I don't have to go into depth with the overly simplistic plot. The story follows a trio of serial killers working together to kill women in Juarez, Mexico. Melanie lures the women to their home in the hills, Herbert J. Humbert the third kills the women, and Jean-Louis digs a grave and buries the women. This takes place around eight times in the film. The only other scenes that occur: Two visits to a fortune teller, a video diary for each of the three killers and LONG shots of silent staring. If an award was given for "Best Use of Staring," "Borderline Cult" would be victorious.

The fun doesn't stop there folks. The directing by Ulli Lommel and the editing by XGin makes me yearn for crummy student films and Uwe Boll productions. I didn't think it was humanely possible, but Borderline's cuts are quicker and more frequent than any Michael Bay flick. Your head is guaranteed to spin as the whirlwind of cuts assault your eyes non-stop until the final frame. As for Lommel's directing, I have to wonder who on Earth finances his films. His direction has no style. He doesn't elicit any emotion with the characters or any scene for that matter. He recycles everything in a repetitive cycle. You are basically watching an eight minute film drug out to a tediously long 81 minutes. And yet Lummel continues to make films to this day. To quote "South Park"- "It does not make sense!"

The DVD

Video:
The widescreen 1.78:1 format is as repugnant as the movie itself. The color scheme was overly bright and murky. I realize viewers were meant to see Mexico as it is, but that's no excuse for the Bootleg esque quality. The video was also so jumpy and grainy that it came to the point where I began to feel dizzy and ill. Have the Pepto handy dare you watch.

Sound: The 2.0 Stereo Audio track will drive you nuts. The dialogue comes off as a whisper half the time as the music score and sound of buzzing flies (don't ask) blare through the speakers at full force. I was tempted to press the mute button because the fly noises played for at least half of the film. Were the filmmakers intentionally trying to drive viewers to the mental ward?

Extras: It figures that one of the worst films would contain extras to cause further suffering. The disk includes a trailer gallery for other Lionsgate films, a "Borderline Cult" trailer, five minutes of bonus footage, a stills gallery and an audio commentary with Nola Roeper, Christian Behm, and Ulli Lommel. The commentary is ridiculously amusing. It's fun to hear the director defend and analyze his one dimensional characters. Most of the time, out of boredom or nothing to say, the three talk about random topics such as how they loved "300." It just goes to show how simplistic and trashy this movie is when the creative team can't even talk about their own film. The most disturbing fact revealed in the commentary, however, is the fact that Roeper and Lommel said they made 7 films in 7 months. I can only hope I don't review another Lommel disk ever again.

Final Thoughts:
A mere SKIP IT rating is too generous. If given the option, I would rate "Borderline Cult" as a film so nauseating and eye gougingly bad that you will want to take a shower immediately following the ending. This is the type of film that would loop for eternity in hell. For the love of cinema, avoid this film.

Film and television enthusiast Nick Lyons recently had his first book published titled "Attack of the Sci-Fi Trivia." It is available on Amazon.com.