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Reviews Counted:21
Fresh:13
Rotten:8
Average Rating:5.6/10
Consensus: Perhaps slapdash with its aspirations toward message-making, this ultra-gory horror flick nonetheless delivers the bloody goods.
Theatrical Release:May 9, 2008 Limited
Synopsis: Part of the onslaught of grim, new millennium French horror films including HIGH TENSION (2003), THEM (2006) and INSIDE (2007), FRONTIER(S) is a punishing TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE-inspired tale... [More]
Starring: Karina Testa, Aurelien Wiik, Patrick Ligardes, David Saracino
Director: Xavier Gens
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.
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
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.
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.
An entertaining horror flick that benefits from the inclusion of several gleefully over-the-top kill sequences.
...an entertaining horror flick that benefits from the inclusion of several gleefully over-the-top kill sequences.
An entertaining horror flick that benefits from the inclusion of several gleefully over-the-top kill sequences.
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.
Despite all its primal brutality, Frontier(s) is a deep, intelligent and very political movie.
Though neither subtle nor particularly original, Gens' spin on the meat-movie classic has both nightmarish energy to spare.
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.
Frontier(s) is just an average horror film with some above average gore.
A patently over-the-top piece of gore-drenched survival horror. Very familiar but very fun.
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has neither the weight nor the ingenuity to make a solid impression past its unorthodox dispatching techniques.
Explicit in Frontier(s) is its maker's belief that nothing should be left to the imagination.
Nasty, brutish but--pace Thomas Hobbes--insufficiently short gorefest...nothing more than an exercise in sadism.
It’s as relentless as it is hateful, hammily directed and derivative of the dreariest slop in contemporary American horror cinema.
Top CriticCan a movie be an adrenalin-fueled, blood-gushing thrill ride and still be as boring as dirt? Apparently.
Top CriticA relentlessly ugly and derivative reworking of The Texas Chain Saw Massacre.
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