Review of Frontier(s) (2007) by Dan G — 26 Mar 2009

As a torturer &/or cannibal &/or neo-nazi family / cult film in the style of 'Hostel' goes, Frontier(s) definitely delivers the goods in the gore (except for with one character whose death is concealed in a cut-away; what a rip).

The gore effects are rather convincing and are genuinely shocking here where many other films like it in recent memory have fallen flat or have looked good at first but fail to hold up under closer scrutiny.

What Frontier(s) fails to deliver is any kind of logic whatsoever. Now, for the kind of movie it is, this isn't usually a problem that you can hold against it that much as lacking logic comes with the territory.

But when your villain is a nazi war criminal trying to raise a new 'master race', having him trying to take a non-aryan abductee into his 'family' is just absurd. It is even more absurd in that the aging nazi father is claiming his abductee as a bride for his son (who looks like he's in his 30's and still has plenty of baby making years in him).

Some woman, any woman, without middle eastern features will surely come along before too long. These are some pretty lackluster and impatient Nazis. So yeah; this logic gap bugged me enough to knock a full star off of my rating.