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Indeed, I’m out :-) The fact that there’s already a movie similar to what I’ve described without me being aware of it says a lot about the ideas circulating in the industry. As for the release of the sixth chapter of Saw, I’ll just brush over it…

@TheJargonKing: I think that any definition or genre label for Frank Zappa is reductive. As for Porcupine Tree, the discussion is simpler than you think, and it wasn't necessary to bring up Frank Zappa. I believe that many find their exhausting quest for virtuosity, perfection in execution, and experimentation pushed to the limits of mental masturbation fulfilled in prog. The PT can be all of this and the exact opposite, as they demonstrate in songs like "Where We Would Be," "Lazarus," and "Sentimental," which are as simple in their structure as they are disarming in their beauty. By this, I mean that the prog label is reductive for them, precisely because there are pieces that, for better or worse, depending on whether you like them or not, have absolutely nothing to do with prog, and yet they don't look out of place. I believe that for them, music matters more than the musician, unlike other bands. At least, this is the impression they give me.

I fully agree. After all, zombie stories, monsters, and hellish creatures are taken for what they are: representations of pure fantasy, as well as a means of escaping reality. Instead, the fact that to exaggerate reality one invents an enigmatiste, a terminally ill person, who in their last days manages to produce something like 300 deadly devices, enough to create 5 films, of which 2 are post-mortem, or takes a French family whose members are all mentally ill, cannibals, incestuous, and brutal murderers, ultimately seems more ridiculous than disturbing. In short, if this is the reference standard, what should we expect from the upcoming films, a mad doctor performing autopsies on patients still alive?

"Prog" is reductive for them...

Just to clarify the concept further, I think it’s completely pointless to sit through almost 2 hours of guttings and slashing if by the halfway mark you can predict how it will end (that is, who will survive, how they will survive, and with whose help they will survive). At this point, Saw is better: it makes you think a bit and is catastrophic until the end (everyone dies)...

@Gummo: It seems evident to me that you read the review hastily, or my written Italian is a source of numerous misunderstandings. Forgive me if I'm not a cinephile with a refined palate, but these are the horror films I've had the opportunity and, unfortunately, the desire to see. In short, this is what was available. That said, I didn't compare "Frontiers" to "Saw" or "Hostel." I referred to these two films (but as I wrote in the review, more to the sequels of the franchise than to the first Saw, which had something good) to describe the downward spiral of a genre that increasingly tries to impress with mindless and brutal violence, at the cost of offering predictable or implausible plots. I confess that "The Silence of the Lambs" would terrify me today 10 times more than Hostel or Frontiers, which instead made me "sick," in the strictest sense of the word (because seeing eyeballs hanging like pendants or human guts on the butcher's counter makes me sick, not scared). So my criticism was due to the fact that these films aim to disgust, certainly not to terrify. And if this is the trend, I’m happy to distance myself from it. As for the references, rest assured that I openly mentioned "The Texas Chain Saw Massacre."

Feel free to argue, no one will censor you.

Well... as for the dinner scene, aside from the room's decor, I didn't find anything particularly memorable. That atmosphere of tension, leading up to the "great" finale, felt all too familiar. As I mentioned in a previous comment, the setting is certainly better and more unsettling than "Hostel," but I don't think that's enough to make it even a barely adequate film, because the predictable plot and excessive brutality overshadow everything else. At least the sequels to "Saw" could rely on the audience's anticipation of a surprise ending, while in "Frontiers," I assure you, I had even begun to predict that one of the villains would "redeem" themselves. I couldn't wait for it to end because the story was at least 30 years old, and the only thing keeping me glued to the chair was a morbid and masochistic curiosity about how far they would take the torture.

Yes Alia, the film is French. In this regard, I would add that the only salvable thing about the film is some rather unsettling landscape shots, which are nonetheless irrelevant. Anyway, thank you! :)

2 stars for the most beautiful songs. Just imagine how the bad ones must have been...