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Frontier(s)Consumer Rating : Price Range : $10.99 - $11.06
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 intended for viewers who like an extra side of gore with their scares. Initially intended to be released as part of the 2007 Afterdark Horrorfest, FRONTIERE(S) was dropped after being refused an R-rating by the MPAA due to extreme violence. Xavier Gens's uncompromising vision of backwoods brutality is definitely painted with several shades of crimson. Amidst 2002 elections that see a conservative regime taking control of France, riots rage in Paris. A gang of young thieves sees the tumult as a good chance to pull off a heist, but one of their own is fatally wounded in a scuffle with a police officer. The four remaining members of the group pair off and retreat to a remote country hotel, run by a family of cannibal neo-Nazis led by uniformed patriarch Le Von Geisler (Jean-Pierre Jorris). Separated from her fellow th... | Merchant Offers |