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19 May 2008 11:04 AM, PDT | From bloody-disgusting.com | See recent Bloody-Disgusting.com news

This morning your first look at Terror Project 6 found its way online. Terror is an upcoming French television mini-series that's a horror anthology project featuring young French speaking film makers from around the globe with Xavier Gens and Fabrice Du Welz on board as series godfathers. If you head on over to Twitch you can check out an exclusive early look at the teaser for the first episode of the series, "Spécialité du Chef" by Grégory Sacré. Watch for more updates soon.

8 May 2008 2:04 PM, PDT | From avclub.com | See recent The AV Club news

The brutal French splatter film Frontier(s) opens with footage of riots in the Paris suburbs in response to the election of an extreme right-wing candidate. It then transitions from the frying pan into the fire, as four hoodlums flee the authorities for the countryside and wind up in an inn operated by cannibalistic neo-Nazis. That juxtaposition is what passes for social commentary in the film, which otherwise commits itself to a relentlessly ugly and derivative reworking of The Texas Chain Saw Massacre. Along with films like Á L'Intérieur (Inside) and Haute Tension (High Tension), Frontier(s) represents a mini-movement of Hollywood-slick yet fashionably outré French horror that seeks to beat its extreme American counterparts at their own game. In this particular case, director Xavier Gens (Hitman) probably should have aimed higher. For all practical purposes, the election-day riots are a red herring, since the gang of four, having just.

Scott Tobias

5 May 2008 11:26 PM, PDT | From bloody-disgusting.com | See recent Bloody-Disgusting.com news

If you head on over to Bdtv you can watch two exclusive clips and the Us trailer for After Dark Films' Frontier(s) (review), which we began the hype after seeing this past September in Toronto. Directed by Xavier Gens, the film arrives in limited theaters this Friday with a DVD release by Lionsgate on Tuesday May 13. In the film 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.

5 May 2008 8:14 AM, PDT | From ifc.com | See recent IFC news

By Neil Pedley

This week sees the return of the Wachowski brothers, Tarsem Singh ("The Cell") and Henry Bean ("The Believer") to the big screen, not to mention new films from documentarians Nick Broomfield ("Tupac and Biggie") and Doug Pray ("Scratch"). On the other hand, after running around Tribeca, we still need to catch up on last week's releases.

"The Babysitters"

The idea of the spunky teenage boy succumbing to the allure of an experienced older woman is the kind of Hollywood golden goose that launches major careers (think Dustin Hoffman). But when the roles are reversed, the result is the directorial debut of David Ross that sees an entrepreneurial high schooler (Katherine Waterston, daughter of Sam) and her friends turn their babysitting ring into a call girl service, realizing there are alternative ways to pay for college besides waiting tables. It stars when one local dad (John Leguizamo) goes

Neil Pedley

16 April 2008 12:16 PM, PDT | From bloody-disgusting.com | See recent Bloody-Disgusting.com news

Inside we scored a list of theaterrs playing Xavier Gens' awesome French horror film, Frontier(s) (review), which arrives in theaters May 9th from After Dark Films and then hits DVD the following Tuesday from Lionsgate Home Entertainment. In the film 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. Read on to see if you get to check out the bad boy in theaters.

6 March 2008 1:59 PM, PST | From bloody-disgusting.com | See recent Bloody-Disgusting.com news

Another French gem is finding its way to DVD on May 13, thanks to Lionsgate Home Entertainment. Arriving at retailers everywhere after a small theatrical run this spring is Xavier Gens' incredible Frontier(s) (review). The art can be found inside, but no specs have been revealed thus far other than that it will be presented in 2.35:1 widescreen with Dolby Digital 5.1 audio (French with English subtitles). Set in France, Frontier(s) tells the story of four friends who are entrenched in the Paris riots. They have stolen a large sum of money and are heading for the Danish border.  On their way, they check into a motel where things appear to be too good to be true.  They find that looks are deceiving as this motel rapidly turns into a house of horrors run by a Neo-Nazi family.

6 articles from 2008