reasons I didn't like the ending), so yeah, if you say this other girl's performance is just as good, I'll check it out.

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Yeah, I like Aja's work, too. I wouldn't say he's my favorite new horror filmmakerhis work has a tendency to be
very
visually overwhelming. But in all fairness, even though I didn't like the twist ending,
High Tension
is easily one of the scariest, most disturbing, and most tense films I've seen. Ever.
(And BTW, it's still better than the Dean Koontz novel "Intensity", the plot of which it resembles a good deal. Can't say if the
Intensity
miniseries is better than the novel, though.)
The thing I have noticed about Aja's work (both
High Tension
and
Hills Have Eyes
remake) is that it is rather like having a huge French meal with multiple courses thrown at you. Of course it's all incredibly delicious, but you're getting splattered with food and it's a little overwhelming. Visually, thematically, the level of the blood and gore, the events in the story, the situations the characters get intoit's all played to an extreme. Nothing wrong with that; sometimes I'm up for it and sometimes I'm not.
I've seen the trailer for
Frontier(s)
, another French horror, and it looks to be very Aja-esque. Will try to see that as soon as it comes out on DVD.

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this is funny because i literally came to this page to post a topic about the exact same thing. This man makes no-holds-barred, white knuckle terror. And in an age of
One Missed Call
,
Shutter
and the popular
Creepy Asian Girl Crawls out of Technology and Kills you
; Aja is just freaking god.

That was more the 80s. Well except HellRaiser and Child's Play, which had most or all their sequels in the 90s. Elm St. also had 2 sequels in the 90s
Jason Goes to Hell was released in the 90s the other sequels the 80s. Halloween had 2 sequels in the 90s.
It was a bit of a slump though. The more Iconic horror filmmakers started losing their edge, Italian horror with the exception of Argento was all, but dead.
I do think this decade has gotten a lot better, but there were some good flicks in the 90s. But it was more weak than strong
FULCI LIVES!

The 90's was just filled with the sequels of "Friday the 13th" "Halloween" "Hellraiser" Child's Play" "A Nightmare on Elm Street". Probably the only good horror movie to come out of the 90's was "The Blair Witch Project", and maybe "Scream" if you can count that.

There was a slump in the 90s, but it was hardly dead.
FULCI LIVES!

"Bringing horror back? Where did it ever go?"
Horror pretty much died after the 80's. Just until a couple years ago did it somewhat come back with thanks to people like Aja, Neil Marshall, and James Wan.

Bringing horror back? Where did it ever go?
I like Aja, but he's all about remakes and I would like to see him be more original instead of being Hollywood's Yes Man.
The phone is dead. Do you hear that, Vitus? Even the phone is dead.

I hope to one day be able to work with Alexandre Aja and Gregory Levasseur.I'm in film school and leaning torwards Horror.
I didn't care that P2 made only 4 million dollars.Aja worked on it.That should be enough to spark ones interest.

I agree wholeheartedly. Seeing that I never got to grow up with masters such as John Carpenter, Lucio Fulci, Dario Argento, and George A. Romero, I'm happy to see to grow up with a future master, which is Aja.