Product Details

• Actors: Brian Presley, Jake Muxworthy, Rider Strong, Beto Cuevas, Martha Higareda
• Directors: Zev Berman
• Writers: Zev Berman, Eric Poppen
• Format: AC-3, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
• Language: English
• Subtitles: English, Spanish
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rated: Unrated
• Studio: Lions Gate
• DVD Release Date: March 18, 2008
• Run Time: 105 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (32 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B00127RAJ4
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #75,591 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
• For more information about "Borderland - After Dark Horror Fest" visit the Internet Movie Database (IMDb)

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Genre: Horror
Rating: UN
Release Date: 18-MAR-2008
Media Type: DVD

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15 of 19 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Oh those crazy mexican drug lords and their human sacrificing, April 29, 2008

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M. B Cole "Kegrun" (Las Vegas, NV) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Borderland - After Dark Horror Fest (DVD)

I'm not a big fan of the Horrorfest films, even though I wish I was. I saw a lot of 2006's (I only liked `The Hamiltons' of what I saw... and it was just 'ok') and I think Borderland is the only one I've watched for the year 2007. Borderland is definitely the best of all the Horrorfest that I've seen so far. Now don't go hitting that 'BUY' button just yet...hear me out first.

Borderland is 'inspired' on a true event that happened down in Mexico. Basically a drug bust happened, cops found human remains in cauldrons and mass graves. The drug guys said human sacrifices to their God (or whatever it was) made them invisible (I'm guessing to make it easier to smuggle drugs). So saying that, I'm sure you can tell where this movie is going, but I'll continue.

So we got 3 teenage boys that are about to head to college. Before they do, they want to head to Mexico for a few days and party and find some hookers. In doing so, they come across a whore house with a pretty bartendress and one of our boys falls for her. Another one actually falls for a hooker, which has a kid, which his friend paid 80 bucks for him to sleep with. Now you are probably thinking, "OH MAN THEY ARE HARLOTS! They are evil and MAKING these guys fall in love with them by magic or voooodoooo" Nope, your wrong. They are just idiots. So later on, they decide to hang out at a Fair with the bartendress and her cousin, do some shrooms and weed, and go for some rides. After awhile, our boy who fell in love with the actual hooker wins her a stuff animal and decides to leave the group and go back to the whore house and give it to her. They let him go (alone) and on the way there, he gets picked up by some bad dudes, and doesn't make it to see his new love. The rest of the crew start looking for him, to only find out that they are now involved with a pretty bad gang of drug lords. Will they be able to rescue their friend and get out of Mexico in one piece? Well... it's a Horrorfest film so what do you think?!

There wasn't a lot of gore, which doesn't have to be a bad thing, but what gore there was, was good. I liked the beginning with the cop. There were hot chicks here and there (I liked the main bad dude's girl... YUM), but no nudity (see through white shirt on main bad dudes girl though!). The acting was ok. But seriously, the 3 guys were well into their late 20's, yet they were supposed to be teenagers getting ready to go to college? (*EDIT*..ok I'm guessing they were in their early twenties since they just graduated college, and I'm guessing heading to medical school or something like that). Also one of the henchmen had a dome that could've held two brains. Seriously he looked like an old comic character called Leader that the Incredible Hulk used to fight. I would NOT want to be head butted by that guy. And another main bad guy looked like a psychotic mix between Ice-T, Ludacris, and Pedro (from Napoleon Dynamite). Weird. Oh and Sean Astin (the guy who played Rudy in 'Rudy', and he played Sam, the hobbit that was Frodo's lover in 'Lord of the Rings') played a pretty good role here. The funny thing is though... it seemed like he filmed this and his part in '50 First Dates' at the same time. Because he had a backwards hat, a sea shell necklace, and a tank top on....AND...he spoke with a lisp sometimes.

In the end, I would recommend a rent, but only if there isn't much out there to watch.

11 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Borderland, January 2, 2008

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Sarah L. Hilligas "babyboneforks" (Grand Island, NE USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Borderland [Theatrical Release] (Theatrical Release)

Borderland was a great movie. One of the better of horrorfest '07. Great cast and presents a few surprises, even for the jaded horror movie buff. Overall, definitely worth checking out.

6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Borderland, March 24, 2008

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Clinton Enlow (Kansas) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Borderland - After Dark Horror Fest (DVD)

Another year and another set of DVDs from the Afterdark Horrorfest. Last years crop had two or three films I was interested in and the films this year didn't seem to be my thing, until I had heard of Borderland and the true story behind the movie. If you look up the story on the internet you can find a fascinating story of a cult of drug peddlers that killed over sixty-three men in voodoo ritual that involved sodomy, torture and dismemberment. Mixing with the criminal nature of the cult and to me its fascinating. And Zev Berman the filmmaker behind Borderland was just as fascinated with the story integrating it into his own Hostel storyline. On the DVD He states how he became involved with the story after he and some friends were pulled over trying to enter Mexico with some voodoo paraphenalia decorating their bus.
The story as it goes is basic horror film fare, very much in the vein of Hostel in a way. Three friends bound for college go on a road trip for the vices that they can find on the border between Mexico and America. On friend Ed hooks up with a bartender Valeria and the group goes off to eat Mushrooms and party at a carnival. Therein a member decides to split after the trip starts going bad and on the way back to the hotel He gets kidnapped by the cultists who are looking for an American to use in their ritual. When the remaining friends awake the next day they go in search of their missing friend and instead find a town where the cops don't much care when people go missing (after a policeman was dismembered alive in the opening) and cult members wanting them to disappear.
Like I said the film is very reminiscent of other horror films plotlines. The three friends themselves follow very generic and cliched stereotypes with the badboy hardcase, the sensitive hero, and the goofy young religious type who enters the picture with a target on his chest. The acting is servicable at best meeting the demands of the movie and my only other complaint is against the director using an overcranked camera to film most of it. But still the cult itself was a fasciinating thing that added depth to the movie. These weren't the business men of Hostel or the cannibal rednecks of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre but a real group of disturbed people that followed a charasmatic leader in doing the most horrible things possible believing that they were invincible to the world. This part of the movie worked for the better of the movie.
As for the DVD itself its put together well with the commentary and a twenty minute making of feature. The best feature of the disc was featurette with the lead detective who investigated the initial disappearnce of the American college student that lead to investigation of the cult. They intersperse his commentary with video shot of the actual cult members being interogated while they lead police around the ranch where the murders took place and dig up bodies. One strange thing, they change the name of the victim while you can easily find the mans name on the internet. Still check out the movie. Its easily one of the better offerings from the second Afterdark series this year.