Review of Frontier(s) (2007) by Max E — 29 May 2012

This strikes me as another recent French attempt to emulate Hollywood, with its slick editing, predictable story structure and 'translated' basic plot. Horror needs to be more adventurous, and this is a good example; there were no scares, nothing particularly weird about the hosting family, little imagination.

There were some positives, namely the music, visuals, the dialogue was fun for a while before all the comedy was predictably removed, and overall fairly high production values. Aside from the lack of ambition and cruelty which should appeal to the sadists among us, it features mediocre acting and an excessive running time that bears little reward. An admirable effort, but only half way there. The Last Exorcism reminded me that you don't need blood and gore to make something creepy or scary, and Kill List proved violence could be frightening, but this offers neither.