Borderland (2007)

Borderland (2007)
Director: Zev Berman
Writers: Zev Berman, Eric Poppen
Three Texas University seniors, on the eve of their graduation, road-trip to a Mexican Border town for a final weekend of drinking and debauchery. Their vacation becomes a living nightmare as the trio runs afoul of an ancient blood cult looking for human sacrifice.

'Another After Dark Horror Festival film the plot follows three American university students whom while on a Mexican break encounter a cult doing human sacrifices’. The youngest member of the party who is there basically to lose his virginity gets kidnapped. The older two alongside a local girl they've hitched up with and a cop who’s been tracking the cult, try to stop them. Without a doubt one of the better horror fest films though whether it deserves horror status is questionable, it’s more an action thriller. That said it’s a damned fine tense ride. Great looking visually, coming across very much like Soderbergh's Traffic. Plots meant to be based on a true story and as really well done character development and good acting (I especially liked Sean Astin who delivered a darkly humorous performance as Randall the cults only north of the border member). Well worth a view.'

(Rated 7½ out of 10)