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Borderland (2007)

Borderland poster
Directed by
Zev Berman
Genre
horror film, slasher film, crime film
Country
Mexico, United States
Runtime
1h 42m
Rated
R
Rating
5.5 of 10 from 252 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

Three American friends go on a road trip to Mexico for a wild spring break. They cross paths with a drug lord and his religious cult who kidnap one of them for a human sacrifice ceremony.

tensebleakdarkdisturbingslow-burngrungyviolentunsettling

What happens

Borderland is a 2007 horror film written and directed by Zev Berman. It is loosely based on the true story of Adolfo de Jesús Constanzo, a drug lord and the leader of a religious cult that practiced human sacrifice. Constanzo and his followers, called the Narco-satanists, kidnapped and murdered The University of Texas junior Mark J. Kilroy in the spring of 1989. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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