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Frontieres (2007)
Topic Started: Apr 5 2013, 10:09 AM (344 Views)
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In Paris, during the riots due to the election of a conservative candidate to the presidency of France, a group of four muslim small-time criminal teenagers from the periphery; Alex, Tom, Farid, the pregnant Yasmine, and her brother Sami, plan to run away from Paris to Amsterdam with a bag full of robbed money. However, Sami is shot and the group split up, with Alex and Yasmine going to the emergency hospital with Sami while Tom and Farid head to the border with the money. Tom and Farid decide to stop in a bed and breakfast nearby the frontier, and are hosted by Gilberte and Klaudia that offer free room and sex to the newcomers. They call Alex and Yasmine who are fleeing from Paris to join them in the inn. But soon they discover that their hosts are sadistic cannibals of a Nazi family led by the deranged patriarch and former SS officer and Nazi war criminal Le Von Geisler who plans to make Yasmine the brood mare for a new Aryan master race.
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Amazing, brutal film! One of my favorite foreign horror films! It's so disgusting, disturbing, and gritty.
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definitely wanna see this
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I adore the fuck out of this movie, seriously. The villains were AMAZING and some of the best of their kind since the original Texas Chainsaw Massacre. THe deaths weren't all THAT graphic but they still had some edge to them. The death order came as no surprise but the timing of the characters' demise helped with that. The final 20 minutes were mindblowing and the ending left me wondering what would happen after all of it was over. Loved it<3.
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Cool poster i wanna see this
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I liked it a lot when I first saw it, but it doesn't really hold up when I rewatch it as much as I'd like it to.
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Overall, this was a very interesting if flawed effort as there's some great stuff here and some really troubling stuff. The troubling stuff isn't all that damaging yet features prominently in the film, mainly the fact that the film's several big action scenes are edited with the ultra-annoying and jarring quick-cut editing that renders the whole scene nearly impossible to make out, as if it had a chance with all the camera-jerking and shaking going on. This one, then, features both tactics during these scenes, and they're the big action chases so those are supposed to be the sequences you want to see, so it knocks itself down a bit for that. However, the rest of the film is highly entertaining and utterly enjoyable starting off with the introduction of the Nazi family which is pretty chilling given the relationship with the group, and their series of chases and confrontations are quite fun. As a bloodbath, it's got a lot to like as this one really lets it flow numerous times with it's graphic depictions of bodies getting torn open, dismemberments, decapitations and more, which are pretty realistic at times and generate a lot of fun. As well, there's some nice suspense at times included within, with one stand-out sequence where several victims crawl through an increasingly narrower tunnel guided only by a cigarette lighter and see they're being chased through by something or someone, and they're mixed nicely with the dirty, depraved goings-on to create a rather fun entry that happily stands among the good new French splatter-fests.
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Yeah, the quick-cuts and things weren't HORRIBLE but were kind of unnecessary in *some* of the deaths/fight scenes. The use of that style when the main girl was in the truck a little over an hour into it made that scene better though. And I love the two vs. one girl fight at the end and how that looked.
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I am generally not a fan of quick cuts. There's some movies that use the technique really well, but I only like it if it serves a real purpose in telling the story rather than just adding a bit of stylistic flair.
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Jul 10 2015, 01:15 AM
Yeah, the quick-cuts and things weren't HORRIBLE but were kind of unnecessary in *some* of the deaths/fight scenes. The use of that style when the main girl was in the truck a little over an hour into it made that scene better though. And I love the two vs. one girl fight at the end and how that looked.


For me, it just takes you out of the scene because you can't focus on anything. EVERYTHING is blurred and moving around, from the background to the objects around them to the characters in the scene itself, so what exactly am I supposed to get from a messy shot like that?

Vanessa
Jul 10 2015, 07:05 AM
I am generally not a fan of quick cuts. There's some movies that use the technique really well, but I only like it if it serves a real purpose in telling the story rather than just adding a bit of stylistic flair.


There is no good use for it. I can't stand the technique at all and haven't seen one film that used it effectively.
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The gore and directing are solid.... but it's ultimately still a TCM ripoff. I like a tad bit more originality in my "original" movies.

Didn't hate it, but meh
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Puppy, just because there's no evidence she killed her aunt doesn't make her dating material.


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I quite liked this one. I actually consider this one of the top four or five flicks of the '00s French horror boom. I didn't feel it was a TCM rip-off at all. There were similarities, but I didn't feel they were intentionally trying to mimic it.
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I dunno, they even have their own Sally who gets kept around and nicened up for super special family time before she dies after they slaughter everyone else. That's a really specific similarity (in addition to the general plot, the family of villainous cannibals, etc.). I definitely think the creators saw TCM first and ran with it. It's not quite Insidious/Poltergeist levels to me, but it isn't far off from them. All it's missing is copying exact scenes.

I don't hate this, though.
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I got more of an "Alice-at-the-dinner-party" vibe from that bit than a TCM vibe, but I can see what you're saying. Particularly since I'm pretty sure that's where Tobe Hooper got his inspiration for TCM's dinner party scene, as well. (lol)
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