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Fronti�re(s) (Frontier(s)) (2007)

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Average Rating: 5.4/10
Reviews Counted: 20
Fresh: 11 | Rotten: 9

Perhaps slapdash with its aspirations toward message-making, this ultra-gory horror flick nonetheless delivers the bloody goods.

Average Rating: 3.6/10
Critic Reviews: 5
Fresh: 1 | Rotten: 4

Perhaps slapdash with its aspirations toward message-making, this ultra-gory horror flick nonetheless delivers the bloody goods.

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The banlieues of Paris are burning, and as a young girl from the slums attempts to elude police by hiding out at a sprawling inn near the Luxembourg border she becomes locked in a vicious battle for survival against a group of Neo-Nazi fanatics intent on using her to start a new Aryan brotherhood. As the votes cast in the latest election are tallied, it quickly becomes apparent that an extreme right-wing party has been elected into power by a wide margin. In the aftermath of the announcement,

NC-17, 1 hr. 48 min.

Mystery & Suspense, Horror

Directed By: Xavier Gens

Written By: Xavier Gens

In Theaters: Nov 9, 2007 Wide

On DVD: May 13, 2008

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Critic Reviews for Fronti�re(s) (Frontier(s))

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The real surprise of Frontier(s) is that this creepy, bloody contemporary gross-out also has some ideas, visual and otherwise, wedged among its sanguineous drips.

May 9, 2008 Comment (1)

Manohla Dargis

New York Times

Top Critic

It's as relentless as it is hateful, hammily directed and derivative of the dreariest slop in contemporary American horror cinema.

May 8, 2008 Full Review Source: Village Voice

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Jim Ridley

Village Voice

Top Critic

Can a movie be an adrenalin-fueled, blood-gushing thrill ride and still be as boring as dirt? Apparently.

September 19, 2007 Full Review Source: Variety

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John Anderson

Variety

Top Critic

Despite all its primal brutality, Frontier(s) is a deep, intelligent and very political movie.

June 17, 2008 Full Review Source: ESplatter

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Lucius Gore

ESplatter

Unfortunately, Lions Gate released this film with no supplemental materials whatsoever.

May 22, 2008 Full Review Source: DVD Review

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Felix Gonzalez Jr.

DVD Review

As a political allegory, it has no substance. As a genre piece, it is derivative, but it takes from the best and brings it together reasonably well.

May 22, 2008 Full Review Source: DVD Review

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Felix Gonzalez Jr.

DVD Review

Frontier(s) still finds a way to mine the past while staying rooted in the present. It may seem recognizable, but it's a well made and effective awareness

May 16, 2008 Full Review Source: PopMatters

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Bill Gibron

PopMatters

Nasty, brutish but--pace Thomas Hobbes--insufficiently short gorefest...nothing more than an exercise in sadism.

May 12, 2008 Full Review Source: One Guy's Opinion

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Frank Swietek

One Guy's Opinion

Hardly a trailblazer.

May 11, 2008 Full Review Source: Horror.com

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Staci Layne Wilson

Horror.com Source: Horror.com

Though neither subtle nor particularly original, Gens' spin on the meat-movie classic has both nightmarish energy to spare.

May 9, 2008 Full Review Source: TV Guide's Movie Guide

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Maitland McDonagh

TV Guide's Movie Guide

A relentlessly ugly and derivative reworking of The Texas Chain Saw Massacre.

May 8, 2008 Full Review Source: AV Club

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Scott Tobias

AV Club

has neither the weight nor the ingenuity to make a solid impression past its unorthodox dispatching techniques.

May 7, 2008 Full Review Source: Filmcritic.com

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Chris Cabin

Filmcritic.com

Perhaps it's because I see so many by-the-numbers horror movies but when a director is willing to go as far off the rails as Gens tries to go in Frontier(s), it goes a long way with me.

May 7, 2008 Full Review Source: The Deadbolt

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Brian Tallerico

The Deadbolt

Explicit in Frontier(s) is its maker's belief that nothing should be left to the imagination.

May 5, 2008 Full Review Source: Slant Magazine

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Ed Gonzalez

Slant Magazine

This film will not be easily forgotten or shaken off, I guarantee this is one for the ages%u2026 you are about to enter a new frontier of horror.

April 17, 2008 Full Review Source: Bloody Disgusting

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Brad Miska

Bloody Disgusting

a bludgeoning, bloody trawl through the cliches of survival horror, with a strong contemporary political subtext - and as with any good barbecue, there is plenty of red sauce, and absolutely nothing has been left underdone.

March 10, 2008 Full Review Source: Film4

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Anton Bitel

Film4

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Pretty fucked up movie.

March 10, 2011

J P

Super Reviewer

It might be one of the goriest movies I've ever seen, but unfortunately, it isn't a good one to say the least. It's the oft repeated theme (as in Vacancy, TCM, Hostel, Martyrs, etc.) of a psychotic family that kills a group of teenagers one by one except for one. Won't give away the ending although I don't feel it'd

February 20, 2011