Thursday, November 19, 2009

Frontier(s)

French film about people rioting during an election. This band of rowdies drops off one of their boys at the hospital because he’s been shot, then they head for the hills. Two of them stop in a small town and grab a hotel room. The boys get attacked and almost killed, chased, and their car falls a hundred feet into a mineshaft. Meanwhile their friends, a broken up couple, show up at the hotel and ask about them. The people at the first hotel take the friends to a second hotel where stuff gets really weird, including seeing one of their boys strung up by hooks in his feet and being bled. As it turns out, it’s one big creepy white supremacist family killing a LOT of people who stop in for a visit. Two of the people get chained up, while the other one gets trapped in a steam room and cooked until his skin peels off. It’s kind of crazy, but for what really should be an intense movie, it’s just kind of droll. The girl that escape from being chained up gets recaptured and forced to be a baby machine in the family. She gets her revenge though.

The screaming in this film doesn’t seem all that realistic, nor did the acting. I really think this movie had potential to have the whole Saw/Hostel intensity to it, but frankly I got bored. This is one to overlook if you come across it. Not only are there a severe lack of boobs for a French movie, but the whole thing seemed kind of pointless, especially with the movie ending with a radio station announcing a new president for France, which doesn’t mean anything to anyone since there’s carnage all over this farm in rural France.

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