After watching 'High Tension', which has become my favorite horror movie since 'Kill List' and 'Martyrs' I was really excited to see 'Frontier(s)'. On some horror message boards it was listed up their with the aforementioned titles, so I was expecting it to be incredible. I have to say though, I'm a bit disappointed, because in the end, it just felt like rehashed material that tried to be original by putting it into a political context.
If you've watched 'Deliverance' or 'Texas Chainsaw Massacre' this film will come as nothing new to you. It's another case of liberal city slickers (like myself) getting lost in the backwoods, and paying the price for meddling with ignorant red-neck scum. There's a lot of gore and violence in this movie, but what it lacks that 'Texas Chainsaw Massacre' was rich in, is atmosphere. There's no room with furniture made of skin and bones, and aside from some Nazi paraphernalia, this film kind of lacks in the macabre department.
Another thing that bothered me was that I felt very unsympathetic towards the characters. Quite honestly they seemed like jerks so I couldn't really get that emotionally invested.
Luckily the ending is good enough. I liked how after escaping her tormentors and taking off in a car, she hears that the current right wing politician has survived an assassination attack and then screams in agony. Ahead of her is either the military or police at a road stop, and she gets out and surrenders herself, realizing that her literal fight against a conservative far-right government is futile, and finally gives up. It would have been kind of cooler if instead she shot them all, because it's kind of depressing that she just turns herself in, but it still made the movie seem like there was some sort of point, other than just showing miserable ways that people can die and bleed.
If you've watched 'Deliverance' or 'Texas Chainsaw Massacre' this film will come as nothing new to you. It's another case of liberal city slickers (like myself) getting lost in the backwoods, and paying the price for meddling with ignorant red-neck scum. There's a lot of gore and violence in this movie, but what it lacks that 'Texas Chainsaw Massacre' was rich in, is atmosphere. There's no room with furniture made of skin and bones, and aside from some Nazi paraphernalia, this film kind of lacks in the macabre department.
Another thing that bothered me was that I felt very unsympathetic towards the characters. Quite honestly they seemed like jerks so I couldn't really get that emotionally invested.
Luckily the ending is good enough. I liked how after escaping her tormentors and taking off in a car, she hears that the current right wing politician has survived an assassination attack and then screams in agony. Ahead of her is either the military or police at a road stop, and she gets out and surrenders herself, realizing that her literal fight against a conservative far-right government is futile, and finally gives up. It would have been kind of cooler if instead she shot them all, because it's kind of depressing that she just turns herself in, but it still made the movie seem like there was some sort of point, other than just showing miserable ways that people can die and bleed.