Borderline Cult (2007 Video)
2/10
Exploitation without a plot...
22 August 2007
Warning: Spoilers
So... let's see... We've got a serial killer that looks like Drew Carey and is just about as scary, one female accomplice that lures in the female victims, and another accomplice that buries the victims in about two inches of dirt then marks the graves with a cross and a bloodied up piece of clothing... You'd think this grave yard might scare the victims off, or at least draw someone's attention… but no. I guess that's because the only people who are wandering around in this part of the desert are attractive young women who all become murder victims. Their hide out is in the desert, and amazingly, about half of the attractive female victims, on foot, happen to wander up to the hide out for no apparent reason, only to be tortured to death. On the occasional days that no attractive young women happen to stumble onto the hide out, the female accomplice goes into town and cons a cute young female into coming back to the ranch to be tortured to death. This happens over and over and over again. Not only is there not a single twist in the entire screenplay, but they actually show flashes of what is going to happen to the women as they approach, so you already know what's going to happen to them before they've been captured. Well… there is one minor exception to this pattern… One woman, instead of being killed right away, is held captive in the chicken coop, where, to pass the time, she takes off her shoes and dances around in chicken poop. Yeah… That's what I'd do in that situation… The editing has WAY too many special effects which is very distracting and even annoying at times. This is probably an effort by the editor to compensate for a lack of usable footage since the cinematography is pretty bad throughout the film and not shot in a manner that would allow for good continuity, particularly when they're shooting scenes of violence. The gore FX are very bad. They just put blood where severe injuries such as stabbing and mutilation had been inflicted on the victims. For the ending, in spite of the fact that the tag line on the DVD cover reads "…420 victims and counting," the threesome simply decide that 420 is a good number, so that's where they're going to stop… at 420… because it's a good number… Oooooookay… I'm really amazed that Lions Gate would be willing to distribute such a poorly made film
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