Review of Borderland (2007) by Rodney S — 09 Oct 2009

Another movie from the After Dark series, and it's definitely one of the most memorable. The reviews have been pretty much favorable on this extremely brutal movie, which is somewhat based on a true story, making it even more vicious .

Three buddies take off for a border town in Mexico, and one of them gets kidnapped by a cult of satanic Mexican drug smugglers who kill tourists and whom are looking for a group of new ones to prepare for a sacrifice.

This is the unrated version, and it even made me cringe in a few spots, the whole idea of being chopped to death by machetes has always seemed to me to be one of the most brutal ways of dying I can think of.

Rider Strong (Cabin Fever) is the buddy that gets kidnapped and held and prepared for a sacrifice, and the actual sacrifice towards the end of the movie is hair raising difficult to watch. Nothing is much held back in this movie, it's almost like a recent French horror movie that takes place in Mexico.

The relentless and genuinely shocking brutality is far more than I was expecting. I liked the movie a lot, but it's not for anybody faint of heart. In a way, parts of the movie reminded me a lot of MARTYRS.