Borderline Cult

BORDERLINE CULT opens with two drunk women staggering around. We learn that one of them is part of a trio of murdering maniacs. The non-crazy woman is tortured and killed by a bald man in Drew Carey's old glasses. There's also a voodoo dude in a top hat.

Another female is lured to her doom.

Then, a tarot card reading by a woman with a sprayed-on tan, more mindless murder, etc.

This is a totally nonsensical movie of "rinse and repeat" slaughter. Three weirdoes and the women they annihilate. It's lazy filmmaking at its most idiotic, with any semblance of a plot discarded in favor of one dumb scene of violence after another.

Roll credits...

Story Synopsis: A fictionalised account of what was responsible for the deaths of more than 400 women, mainly prostitutes & tourists, in the US / Mexican border town of Juarez. Three shady characters team up to kill as many victims as they can. With them in the area, nobody is safe.

Film Analysis: This is yet another of the staggering number of cheap horror films made by former German New Wave legend turned Hollywood hackmeister Ulli Lommel. As is the case with practically all of his post-millennial works, he takes a true story – in this case the mysterious force killing hundreds of women in the US / Mexican border town of Juarez – & uses it to mount an abstract film.

Borderline Cult is one of Lommel's better films, although strictly mediocre. There is not much to the film than three despicable characters luring female victims to an isolated spot in the hills & killing them. That's all you're going to get & Lommel keeps things going by using all the tricks he's learned after decades making art-house films in his native Germany & cheap hackwork in the States. It is like watching a zombie rise from the grave & stagger about with no real aim other than pure instinct. That is how the film feels to me.

The acting is disturbingly good – Christian Behm makes quite an impression as the intelligent brute who enjoys killing women & has a habit of comparing parts of his life to history's worst killings. He has made acting appearances in most of Lommel's post-millennial films & outdoes himself here. It is a shame that the film isn't entirely up to scratch. Also making an appearance is producer Nola Roeper, who appears as a fortune teller.

In circumstances like this, I wouldn't even use the DVD case of this film to level out the legs on my couch. There are more problems with this movie than I count.

Considering that it is based on a true story even makes it worse. Yes there are over 400+ murders in Cuidad Juarez just below El Paso Texas in Mexico. However, it is not the same person, and the ages of the victims range from 11-36. Real woman who were raped and murdered. Not just tortured. Those are real women who died brutally. To Blasphamy their lives and deaths making a worthless grotesque depiction of it with this film is just an atrocity.

The acting is absolutely terrible, the directing is pure garbage, (looks like it was shot with a home video) and the dialog, what little of it their was, was like a 3rd grader wrote it.

This was a pure example of a film being made, just to pull undeserved cash from your wallet.

Do yourselves a favor and do not watch this film. I wish there was a zero on the vote scale because I gave it too much credit giving it a one.

absolute crap!

It's a good thing that I didn't buy this DVD. I rent it for .50 cents and it is not even worth 50 cents. It is not even worth it being on the shelf or being exist at all. All it is, a pure torture one after another. No plot, no stories, no nothing... I can't believe I waste my time watching this movie all the way through. I was waiting to see what happen at the end like hopefully these dumbbells to be arrested. They dun' goofed up MAJOR times! 420 Times... We get the message. Don't get me wrong. SAW Trilogy is a FAR better movie this this crappy movie. The story behind SAW has points and purpose. This movie.... Ummm. None. I'm not usually put hate in the movie but this one set me off. I have seen a lot of movies and there are some that I don't like and rate as 1 but it wasn't as BAD as this film.

So take my word. DO NOT WATCH/RENT THIS MOVIE!

I immediately destroyed the DVD as soon as it ended. Bad. So bad. I can't believe how bad it was. Really, really bad. I honestly would have rather been at work. Plot...bad Acting...bad Story...bad No Boobs...Very Very bad Only symbolism: the credits at the end moved as slowly as the film. The guy who gave the movie a 7/10 is retarded. The end. IMDb has too many guidelines to post a comment. I just want to say how bad I hate this movie but it says I need more lines. So now, I'm typing randomly. I'm angry. And tired. I want to go to bed. But this movie is so bad that I have to keep typing. It's principle. My night is ruined. If I had a wife, I would make angry love to her. But I don't :(. this movie is bad, bad bad. Screw you IMDb. Here's 10 lines for you. Bad.