Review – Frontiere(s)

Looks like folks in the non-English-speaking world are learning something from watching old American slasher movies. Unfortunately, what they’ve learned so far isn’t good. This plays like a French adaptation of Texas Chainsaw Massacre, slightly more political and with Saw levels of torture and gore. A group of four petty criminals flees riots in Paris only to fall into a TCM­-style trap set by neo-Nazis. The plot takes approximately half an hour to unravel, and the hour-plus of movie after that is nothing but an intensely tedious parade of screaming, flailing and general misery. The dubbed version, released as Frontier(s) (which is also the U.S. DVD title), managed to pull an NC-17, which kept it out of Horrorfest 2007. Wish I’d skipped it