Can a movie be an adrenalin-fueled, blood-gushing thrill ride and still be as boring as dirt? Apparently.
– John Anderson,
Variety,
19 Sep 2007
rotten:
It's as relentless as it is hateful, hammily directed and derivative of the dreariest slop in contemporary American horror cinema.
– Jim Ridley,
Village Voice,
8 May 2008
rotten:
A relentlessly ugly and derivative reworking of The Texas Chain Saw Massacre.
– Scott Tobias,
AV Club,
8 May 2008
fresh:
The real surprise of Frontier(s) is that this creepy, bloody contemporary gross-out also has some ideas, visual and otherwise, wedged among its sanguineous drips.