The dumbest Nazis ever cross paths with the dumbest hustlers ever. It’s inführeriating.

French riff on a Tobe Hooper narrative but nowhere near as effective. There’s plenty of gratuitous editing/violence, and Frontier(s) attempts to put the viewer through the ringer which I get (after the almost decade worth of tame, repetitive post Scream meta horror) and it succeeds for the most part, but this thing could have been 25 minutes shorter and driven the point home way faster without all the excess viewer bludgeoning—that editing almost gave me a headache and some of those violent for the sake of violence scenes just get boring... totally missing the mark as far as the effectively disturbing violence art form goes.

It’s ok, there’s better debauchery out there, especially from this era.

So unoriginal it should have been titled "Cliched"

Nothing compelling about this film whatsoever! Not even the Extreme Violence, Gore and Buckets of Blood could save this film from my ire!

Karina Testa gave a excellent performance and was the only bright spot in the film!

Watched this many years ago and remember feeling meh about it but wanted to check it out again, occasionally I do change my
Mind ... but nope, its a re hashing of so many set ups we’ve seen before... it’s trying to be a non stop adrenaline rush from the get go but it’s sacrificed any character development for this, so we have a bunch of people who are mostly assholes running from more assholes.. it looks terrible and again I just think it’s full of tropes .. the weird family living on the edge of town who murders people ...pass ... not unless your the remake of the hills have eyes which is this kind of story done right .. frontier is incredibly gory and if you want some mindless gore reminiscent of hills have eyes and Texas chainsaw then sure go for it..

This was okay, but Martyrs still reigns supreme of the New French Extreme.

never expected to be bored out of my mind by a New French Extremity film, and yet here we are.

nothing shocking or truly transgressive to be found here. am I supposed to take this seriously just because it features a laughably conceived family of neo-Nazi degenerates and a couple of half-assed radio broadcasts about the rise of the far right?

also: the shaky-cam is absolutely nauseating.

“La nouvelle vague”
Ah, the French language, quelle beauté.
The language of love.
And more recently, also the language of new-style horror.

After seeing other entries in this genre (Inside and Martyrs), now it was the turn of Frontiers, which happens to be the weakest link.
Doubtful acting, way too Red Bull-ish camera style swaying and a story that is, bah let’s say, subordinate to the torture and gore. Further I will not start about the idiotic character decisions.

If you’re into some bloodfest, heavy shotguns and squealing pigs, Frontiers is a watchable possibility, but have your quality bar low enough.

19

What a buzzkill.

My kids loved this

"Daddy can we see the head explode again"

"This is my second favourite film after Martyrs"

"What does human flesh taste like"

I thought it was alright.

p.s I don't have kids.

WOW! This French horror film was incredibly difficult to find with subtitles included here in Australia. I finally came across it online and it was well worth the effort in tracking it down. Frenetically paced and edited, well acted and brutal as hell, it reminded me a lot of Hostel in tone, but is a far better film overall. WATCH IT!!

Hooptober 3.0 Film #10
TASK #2: Six countries!

COUNTRY #3: France

Although it's well-shot and it delivers on impressive gore and solid atmosphere, Frontier(s) is let down by director Xavier Gens' poorly structured script that's laden with characters who constantly make nonsensical decisions.

One of the most brutal, awesome films ever made.

2021 rewatch: done

Tiene una de las muertes más violentas y sangrientas que vi en el cine. La trama avanza muuuuy lentamente y tiene situaciones realmente incoherentes y bizarras. Entretiene dentro de todo, y para ver un rato de sangre y acción está buena. De este estilo recomiendo mucho más Martyrs y Haute Tension, ambas francesas también.

House of 1000 Corpses meets Martyrs meets Hills Have Eyes.

Ein absolut guter grausamer Film

French rebels flee the city and take refuge in a motel on the country side. They didn’t know that the owners are neo nazi cannibals. The French answer to House of 1000 Corpses. Don’t watch if you’re easily disturbed.

This is classed as belonging to the New French Extremity, a series of French films that push boundaries predominantly in terms of horrific content. It's the case here that there are plenty of gory scenes as a group of criminals find themselves in the grasp of Neo Nazis, but the violence is largely unimpressive because there's no opportunity to care for the supremely irritating characters. There are a couple of moments where there's the promise of meaning but this is far too concerned with aping films from The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2 to Robocop, making for an exploitative, cheap-looking, bargain basement shadow of the best of this sub-genre.

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*head explosions*
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*unnecessary gore*
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desnecessário

The best remake of Texas Chainsaw Massacre is French, actually.

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