Starring: Karina Testa, Aurélien Wiik, Patrick Ligardes, David Saracino, Maud Forget Directed By: Xavier Gens Average Rating: Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1 Audience Rating: NC-17 Binding: DVD Format: Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC Label: After Dark Films Number of Items: 1 Region Code: 1 Release Date: May 13, 2008 Running Time: 108 minutes Theatrical Release Date: May 09, 2008
Product Description: Alone in a Paris plagued by deadly race riots the young and beautiful Yasmine is looking for a way out. In her desperation she turns to her shady ex-boyfriend. Together with his two thug friends they pull off a bold heist and head for the border. With the police close behind they hide out in a seemingly peaceful inn. But the mysterious innkeeper is hiding a secret more terrifying than anything they could ever imagine. Trapped in an endless maze of tunnels crawling with hungry subhuman cannibals they must fight to survive their bloody initiation into the innkeeper's evil family cult.System Requirements:Running Time: 108 minutes Language: French Subtitles: English / SpanishFormat: DVD MOVIE Genre: HORROR/DEMONS Rating: NR UPC: 031398232742 Manufacturer No: 23274
In Paris there have been riots going on during an election campaign, a group of troubled punks escape from the city after commiting a vicious crime and away from the cops. They hide out in the countryside at a secluded Inn owned by strange people but instead of finding a nice dream of a place to stay, it becomes a living nightmare when the owners reveal themselves to be terrible neo-nazis who want new world order and uses the crooks as subjects for their torturous experiments of fascism.
Interesting and gripping French/Swiss horror thriller is one of the better horror imports of recent memory! The film does offer a little political subtext as one of the major subjects of the film including the idea of fascism and terrorism. There is graphic scenes of torture and gore like a man boiling in a very high steam room and a few cringe inducing moments, the film does have decent acting and decent direction as the film is France's answer to "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre" as it leaves you shocked and feeling sorry for the characters. Luc Besson ("Leon", "The Fifth Element") serves as one of the producers, this is definitely a worth while shocker that has guts literally and some good ideas.
This DVD is pratically bareboned with only trailers to other movies, no interviews or featurettes nor a commentary but offers the film in it's uncut unrated version with English Subtitles.
Also recommended: "Ichi The Killer", "Texas Chainsaw Massacre Series including 2003 remake and The Beginning", "Friday The 13th Series", "Halloween Series including 2007 Rob Zombie version", "The Devil's Rejects", "Re-Animator", "Men Behind The Sun", "Deep Red", "Suspiria", "Inferno", "The Hills Have Eyes (1977 and 2006)", "High Tension", "Hostel 1 & 2", "Cannibal Ferox", "Saw Series", "The New York Ripper", "From Dusk Till Dawn", "Grindhouse", "The Hitcher (1986)", "Last House on The Left", "Maniac (1980)", "Borderland", "Inside (2007)", "The Untold Story", "Bloodsucking Freaks", "A Nightmare on Elm Street", "Cannibal Apocalypse", "The Toxic Avenger", "Blood Diner", "Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer", "Ilsa Series", "Wolf Creek", "Mother's Day", "The Burning" and "Otis".
Gore Galore Plot in a nutshell- Criminals on the run from the cops make a stop at a hostel on the outskirts of the city. Its a normal hostel, if all hostels are ran by cannibals. Hope they brought running shoes...
Sick but Entertaining. Its like if "Texas Chainsaw Massacre" had a love child with "Hostel." If you liked both of those flicks you'll love this one. Frontier(s) is only availible with English subtitles (no dubbing) for all of you folks who don't like "reading" movies. Well worth a watch even if you don't as there is plenty of very well done gore.
It's a gas!! I saw a lot of hype on this before it came out, so I was expecting a lot from it. It wasn't the best I've seen, but if you like "Hostel" then this is definitely worth the money.
Just worth watching I enjoyed this to the end. There was enough gore, brutality, crazy inbred villains, and gushing blood to keep me interested to the end. This is not the French answer to Hostel, it is different in many respects. It was blood soaked. If that's your thing, you will like it. If not, then don't watch it.
Torture porn at its best made in France. Gory, fast, well made but with nothing new. Well... some people just loved this film. In a certain way, it's understandable. Today, European horror films are outdoing anything done in Hollywood. This film is no exception.
Synopsis: a group of French young criminals are on the run after a heist while Paris burns during the 2005 riots that turned the French capital upside down for weeks. Traveling in separate cars, they decide to meet at a shabby hostel in the coutry... but the place is run by a family of sadistic killers led by an old Nazi.
Yes, it is gore galore.
The problem with these torture-porn films is that there isn't much story. They just turn into a cat and mouse 90-minute journey where every three minutes there's an excuse to someone to lose limbs, the head, get cut, sawed to pieces, etc, etc, etc.
The good thing is that the journey here is made with great actors as the film shows a great cast of young French actors along with some familiar faces.
The bad thing is that the screenplay here copies from 100 other great (and not so great) films we've already seen. No, there isn't one single minute here that you can call original.
So here's the deal: great actors, great makeup, lots of gore... but there's nothing here we haven't seen before.
I was expecting a lot more. But even at that, this film is much better than the usual American horror. This one is REALLY made to shock. It is really made with taste.
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