Frontier (s) - Do you know your pain threshold?

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Movie
German title Frontier (s) - Do you know your pain threshold?
Original title Frontière (s)
Country of production France , Switzerland
original language French
Publishing year 2007
length 103: 47 minutes (uncut) 100: 38 minutes
Age rating FSK 18 (cut)

SPIO / JK : no serious risk to young people (cut)

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Director Xavier Gens
script Xavier Gens
production Laurent Tolleron
music Jean-Pierre Taieb
camera Laurent Barès
cut Carlo Rizzo
occupation

Frontier (s) - Do you know your pain threshold? (OT: Frontière (s) ) is a French - Swiss horror film from 2007. The Backwoods horror film was shot by Xavier Gens and is in the tradition of hostel and a new wave of hard horror films from France.

action

Massive riots broke out in the banlieues of Paris after a choice was made between a conservative and a right-wing extremist candidate. Sami, his sister Yasmin, their ex-boyfriends Alex, Tom and Farid take advantage of the unrest to land the big coup. The criminals run away with 125,000 euros. However, Sami was critically injured and Yasmin and Alex are taking him to the hospital. Meanwhile, Tom and Farid are fleeing to the country. After Sami dies from his gunshot wound, Yasmin and Alex follow Tom and Farid into the hinterland. Tom and Farid stay in a small hotel and have fun with the somewhat crazy-looking daughters of the house. At dinner the degenerate family gets upset when they feed their mother in a strange way. Tom and Farid retreat to their room, but suddenly Karl, the son of the family, shows up and tries to steal their money. Tom and Farid flee, but are pushed off the road, but are seriously injured and are able to hide in an old mine. Meanwhile, Yasmin and Alex arrive at the hotel. The family is friendly and lures them to an old mine.

While Yasmin and Alex want to dine with the family, Farid and Tom fight for survival. They want to get up through a narrow shaft when suddenly a dog drives them through the shaft. While Farid escapes, Tom is caught by a corpulent man and hung by two meat hooks with his feet . When Alex accidentally discovers his friend using the toilet, he tries to warn Yasmin, who misunderstands the situation. Both are caught and chained in the pigsty. Hans, the stocky man, meanwhile, lets Tom bleed to death. Alex manages to free Yasmin, but the two lack the strength to loosen Alex's chains as well. Yasmin flees, but is brought back by Götz. The "father" cuts Alex's Achilles tendon so that he cannot escape again. Finally, the family executes Alex in front of Yasmin. Farid tries to overpower Hans and Karl, but is locked in a pressure furnace and then shot.

Yasmin is now to be introduced into the family and married to Karl. It turns out that the father of the family is an old Nazi named Carl von Geisler. The “family” consists of degenerate followers whom he wants to bring up in accordance with the National Socialist racial doctrine . The incestuous children of Eva, a mentally handicapped woman, are in the mines . The “family” itself feeds on human flesh. At dinner, Yasmin manages to escape. The "father" and Hans die. The other family members chase after Yasmin, who, however, manages to fight off their pursuers. She can kill her captors one by one and in the end receives help from Eva, who wants to take care of her children. Covered in blood, Yasmin finally arrives at a police checkpoint.

background

For director Xavier Gens, Frontier (s) was his full-length directing debut. The film secured Xavier Gens the directorship of Hitman - Everyone Dies Alone , which was made that same year. The film was born from the idea of ​​combining a political film with the aesthetics of the terror films of the 1970s and 1980s. The film is heavily influenced by American backwoods slasher films such as Blood Court in Texas and its remake Michael Bay's Texas Chainsaw Massacre . Although the harsh effects of violence are reminiscent of American films such as Hostel and Saw , Gens claims that he was not influenced by these films, since he finished the script in 2002.

publication

After the film premiered in German-speaking countries at the “Fantasy Filmfest Nights”, the rental DVD (JK approval) had to be cut by around 4 minutes, the purchase DVD ( FSK no youth approval ) even by 8 minutes. Curiously, there has been a Blu-Ray with "FSK 18+" approval on the German market since 2010, which was only shortened by around two and a half minutes. Presumably it is a bad pressing.

In Austria, the uncut version of the film was released on DVD in 2008. In January 2011 it was released as a limited edition on Blu-ray in a Mediabook packaging.

The SPIO / JK version of the film, cut by 3 minutes, was indexed on List A in February 2009 .

reception

Frontier (s) is a film on the tough French horror film wave around High Tension , Martyrs and Inside . The reviews were mediocre to good.

“At heart, Frontière (s) is nothing more than a Texas Chainsaw Massacre remake, seasoned with a dash of The Descent and seasoned with a pinch of high tension . Xavier Gens pulls his plot through with so much esprit and verve that one is happy and willing to be wrapped up. In his debut, the director presses the accelerator pedal from minute one and, despite the well-known story, continues to amaze with crispy niceties. "

- Thorsten Hanisch : Manifesto - The film magazine

"The extremely tough horror film follows the trend in the current French genre tradition and copies a number of role models, admittedly with a feeling for an independent atmosphere."

- Lexicon of international film

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Release certificate for Frontier (s) - Do you know your pain threshold? Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , July 2008 (PDF; test number: 114 247-a K).
  2. ↑ Release certificate for Frontier (s) - Do you know your pain threshold? Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry, July 2008 (PDF; test number: 114 247 DVD).
  3. ^ A b Review by Arrow in the Head. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on February 22, 2010 ; Retrieved July 6, 2010 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.joblo.com
  4. ↑ Interview with Xavier Gens and Karina Testa ( Memento from July 21, 2012 in the web archive archive.today )
  5. ↑ Review on splashmovies.de ( Memento from September 11, 2012 in the web archive archive.today )
  6. ↑ Interview with Xavier Gens ( Memento from September 5, 2012 in the web archive archive.today )
  7. ↑ Frontier (s) - Do you know your pain threshold? Online film database , accessed July 6, 2010 .
  8. ↑ Frontier (s) - Do you know your pain threshold? Section reports , accessed April 6, 2014 .
  9. ↑ Thorsten Hanisch: Review. Manifest - Das Filmmagazin, accessed on July 6, 2010 .
  10. ↑ Frontier (s) - Do you know your pain threshold? in the Lexicon of International FilmsTemplate: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used , accessed April 15, 2012