Borderland
The film follows Ed, Henry and Phil, three American college graduates in search of wild times in Mexico. On a trip to a border town, they stumble upon a human-sacrifice cult.
11 March 1982, St. Louis, Missouri, USA
17 April 1970, Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico
11 December 1979, San Francisco, California, USA
25 February 1971, Santa Monica, California, USA
13 November 1970, Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico
18 January 1974, Mexico, Distrito Federal, Mexico
8 January 1953, Jiquilpan, Michoacan, Mexico
18 August 1977, Midland, Texas, USA
10 September 1978, Twisp, Washington, USA
27 October 1962, Veracruz, Mexico
24 August 1983, Villahermosa, Tabasco, Mexico
23 June 1978, Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico
12 September 1967, Santiago de Chile, Chile
January 16, 2011
Borderland teeters between a torture film and a spiritual thriller, but it also plays around with both genres in very intriguing ways.
June 25, 2007
Every once in awhile, a film can defy expectations, and Lionsgate's Borderland is one such case.
March 20, 2007
Berman balances the weight of the actual events with the desire to mount a simply effective horror story, and I think he pulls it off quite well.
November 18, 2007
...ultimately descends into a brutal orgy of torture and mutilation that's harrowing to watch, because it's played completely real.
September 03, 2008
...one can't help but admire any film that features a villain with a penchant for saying things like "I'll decorate my bedroom wall with your skin"...
November 10, 2007
An unnerving, ruthless, borderline-mesmerizing thriller.
July 09, 2008
Borderland takes this libertarian view of paradise (no law, no government, just rich people doing what they want) and turns it on its head in a particularly brutal and ugly way, without expressing a political point of view in a heavy-handed way.
