Last night I finally got around to watching the new french horror film Frontier(s) or Frontiere(s) as it is called in some places. I had heard alot of good things about the film and have to say it really does live up to all the buzz if your a horror fan.
While an extreme right-wing candidate advances to the second ballot of the presidential election, a group of young armed robbers holes up in a backwoods inn. The inn is located in an old mining wasteland, and its managers are a particularly sordid lot [to wit, (neo-)Nazi cannibals].
The film itself is very much like HOSTEL and makes me wonder which movie came first. Frontiers however has alot more merit then Hostel as it is very well shot has some really creative visuals and easily some of the coolest special FX in horror in some time. Although the film is a gore fest unlike Hostel it has an intense story and a batch of creepy and believable characters to go with that story. Sure its not likely that you will encounter Cannibal Nazi’s in a country Cottage in France but the film is done well enough you can easily believe it, if even only for the 90 minutes the movie runs.
It can be quite difficult to build tension and atmosphere in a foreign film since we spend so much time reading the sub-titles you can miss the ’sub-text’ the message in the way its said, and expressed. I can say that does not happen in this movie. Its creepy, its gorey, its appropriately creepy and did I mention its gorey?
If you like carnage this film is definitely for you. . The movie pulls no punches, it has every possible way you can die right down to being thrown head first through a band saw, and yes it looks pretty darn real. The Visual FX really help to make this movie a bloody fine mess and overall a pretty darn good movie. For those in the know this was part of this years HorrorFest and for some reason at the very last minute it was yanked and released on its own. I have to say HUGE mistake. This years horrorfest was a mish mash of really crappy movies, accept for Borderland. Had they of released Frontieres as part of HorrorFest 2 I think that fans of the genre would have a new found respect for the whole event.

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