Frontiers [2007]

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Audience Rating: Suitable for 18 years and over Binding: DVD EAN: 5055201802774 Format: PAL Label: Optimum Home Entertainment Manufacturer: Optimum Home Entertainment Number Of Items: 1 Publisher: Optimum Home Entertainment Region Code: 2 Release Date: 2008-07-07 Running Time: 104 Studio: Optimum Home Entertainment
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Spotlight customer reviews: Customer Rating: Summary: The final frontier for brutal visceral horror? Comment: Certain to be lumped in with the torture porn or Gorno as it is also known Frontiers is a truly brutal film with an indistinct political message . Now I thought the same about Hostel which made salient points about American imperialism not to mention capitalism and then they went and spoiled it all by making an unnecessary and exploitative sequel .Frontiers is, or the way I saw it , making a point about the insidious and all pervading nature of right wing politics which I personally think is an admirable thing to do . Unfortunately while working quite successfully as an exercise in extreme horror it botches the message somewhat. How does it do this ? Well the plot has a group of young thieves taking advantage of the chaos ensuing after rioting breaks out in Paris due to the possible election of an extreme right wing government. This merry band head off to the country and hole up in a remote dilapidated country house hotel . But the place is run by a bunch of delinquent murdering neo Nazi's led by the deranged patriarch and former SS officer Le Von Geisler( Jean Pierre Jorris)They also delight in a bit of torture and mutilation on the side. While the film ramps up the tension nicely and the gore scenes are done with stomach churning realism it really fails to work effectively as true horror because the victims are such an unpleasant lot. It is important for the audience to root for the victims and with the debatable exception of Yasmine ( Karina Testa) who lets not forget is still a member of violent gang of thieves and more pertinently Farid ( Chems Dahmani ) the one individual who seems to show any truly defining sense of moral character this lot are almost as bad as the nutters they run into. Nor does Frontiers do anything remotely original, running through the gamut of horror clichés- remote location with perverted gang of aberrant psycho's, one of the delinquents being vaguely decent, one of the victims running anyway only to mistakenly think one of the delinquents a potential rescuer and so on - with gleeful abandon. It is essentially a rerun of all the stuff we have seen before in films like Saw, Wrong Turn ,The Hills Have Eyes , The Texas Chainsaw Massacre etc. It is brilliantly made though with intense performances and a graphic pragmatic sense of true horror and it looks stunning on DVD. Writer /director Xavier Gens has in attempting to supplant a political message to a horror film and by putting one of his characters at a moral crossroads done an ambitious thing,. Some will view this message as clumsy and trite and that it doesn't belong in a horror film. Great horror films though , force us to face up to truths about ourselves. Frontiers isn't a great horror film but it does , with its final images tell a stark truth. We all at one point are driving into the future screaming our defiance but we all eventually come to the point where we hold our hands up in surrender. Customer Rating: Summary: HOW ALL HORROR FILMS SHOULD BE!!! Comment: On purchasing this DVD I was a little aprehensive as to how good it would be. All I can say is it is the first film in a very long time that has made me think things like "THIS IS JUST WRONG" and "OH MY GOD",at one point I thought "WHY THE HELL AM I WATCHING THIS?" the point being is that once you start you have to watch this film to the end it is that good. Hollywood take note this is how you make horror films, enough said!!!. Customer Rating: Summary: better than the hostels Comment: for a start this film started out with a little more acton than the hostel films,i.e no 40 minute character building until the killings. oh no, once they get to where they want to go the fun starts, ok it is a bit few and far between, as in gore, blood,etc.. but as the flm is quite long it keep the thrills going until the end. expect lots of blood, toe curling scenes, heads blown off, table saws etc.. yes, if you thought hostel 1 or 2 was good, you aint seen nothing yet, id say its 80% hostel,20%manhunt and 10% the descent, f,y,i manhunt is a game. it just reminds me of it in some parts. go for it if you love people getting killed!!! yay!! Customer Rating: Summary: Incredible film. Loved it. Comment: Frightfest banned it, Optimum didn't know whether to release it or not, the critics weren't keen, but one thing's for sure: We LOVE it! The makers of Switchblade Romance have done it again! Frontiers is possibly an even more powerful 'endurance test' than last year's remake of Funny Games. Ultimately, Frontiers is made for you to pause the film for a second, take a deep breath and ask yourself, 'Why am I still watching this?' The story plays out just like your average Friday night horror flick: A group of kids get into some trouble whilst rioting at the latest presidential election... soon enough, after deciding to take a run for it, they all end up staying at a creepy old hostel run by a large family of uncompromising Nazi cannibals... ...And thank God! For once! It's as good as it sounds! Beautifully shot, expertly crafted and brilliantly acted, Xavier Gens -director of the more recent Hitman- has served up for us something quite special: Frontiers is a shocking, brutal, emotionally draining and immensely powerful piece of horror cinema. It demands to be seen, and at this price it's hard to resist! (P.S- To those who are frightened of subtitles: It's French. Also: Stunning cover art!) Customer Rating: Summary: enjoyable horror but nothing outstanding Comment: This film was kinda a cross between a modern texas chainsaw massacre and hostel. The first 45 minutes of the film are really good. There's alot of action and suspense but after that the film seems to lose its way a bit. I think the problem with this film is most of the characters are killed off within the first half of the film, leaving the 2nd half of the film largely focusing on the remaining survivor and cannibal family. I'd give this film 7/10. Its worth a watch but its not outstanding or anything different to some of the other modern horror films available. More Reviews