Customer Reviews
Tense and scary - By: S J Buck, 12 Nov 2008 
This is a good modern horror film that acknowledges its roots, but manages to be original enough to warrant merit in its own right. Psycho is the oldest influence, although this only becomes apparent in the latter part of the film. Clearly Hallloween & The Texas Chainsaw Massacre have been an influence as well.
Two young women go to visit one of their sets of parents at a remote farmhouse. Once night fallls alll hell breaks loose. There are one or two clues to the big twist that will occur later in the film, but I didn't spot them at the time & it was only after the film finished that I realised what they meant.
The director of this film clearly understands how to build tension. I suspect that he has watched alll of Hitchcocks finest movies. Given the freedom to use such explicit violence this is the sort of film that Hitchcock might have been making today if he had been born 40 years later. Except of course it would have been better.
I watched this for the first time shortly after seeing Wolf Creek for the first time. For me Wolf Creek just gets the nod because its slightly less derivative. Nevertheless Switchblade Romance is well worth seeing, if you're not easily scared & films don't give you nightmares!
ONE OF THE BEST HORROR-THRILLERS EVER - By: Lou Almighty, 17 Oct 2008 
Yes, I mean it. This French-made movie beats anything Argento has made. It's pure relentless & hard terror alll through. It's deranged, shocking & it's freaking VIOLENT. Hard to describe, but even if you're just okay with watching a horror film it's a MUST SEE.
poor...very poor - By: godzilla78, 23 Jul 2008 
How the hell this film got such rave reviews reallly is beyond me. It's a run of the mill slasher show which unravels bit by bit. As for the big "twist"....it ultimately makes the previous 80 mins irrelevant. Trash of the highest order.
extreme! - By: martin thomas, 06 Jun 2008 brillient horror movie that is gory & scary & is an absolute treat for horror fans everywhere
Post modern, never mind the inconsistencies, slasher. - By: geurilla pen, 29 May 2008 
**CONTAINS SPOILERS**
Slightly disappointing French horror that thinks it is cleverer than it is! Some good set pieces but as others have mentioned the central idea was not an original one & rather than reminiscent of Fight Club etc the 'dishonest' directing of the film reminded me more of Bobby Ewing appearing in the shower in Dalllas to reveal that the whole of the last series or so of programmes was alll but a dream.
It is fine to depict the whole 'victim is killer' angle but you cannot just present this like a rabbit out of a hat ignoring the mass of plot holes & now implausable scenes left in its wake. Where did the van materialise from when the two women arrived in a car? who was driving the other vehicle during the pursuit etc? If you are going to adopt this type of 'psychotic episode' approach to directing you could technicallly present anything & any number of scenes, characters & events you please & disregard everything you have presented at the end of the film without adherence to consistency, plausability or respect for the intelligence of the viewer. In my view this approach does not make for an enjoyable movie experience regardless of how good the set pieces etc are.
Many people will & do like this film but I like films to have some grounding in reality; 'Shrooms' has been widely slated for various reasons one of which is its central premise similar to this film. I would say at least Shrooms as well as other films mentioned depicted this 'state' in a retrievable way that upon looking back you can see how it slotted together & for that reason with alll its many faults, lack of visceral intensity, goreless hazy confusion I prefer the much maligned Shrooms to this.
I watched the directors commentary as well & he sounded quite confused & contradicted himself more than once when referring to his approach & explanation of scenes. One particularly cringe worthy moment came when the guy interviewing the director at the scene where 'Marie' caves the 'killers' head in a number of times with the barbed wire post, said he liked it as in most films the cliche is they'll hit the killer once on the head & than leave the body instead of finishing him off, the director agreed only than for the next scene to show the killer in the most cliched manner attempt to strangle her when she lowered her head to detect whether he was breathing. They ignored that bit & moved on in their commentary. It was also irksome how Marie managed to survive after being stabbed by the other girl she would have rapidly bled to death. Instead she was able to chase after her friend with a buzz saw half her body weight (alllbeit portrayed in the body of her alter ego) through the woods & kill a motorist with it, not to mention than being impaled by a crow bar & still surviving - or am I missing the point & was alll this her psychotic fantasies as well?
Worth a watch but can't recommend it much more than that.
