Frontier(s)

As a hardcore horror fan, i am always amused and surprised by the Japanese horror genre. No doubt some movies are good, in fact they are very good. But somewhere down the line i always felt that they are highly overrated and more talked about than French horror flicks. The Orphanage, Martyrs, Inside, and now Frontiers... French cinema is delivering what horror fans have always wanted. GORE, GORE and more GORE. Coming back to Frontiers... Yeah its a flawed movie, common even The Shawshank Redemption is flawed but who cares, its still the number 1 in IMDb all time list. Watching frontiers is like getting a punch in your stomach after fasting for a whole day. Its relentlessly real. But yeah it also has some serious loopholes. Well, i am a firm believer in entertainment. If a movie entertains me, no matter how flawed it is or how unreal it is.. I will still love it. And trust me Frontiers have loads of it. I'll go for 7 out of 10.

This has to be one of the best horror movies I have ever seen, great acting and great gore! The plot is fantastic and the actors really look the part, the lead actress really does a fantastic job and really appears to be completely out of her mind with terror. I loved this movie and highly recommend it. To sum it up: great plot great acting great location great cinematography. Be sure to check out the other French film lls (them) 2006 it is a great one too. There are some nice twists to this film and some of the scenes are very graphic.

You know, I don't blame the lead actress for her wide-eyed, over acting, over screaming performance. It's likely that that's what the director wanted, and boy, did she deliver the hamminess in spades! When she was finished screaming, she screamed some more. And when she was finished doing that, she screamed some more. Then, just when you though she'd ran out of screams, she screams some more. I did like the frantic editing work. I do appreciate the labor that went into it. I also thought the story was interesting - a Nazi cannibal movie. Was that the first? Anyway, Nazis or not, it was almost a note for note duplicate of similar inbred hillbilly horror flicks. At least this one wasn't afraid to deliver the gore. Now, if they could've just done away with that ridiculous hamminess...

Frontiers is so bizarre that it's almost great. Riots are breaking out in Paris and when four robbers hit the countryside, they end up in papa Nazi's little slaughterhouse. I'm sure there are political tones I was meant to pick up - but it was too hard to see through the gore and shaky acting.

The filming process and the cooking process are like brothers. Like twin brothers. I love to find ingredients in other films, because every director and every cook always find inspiration in another film or dish. We put in the pot: -300 g of High Tension -150 g of Wrong Turn -200 ml of The Hills Have Eyes -A pinch of Martyrs -100 g of The Devil's Rejects (seasoned with The House of 1000 corpses) -A pinch of The Descent -300 ml of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre -A pinch of Inglorious Bastards -A little touch of The Midnight Meat Train -The final detail: a little bit of La Haine and some bloodbath from Carrie. and we have...oh wait for it, wait for it... Mmm...delicious! A tasty french dish. It could taste better, though. Frontiere(s)!