Movie Review: Frontier
I just watched Frontier, a French horror movie by Xavier Gens, and i can emphatically say “Wow! That was a brutal film!”
The movie is about a group of young people who form up a rather incohesive team of thieves to try and take advantage of the wide spread looting and rioting after the elections finish in France. Having stollen an acceptable amount of cash, the group heads out to the “Frontier” to escape the law, only to end up in the clutches of an insane neo-Nazi family running a people eating butcher shop.
The movie was filled with some very gruesome and bloddy scenes, but was shot in an manner that was at times, quite often actually, rather artistic. It was simultaneously intriguing, visually appealing, grotesquely gory, and realistically brutal. We’ve all seen the movies where the fights look good, almost too good, leaving the viewer feeling like he’s just seen a good clean piece of choreography. But leave it to a non-American movie maker to put in scenes of a large man giving a hard right to a small woman’s jaw, followed by a flinchingly realistic kick to the head. Ouch!
Head on over to The Playground to read their review and see a few more images and details.