Really Surprised!

Memorable, crazy movie

I enjoyed watching this film and would recommend other to give it a try , (as I am) but this movie, although enjoyable to watch due to the better than average acting fails to add anything new to its storyline that is all too familiar to these types of movies.

An old-fashioned movie made with new-fashioned finesse.

First of all i like to elucidate whom the ratings go for , 1 for Jake Muxworthy , he really worth the star since i don't see that Brian Presley did better performance , and 1 for Martha Higareda merely because she's gorgeous , and the remaining three for the costume designer ,and the makeup department for the exquisite work they made to make the Spanish actors "henchmen" to look scary . Initially , i was expecting to see a better suspenseful horror movie and that because of the frightening begging ,but soon later i've discovered that it was disappointing , but to be honest! my speculations even before i watch the movie were like the views i got after i've done watching it , for one reason , which is the director 'Zen Berman' is inexperienced ,and a beginner filmmaker , The only movie he directed that worth mentioning is 'Briar Patch' he won prize for it in Houston international film festival probably he achieved it by virtue of good screen writing by 'Deborah Pryor' i mean it was easy directing it as i reckon , but anyways this movie Highlighted and focused on the true story of the drug dealer "Constanzo" and his gory rituals that the scenarist ascribed it to the Palo religion , therefor, i'd like to demonstrate something which is that palo has many denominations and non of it has such a brutal rituals , i mean they do rituals include sacrificing but not with human blood, he invented it, i guess constanzo learned it from his Voodoo teacher in his trip to Haiti , finally i'd like to inform that names in the movie weren't like the names of the real people in the true event , and the way constanzo got killed in the film , wasn't like the real reason of his death in real life , because in reality , he committed a suicide . Thank you for reading this :) .

'Compact' is the word I'd use to describe Borderland. It doesn't offer anything revolutionary which will blow your mind, but, if you're a fan of the genre, you should find it satisfying.It follows the (familiar) story of X good-looking young Americans, travelling to X and running into trouble in the form of X. Sometimes these packs of good-looking young Americans are girls, sometimes boys, other time a mixed group. Sometimes they travel to a remote town in America, sometimes a remote town in Europe. Once they get to where they're going, they run into trouble in the form of zombie/vampires/ghosts/rednecks/cannibals - choose your 'nasty.' In this instance, three lads travel to Mexico and get mixed up with... well, you'll have to watch it to find out.Like I say, the story is pretty generic. I've seen plenty of these sorts of movies (you can probably tell by my cynical tone), but this one is pretty reasonable. The protagonists aren't (completely) unlikeable, don't do (too many) stupid things and you can basically root for their plight.If you like this sort of film, give it a go. Trust me, there are many worse than this (and I've sat through almost every last one of them).

Three high school friends head to Mexico in search of women and a lot of drinking before they start college. Henry (Muxworthy) is your typical A-hole, urging his virgin friend Phil (Strong) to go get laid and making fun of his other friend Ed (Presley) who wants to do volunteer work and help others. Henry makes unenlightened statements like "Fuck the Poor" and the audience can't wait for him to die. Phil takes the stupid advice and gets abducted by a devil cult that plans on sacrificing him to their God. When Ed and Henry go to the authorities for help, they learn that the cult is also drug traffickers so no help will be coming. The two friends join up with a local woman Ed has fallen for named Valeria (Higareda) and an ex-cop (Damian Alcarzar) whose partner was brutally killed by the cult in the opening scene of the film, to try and rescue Phil. 'Borderland' tries to disguise that it isn't a torture porn movie but in the end that is what it is. Very little background is given about the cult so the motives are unknown. They're really just a bunch of thugs who torture and kill for the sake of it, which is how the script makes them appear. The movie is successful at building a sense of dread, but Writer/Director Zev Berman is more interested in making the audience squirm at the violence and torture than building any real suspense or fear. Disgusting set pieces is what is delivered from the unwatchable cop torture that begins the movie to the fate of Phil's character. The film is well made and has a good cast, it is the script and film makers that fail to make this anything scary. This is for fans of torture porn only.

Three libidinous college dudes from Texas head to Mexico to party, only to find that their bravado and swagger get the attention of a vicious satanic cult that also deals in drugs. It's a dark, dreary story premise transferred to screen through irritatingly revved-up action and lots of gore. Though the script borrowed its idea from the real-life Matamoros Cult Killings of 1989, the film offers very little narrative realism.Our three youthful gringos are all jerks. None of them are worth caring about. They make one stupid mistake after another; but that keeps the plot moving. Character stereotypes abound. The script's first ten pages or so could have been condensed into about three. Plot structure is chaotic. And we never get a sense of where in Mexico we are. A few references to "Mexico City" confuse, it being nowhere near the American border. The "border" seems to refer to anywhere along the two thousand mile stretch of land between Tijuana and Matamoros. But who cares about facts when there's so much visual torture to gawk at ...Cinematography trends dark. That jerky camera gets annoying rather quickly. Background music is highly manipulative. Acting skill is largely irrelevant. What counts here is the ability of a performer, helped along by the makeup and costumes department, to look suitably grungy and/or bloody. As such, these "actors" do a fine job.Though the film advertises itself as based on a real event, that real event involved only one college guy, not three. And the lack of geographic specificity renders the entire production overly generalized. I was expecting a film that stayed closer to the facts of the 1989 incident, not a horror story that looks and feels more fictional than real.