“Frontier(s)” is a French movie that doesn’t really know what it
wants to be. It’s a horror movie at least but the focus of the film keeps changing. First
violent mobs and riots are causing trouble all around Paris because of election
results. The police are being overwhelmed and martial law and curfews come into
effect. But this situation is quickly forgotten as soon as the main characters
drive out of the city and onto their way to Amsterdam. The movie then takes on
a “Hostel” kind of vibe as the main characters check into a small roadside
motel in the country and are seduced by the woman running the front desk. Then
the movie switches to cannibalism without directly saying so (hinting that the
dinner is cooked in pork fat when asked what it is that they are eating) then
onto the bizarre family dynamics and their Nazis-like father then onto the
problems of deformed inbred children who are seen munching away on various
corpses that are kept in a storage area. The staff of Scarecrow Video in
Seattle list this movie as one of the most disturbing films they have in their
horror section; it’s good but not nearly as disturbing as “Texas Chainsaw
Massacre” , which by the way didn’t even make their list. It’s an interesting
movie that just tries to do too much; this is the kind of film to approach with
no expectations and simply enjoy the ride.
Favorite moment – When Yesmine kills Goetz, essentially
pushing him onto a table saw.
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