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Originally Posted by KrimsonKing
Killer pigs? The version I saw claimed to be unrated but their was nary a sight of killer pigs. And I like killer pigs!
The problem with the scene where the French man with the pornstar moustache falls on the saw is that we don't see anything. Ok, there's plenty of claret but I was expecting to see the saw cutting into him or emerging from his chest. Didn't happen, though.
Now you mention the pressure chamber I did think that was quite good. Don't see enough melting faces in modern horror these days.
Ultimately, though, films like these are nothing knew. Tobe Hooper did it all first and, I dare say, a whole lot better.
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Ha, yes, killer pigs are the best. Maybe I'm misremembering but I could have swore that the couple that was chained up in the cellar was under threat of a pack of really mean pigs. I don't remember if they actually did any killing though. I do remember, when the woman dug under the rails to escape, she had to submerge herself in pig dung, which for me was effective.
I agree, this movie didn't have much that we haven't seen before, but I thought it was a good compilation and pretty well done. It was grimy and bloody and muddy, and I felt I could taste it. That was the difference, for me, between Frontier(s) and the many other rehash movies out there. True, Tope Hooper did it already, but we can't all watch TCM '74 every day. Every other month, maybe. :)
I will say though -- the first time I watched this, it was on IFC and I think it was English dubbed. The second time (years later), I watched it in French with a ridiculously bad subtitle file. Like, seriously I think the original dialogue was fed through Google Translate or something. It was so bad, it was distracting, so I focused a lot more on the visual aspect of the movie, and less on the dialogue, and that's where this movie excels IMO.
However, compared to other French Extremity, I like Martyrs, Inside, Ils and probably Haute Tension better than Frontier(s). I like Frontier(s) better than Irreversible, Trouble Every Day, Sheitan, In My Skin, The Ordeal (Calvaire), Carne, and Mutants, all of which I liked quite a bit. Baise-moi was total crap. There's still a few I haven't seen, like Brotherhood of the Wolf and Seul Contre Tous (I Stand Alone).