Beto Cuevas, Brian Presley, Damián Alcázar

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R, 1 hr. 45 min.

Directed by: Zev Berman

Release Date: November 9, 2007

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DVD Release Date: March 18, 2008

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  • July 31, 2008
    Not half bad. Interesting story and well-filmed, even though it's not anywhere near as gut-wrenchingly gory as many are claiming. Good times.
  • May 30, 2008
    It is difficult to rate this movie. It is billed as a horror film and based upon true life events. The watered down blend comes up lacking something in both genres.
    The premise is based upon the real life Santiera practitioners in Mexico. Torture is a staple in their rituals ...( read more)as screams appease their "gods" and the brutality is evident, but while the base in reality made this a bit more horrifying they took it too far in that direction and left out too much of the "horror."
    The torture is real enough, but culled down. The "soulless" minions are very earthbound. The message of what man will perpetrate upon man in the name of his "god" is there, but gets lost in the mire.
    Had they depicted the slaughters more intensely and, to be frank, really put more into the gore and fear and not toned it down it would have been a real fright.
    It earns decent marks for the acting and for its reality based premise (and yes, Sean Astin does well as a bad guy), but it was just not chilling enough.
    I need more fright from the "8 films to die for" category and this one did not give that to me.
    Still, a decent watch, but not as a true "horror" film.
  • April 5, 2008
    Another pointless tortured American tourists movie. This one doesn't even try to scare. Have to endure seventy minutes of drivel only to discover that they're gonna have the main baddie naked but NOT give a good butt or dangler shot? Screw that. There weren't even any memorable t...( read more)its in this either. Not to mention that it wasn't scary, and this is supposedly a horror movie. I watched this just before I watched Turistas, and the two sort of blended together until I mentally separated in my mind the decent from the mediocre and annoying, all of this movie falling in the latter category. Borderland: go there for shitty movies.
  • March 11, 2008
    In the vain of hostel and not as gory.
    There are a few shock sence and found the beginning a bit slow but over all not a bad little film.Sean astin pop up in the film which surprise me and really did'nt do much.
  • December 16, 2008
    Well Out of the 8 Films To Die For 2008 Collection This is one of the best and most intense out of the ones I have seen so far. If you get pass the first scene they you got it made. Plop Plop Fizz Fizz oh what an Eye Ball That Is. This one has some slashing in it. A Good additio...( read more)n to a Horror Party Weekend / Film Fest, Remember to invite me, but leave tha Machette's at home. Add it to my collection.
  • October 8, 2009
    Not disturbing if you don't think about it.
  • October 6, 2009
    A cross between a true story and a horror, reasonable storyline, adequate effort for a straight to DVD film. It was strange to see Sean Astin in this film, I felt he might have been better in one of the other roles.
  • September 25, 2009
    dis is based on true events...
    i wanted 2 go 2 Mexico...
    but chotto kowai na...
  • July 27, 2009
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  • July 18, 2009
    Basically a Hostel rip-off. Borderland is just another porn torture wannabe that deals with the typical clichés, for example the three american guys. The story is quite interesting and the gore effects are great, but this the movie we have seen so many times. T
    ...( read more)heres no surprise in it.

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