Horror Movie Review: The French Scare Film Frontiers (2008)

How does one describe Frontiers. Crazy? Off the wall? Completely f--ked up? Yeah that says it perfectly.

For those who wrote off Director Xavier Gens because of his studio effort Hitman, please re-consider! He is much better than that, trust me. Before Hitman, Xavier Gens directed this little horror picture, that frankly, blew me away. This is what the genre needs these days. Screw that Prom Night remake crap invading theaters these days, this is what we need.

You can call it a french version of the original Texas Chainsaw Massacre and The Hills have eyes with a little bit of Hostel thrown in. This is a tough horror cookie that is hard swallow. It drags you through the mud and calls you its bitch. Frontiers is the horror film that fanboys will be drooling over when it hits DVD shelves May 13th.

The cinematography is beautiful yet filthy at the same time. You can call it a pretty ugly film. Xavier Gens' directing is perfect. The suspense is nail biting and his sequences of violence attack you emotionally. The cast is great. You feel for the victims and hate the villains. Special mention to Jean-Pierre Jorris, who plays the head of the Nazi family, Father, in the film. This is guy is uber creepy and there is not a single doubt in your head that this guy is a cannibalistic Nazi. Perfect casting.

French horror films these days had some great music score and Frontiers is no exception. Creepy and chills you to the bone. The violence/gore is hard stuff to watch, unless your a huge horror fanboy, in which you've seen this type of stuff a million times. But Frontiers still delivers the red stuff and without completely spoiling anything, things are cut off and blown off in various different ways. You even get little mutated children in the film. Mix all those elements together and you have the perfect horror outing.

The film ends on the perfect note. The ending echoes the one of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre but bloodier. The end credits features a great song by A.W.I.M.