The Horror Cr(yp)tic: FRONTIER(S)

welcome to another review of all things Horror- the old and the new, the great and the shitty, and the famous and obscure. Today's film is a French NC-17 film called Frontier(s).HOLY SHIT. THIS MOVIE IS FUCKING CRAZY.

Intended originally for the After Dark Horrorfest but was disqualified (because of it's NC-17 rating) the film got an extremely limited theater release before going to video. The movie starts at a riot, where the main characters (a pregnant girl named Yasmine, her ex-boyfriend, and his two partners-in-crime) are trying to escape. Yasmine and her ex go one way out of Paris and their friends go the other way.

The two other guys discover an Inn where they befriend the two lovely female workers. They all eventually have sex, and then they run across their brothers. The brothers vicously attack the two out of towners, and they barely escape with their lives. Yasmine and her ex do the same, and become embroiled into the Innkeeper family, discovering they are in fact a group of psychopathic Neo-Nazis. What follows is 2 hours of the most brutal, sadistic, intense violence i have ever seen in any movie (and not in a cartoony, Dead-Alive way. this movie takes itself REALLY seriously).

This movie will kick you in the balls, and while your gasping for air it will throw you down and curb-stomp you. Watching it the whole way through took a lot of determination, I had to sit throught a lot of rough stuff.

Is it any good? Yes, It is a very well made movie, the mood is perfect, and it's pretty unpredictable. It's pretty much what Hostel should have been. Just make sure you have a strong stomach and strong force of will.

7/10