Anthony El-megerhi 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 :) .

bowmanblue '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).

t_atzmueller For those familiar with the case of the Adolfo de Jesus Constanzo and the „Matamoros"-killings, you might probably agree that it had been one of the most bizarre and shocking cases from that period in time. It had everything that would eventually make a riveting movie: crime, drug-dealer cartels, black magic (a hotchpotch of Christianity, Voodoo and Palo Mayombe), human sacrifice and more sadism then the average mind would feel comfortable with. Having read a fair share about the case, I had waited and rooted for an adaptation and this adaptation came 2007 with "Borderland".Naturally, in times of "Saw", "Turistas" and similar "Torture-Porn", making a straight thriller or Slasher would not suffice (nor would it have done reality justice). "Borderland" starts promising, suspenseful and very brutal. Then it moves into familiar territory: a group of party-hungry American youngsters go across the border and soon fall into the crowd of the bad guys.In essence, to make a cut above the rest, the movie would have had to concentrate on the antagonists rather than the tourists (all of which are portrayed as stereotypical and, concerning acting skills, forgettable as can possibly be, I might add). Indeed, "Borderland" had a colorful and interesting band of antagonists, like the creepy Gustavo (Marco Bacuzzi), tattooed cult-leader Santillan (Beto Cuevas) or the menacing "Ghost Rider" (Wilebardo Bucio), who appears in a few scene and is never really seen again. Sadly, the movie never digs deeper into those characters, giving us no background story, in the end killing them all off rather unspectacular.What's left is an average, run-of-the-mill torture-porn with a few grisly effects, no more than many other "Hostel"-clones and many wasted opportunities. Hence, we'll have to wait for the movie that will tackle the horrible story of "Matamoros" adequately.4/10 points is the maximum I can give for this. A note and recommendation to those interested in the "Matamoros"-case would be "Perdita Durango". Though the film isn't actually based on the crime itself, Javier Bardem plays a Palo Mayombe priest-cum-gangster, that comes much closer to the Santillan of "Borderland)

dushyant chaturvedi This movie is meant only for the mentally disturbed. I went for the movie knowing its story line and expecting no Academy stuff. I knew this was a movie where the omnipresent American hitchhikers encounter a "human-sacrificing cult". I knew there was going to be gore and cheap thrills. What i didn't knew was how boring it would all be. Three friends go to Mexico to do the "usual" things: get high, get laid. but one of them is kidnapped by the aforementioned cult because the head honcho of the cult believes that Satan would be pleased if they sacrifice some one after torturing the poor soul. the pleased Satan would enable their drugs to pass into the United States by making the drugs invisible to the custom officers. I mean, what the f**k where the script writers thinking? this must be the lamest excuse for the gore. As for the gore and blood, the best sequence which is truly hair raising is one in which one of the friends is chased through the length of the hotel in which he is staying by a machete wielding mob. The rest of the scenes are just pathetic. The director tries to give some back story so that we can "connect and identify" with the lame ass characters. but they still come across as clichéd. So kindly watch something else. Anything as long as it is not Borderland. For the lovers of violence, there still is no movie better than Martyrs. This pretentious sh*t is just that. a pretender. nothing more.