Frontier(s) (2007) poster
2007 · horror

Frontier(s)

Directed by Xavier Gens1h 48m2007
ElsewhereIMDb6.230kRT60%Metacritic44TMDB6.2805
  • heavy
  • kinetic
  • extreme
  • bleak
  • cold
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Heavy, breathless, extreme horror, grounded in texture. Nihilistic, intimate, cold, hand-scored across twelve axes of taste.

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A gang of young thieves flee Paris during the violent aftermath of a political election, only to hole up at an Inn run by neo-Nazis.

Our read · Frontier(s) (2007) reads as a heavy, breathless, grounded horror entry — extreme in intensity, intimate in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic in outlook. Hand-scored on twelve axes of taste — mood, pacing, weirdness, hope, stakes, humour, reality, density, warmth, auteur, intensity, and era — with a derived palette drawn from its dominant cinematography.

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You want punishing French extremity where neo-Nazis turn hospitality lethal.

ends devastatingit will wreck youa rollercoastergrips by minute 25attention 5/5earns its lengthsubtitles: full
Date nightWith friendsSoloWith parentsKids around
Heads-upexplicit sexnuditysexual violencegraphic violencegore

Skip it tonightSkip if torture, gore, and sexual brutality will haunt you for days.

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Each axis is hand-scored — not derived from votes or genre averages. The marker shows where this film sits; the gradient fill uses the film's own cinematography palette.

Mood · HeavyCosy
Pacing · Slow-burnKinetic
Intensity · GentleExtreme
Weirdness · ConventionalSurreal
Hope · NihilisticRedemptive
Stakes · IntimateEpic
Humour · NoneBroad
Reality · GroundedFantastical
Density · SparseTwisty
Warmth · ColdTender
Auteur · TransparentSignature
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