For your viewing pleasure, here are 20 photos from the new blood-soaked horror film Frontier(s). Perfect for those of you who won't be able to catch the movie in theaters (its theatrical release is extremely limited) and want a taste of what's in the film. Be sure to also check out our review here.
Hostel meets Texas Chainsaw Massacre in Frontier(s), a viciously gruesome French horror film about several young anarchists who, after fleeing the mayhem that has broken out in Paris, come across a cannibalistic family of neo-Nazis. Despite the movie's flaws, French director Xavier Gens delivers one of the year's bloodiest and best horror movies that, in addition to packing more than enough gore to satiate the taste buds of any horror enthusiast (so much so that the film is rated NC-17), also includes a well placed political subtext.
Frontier(s) has some of the foulest gore we've seen is a long time.
It seems the horror genre has long been a refuge for mega porn-stars desperate to cross over into the mainstream. Sure, it makes sense, especially since many a provincial mind consider horror films one short step above porno films to begin with. Besides, quite a smooth transition it is; instead of screwing some stiff to death, now you're actually out to kill them (or simply avoid being killed by them). We saw it in the late '80s early '90s with Traci Lords, who broached commercial filmmaking with such genre fare as Not of This Earth, Shock 'Em Dead, The Tommyknockers, etc. Ginger Lynn Allen (Buried Alive, The Devil's Rejects) is another immediate example. Now Jenna Jameson picks up the torch, doing all she can to keep her flame burning bright in Jay Lee's incompetently silly Zombie Strippers!
Damn, No Wonder Miss Jameson Quit The Porn Game
If you've never seen Ruggero Deodato's infamous exploitation horror film Cannibal Holocaust, it's regarded, even to this day, as one of the controversial movies ever made, horror or otherwise. So contentious was the film, which features a woman being savagely raped with a big pointy rock, a real giant turtle being gutted (along with a slew of other animals actually being slaughtered) and many other memorable scenes, that when it was released in 1980 the director was arrested because authorities believed that the film's numerous atrocities were authentic. If you're a fan of horror, you really owe it to yourself to see Cannibal Holocaust so you can catch up for the sequel which has just been announced. That's right--Cannibal-fucking-Holocaust 2 (officially titled "Ruggero Deadato's Cannibals") is one the way
Someone pinch me because I must be dreaming.
John Carpenter's one hour long Cigarette Burns aired during the first season of Showtime's Masters of Horror series where numerous acclaimed horror filmmakers make their own short-length films. In Cigarette Burns, which is easily the finest entry in the series, a man goes in search of an infamous but hard to track down horror film that allegedly makes the viewer go insane after watching it. It's packs some really gnarly gore scenes that I won't spoil for you and it's arguably the best thing Carpenter has done since The Thing. Enjoy!
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The Shining
Bad Taste
Damn, I've Seen Better Faces On a Hemorrhoid!
My underrated selection for the month of April goes to David Schmoeller's (Puppet Master, Tourist Trap) 1986 film, Crawlspace. Starring the brilliantly menacing Klaus Kinski as Karl Gunther; the son of a Nazi surgeon and superintendent of a tattered apartment building which seems to inhabit only women, the film is a legitimate low budget chiller. You see, he not only rents exclusively to young pretty girls, Gunther has festooned his complex with a batch of odd booby traps and hidden passage ways that all connect to the tunneling inside the heating shafts, or crawlspaces. He worms his way through, voyeuristically leering through tightly slatted peek-holes and narrow vent shafts at his female tenants. He likes to watch them undress. He likes to watch them live. Oh, and of course he likes to watch them die!
After 31 years, renowned Italian horror filmmaker Dario Argento finally completes his Three Mothers Trilogy with the third entry in the series, Mother of Tears. While the new movie has its share of extremely graphic scenes and features some genuinely chilling imagery, ultimately the movie isn't half as well made or even enjoyable as Susperia (1977, the first installment in the trilogy) or Inferno (1980, the second installment), and will likely disappoint both fans of the series and those who have never seen an Argento film.
As impressively grisly as it is, Mother of Tears is one of the weakest films in Argento's filmography.
Mr. Voorhees Hacks His Way Right Into Your Living Room in Friday the 13th part 3
3-D film projection has long offered an amorphous film viewing experience. Constantly adapting and reinventing over the course of its long-lived inception in the early 20th century, three dimensional movie making has come along way, often redefined in accordance with the most cutting edge technology. From the golden age of the 1950s, to the 1980s renaissance, to the turn-of-the-century diarrhetic flood of straight-to-video excrement, to the enormous and recent animated blockbusters, the format has endured it all. However, one thing has remained a constant throughout; 3-D has always been a horror/sci-fi film darling. And now IT'S BACK!
On the docket for newly minted theatrical 3-D horror is a tentative list of development deals, some further along than others:
Reuters reports that horror director Eli Roth, known for his tremendously grisly films Cabin Fever and the Hostel series is making "a movie that 13-year-old kids can see." Although the exact film project Roth is working on has yet to be revealed, he notes that it'll be in the vein of Transformers and Cloverfield, also confirming that his upcoming family-friendly movie will indeed be rated PG-13.
The director goes on to explain his departure from the horror genre saying "I feel like I pushed the violence in R movies about as far as I can push it. I feel like I'm bled out. I wanna switch it up." The article doesn't mention anywhere whether or not Eli Roth is still planning on adapting Steven King's recent zombie novel Cell, but it's a bit discouraging due to the fact that he has been relatively silent about the film since announcing it two years ago.
Final Word:Roth has taken a lot of heat over the last couple of years, mainly in the form of the media criticizing his work bashing it as nothing more than "torture porn," which is complete horse shit. Perhaps he's grown weary of people attacking his films for no reason other than their abundance of gore. Whether his change in direction truly stems from any real reason, fans of Roth's previous films shouldn't worry too much because... hey, horror directors often make deviations. Remember, Romero made crap like Knightriders (the one about medieval jousters on motorcycles). Carpenter made Memoirs of an Invisible Man. Just let Roth get it out of his system and hope that he'll return with Cell, Trailer Trash, and Hostel III (a guy can dream, right?).
#35: Swimming in Blended Humans
From: Phenomena
We don't know what the hell director Dario Argento used to fill up the pool that Jennifer Connelly becomes submerged in, but it looks like liquefied human corpses and that's exactly what it's supposed to be in the movie Phenomena. Easily one of the foulest looking concoctions ever to appear in a film, made nastier due to the fact that Connelly is dunked into the creamy gore.
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