Review of Frontier(s) (2007) by Stacie R — 14 Apr 2009

The last of the four new french wave of horror-slasher movies I have been watching the past few days and I must, sadly, say that it ended up being the least interesting one. If it where not for the absolutely beautiful and appearently talanted Karina Testas in the role as the pregnant Yasmine then I would not recomend any one to watch it.

Again, as all of the recent french horrors I've been watching as of late the production appears high quality, but besides that the similarities in quality ends. The story; A group of youths with some violent dealings in the Parise riots flees Paris and ends up in an countryside Inn run by a cannibalistic inbreed neo-nazi family.. Yeah, that might not give any oen so high expectations, but as the story presents itself the cannibalistic neo-nazi familys members actually do have some interesting seeds of personality and plots, which surpriced me.. Then they never get explored, actually they get our right wasted except for the character Eva (Maud Forget) and even there some madjor parts fo her story don't get as much time as one would wish. All the way through the movie there's frustrating lose ends to glimts of story and character development that we never ever get to se evolve, it all ends in a big showdown where teh almost cataonic Yasmin wades through pigs shit, blood and guts, and blod, and some guts.

I did enjoy some scenes through, mostly featureing Yasmin (Karina Testa) displaying her paniced terror and anguish over the situation (standing in the rain after the ordeal) and there's one scene with Eva cutting Yasmins long full black hair, as she explains how she got here,which is a great scene too (but as I've been stateing, in so many of these french horror movie reviews now,I do have a huge soft spot for beautiful boyish short haired women, specialy when they display desperation, vulnerability and strength of character, that just gets my knees wobbely).

I can't realy recomend this movie, it's not good, but if you like to follow the emotional breakdown, desperation and strength of character that Karin Testa displays with Yasmin then by all means do, but sadly it's not enough to lift the movie as a whole above two stars, and they belong to Karina Testa and Maud Forget.