High Tension

A good horror movie has to keep me at the edge of my seat, if it does, I can forgive pretty much everything else be it bad acting or a bad ending or no gore, nudity or adult language. These last 3 points are very important for me, because if the movie's story is not that good, I can still end up liking it if it has any of those. So what happened with Haute Tension? I hate it. Why? Yes, it has all of those 3 points I want, but I wasn't at the edge of my seat, instead I was fucking angry with Lions Gate or whoever the fuck dubbed the movie. Yes, dubbed, and not even totally dubbed, it's half English and half French, with only the two main actresses being dubbed (by them I guess since the English had a French accent) but only in scenes when they are talking to each other or talking by themselves. Really painful to watch.

But ok, I understand that the language is not the director's fault, and so I did try to focus on the story, without positive results.
Marie and Alex go to study to Alex's parents' farm in the middle of nowhere, somewhere in France. They get there in the middle of the night, Alex's father and little brother are waiting for them and they go to bed after welcoming them to the farm. Alex's mom is sleeping. Now out of nowhere, Marie watches Alex taking a shower (brief nudity, kind of ugly girl though) and then goes to her room and starts masturbating. She's stopped by a truck that stops in front of the farm and starts knocking the door, waking everybody up, and the action starts. The big fat trucker kills the father, kills the mother, kills the kid and then beats Alex and ties her up with chains and puts her in his truck. Marie is a guest, so the guy doesn't know she's there, and so she manages to hide in the truck just before the trucker leaves the farm so she can try and help Alex.
What happens next are stupid situations and then the ending which is so stupid and cliched in horror movies lately that it made the whole movie suck even more. And what's worse, the ending doesn't even work, and makes the whole more not make any sense at all.

Cecile de France is perfect as Marie. Scared, frightened and a character with some very good ideas at times but terrible bad ideas at other times, like trying call the police when you're being attacked while in a farm in the middle of nowhere. Like there was a chance that police would've get there in time.
Alex is played by an actress credited only as Maiwenn and she's terrible. Horrible acting, and a pretty ugly girl too. The trucker is the classic fat guy that looks scary. Nothing demanding of that role.

That the movie was dubbed was a big problem for me, and made the movie sound really bad, specially at one time at the beginning when they talk about some "redneck neighbors", and we're in France!. Also the music, which started good with an Italian song at the beginning, but then it transformed into a rock 'n roll all English soundtrack that I don't think is part of the original movie.
My other problem, the ending, it's a bigger one, because I think that even if the movie would've been all in French with subtitles, those final 15 minutes still make the movie suck.
Cecile was good, the kills and gore were great and extreme, but the movie is only getting all this hype just because it's French. If it were American, it would've been between the worse horror movies of the year, still better than Boogeyman though, but that's it.