Product Details

• Actors: Vic Perrin, Bob Johnson, Ben Wright, Robert Culp, Robert Duvall
• Format: Black & White, NTSC
• Rated: NR (Not Rated)
• Number of tapes: 1
• Studio: MGM (Video & DVD)
• VHS Release Date: September 1, 1998
• Run Time: 51 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 2.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• ASIN: 630196750X
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #441,774 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars lacklustre, December 17, 2000

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Peter Shelley "petershelley" (Sydney, New South Wales Australia) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Outer Limits: Borderland [VHS] (VHS Tape)

This is one of the few episodes written and directed by series executive producer Leslie Stevens. Like his Production and Decay of Strange Particles, this also centres on a lone scientist on a quest, this time to cross-over into the fourth dimension otherwise known as the Borderland. However Stevens gets so bogged down in the clunky mechanics of the experiment that when we get to the possibility of the cross-over it is a huge disappointment. Theatrics pile up with a swamp of character agendas, some pretty poor special effects - the images of the Borderland in particular (a wasteland which doesn't support a plot point of a man believing his son is there), and composer Dominic Frontiere's infamous crescendo. When the scientist played by arch Mark Richman continually calls out "Eva! Eva!!"to his wife (Nina Foch) it is unintentionally funny because it prefigures Evita. The standard of performance is pretty low, with a special nod to the ghastly Alfred Ryder who plays his villian as if he has had a stroke. This episode was the first filmed in the first series after the pilot The Galaxy Being, but it's broadcast was delayed for 6 months, and you'll know why. The only reason to rate it higher than a dud like Tourist Attraction, is that I found the opening image of the swirl of magnetised particles hypnotic and unexplained in the Official Companion, Richman's scientist having 2 right hands after his first attempt at cross-over (though the mutation is conveniently and amusingly concealed later on), and the fact that it features no "bear" ie monster that the ABC networkers demanded.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Visually Dynamic, Weakly Written, March 26, 2002

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Bruce Rux (Aurora, CO) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Outer Limits: Borderland [VHS] (VHS Tape)

At his weakest, series executive producer Leslie Stevens' scripts were talky and unconvincing. This is one of those scripts. However, even in those talky and unconvincing scripts, the visual effects were usually pretty striking. And here, they're pretty striking.

What sinks this episode is technical-sounding doubletalk, and a lot of it. Stevens' speculations about the nature of the afterlife, and the science of metaphysics, are genuinely interesting. If he could have stuck more to the point, he would have been more effective.

Still, the sets are impressive (the series blew a lot of its budget early on, ironically on its lesser shows), the visual effects are truly eye-catching, and the finale is actually quite dramatically satisfying and even moving.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars The power of science, May 11, 1999

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Thomas Rucki (Paris, France) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Outer Limits: Borderland [VHS] (VHS Tape)

"The mind of man has always longed to know what lies beyond the world we live in. Explorers have ventured into the depths and heights. Of these explorers, some are scientists, some are mystics. Each is driven by a different purpose. The one thing they share in common is a wish to cross the borderlands that lie beyond the Outer Limits..." By accident, a group of scientists discovered a doorway to a parrallel universe. A budget-buster episode with first-class special effects, impressive lab sets and smart cinematography (watch the low angle shot of the scientists and the close-ups of Mark Richman) which is an intended pilot for a new sci-fi series. The actors are great and dignified in their fanatic scientists parts and make this episode very exciting to watch. Here is some real stylish technological SCIENCE-fiction and my favourite Leslie Stevens episode among "The galaxy being", "Controlled experiment" and "Production and decay of strange particles". "There are worlds beyond the worlds within which the explorer must explore. But there is one power which seems to transcend space and time, life and death. It is a deeply human power which holds us safe and together when all otherforces combine to tear us apart. We call it the power of love."