The reason so many people don't like this film is because it is so unusual. Absent are most of the staple qualities that movies "must have" like plot, tension/suspense, character development, build up, conclusion. and so on. What this flick is really is nothing but a glimpse into the lives and actions of three serial killers, and it doesn't pretend to be anything more than that. It is just showing you what they do and why they do it.
Three strange individuals have formed a killing pact whose goal is to commit the most number of murders as possible. It consists of one woman and two men. The pact functions as a machine with each doing his or her special part. The woman lures the girls out to the remote house, the guy who looks like Drew Carey kills them, and the last fellow dressed as a magician buries them.
The characters are well defined and well explained, each having his or her own reason for doing what they do, and the acting is adequate. The Drew Carey look-alike is truly creepy and scary as the sadistic killer. He spends most of his time just walking around swatting flies and cutting up bugs and cactus's LOL! That is until some unsuspecting female victim wanders in! A truly horrible and memorable character there! The film employs the same harsh and grainy footage as most of Lommels films, which I quite like because it lends immediacy to the subject matter. The script is minimal and quite poetic at times. There is much use of special effects in the editing which gives the film a sort of nightmare-like quality.
My only criticism is that the gore isn't too well done, it seems to have been done cheaply with nothing but red dye. You don't really see any flesh wounds, perhaps the effects are too expensive for the production. But it doesn't really focus on the gore anyway, it is more interested in examining the relationship between the three lead characters. They don't like each other much, they all just depend upon each other for the completion of their awful project. The scene where they are all sitting in cold-blooded silence at the dinner table together is memorable.
On another note I believe it is Nola Roeper who plays the part of the female lead character. She has been a regular in Lommels previous films. However in this film she seems to have lost a lot of weight, and now looks absolutely gorgeous! Good on her! I think that the movie is fictitious but I am not sure.
All in all Borderline Cult is a very dark and creepy experience.
Three strange individuals have formed a killing pact whose goal is to commit the most number of murders as possible. It consists of one woman and two men. The pact functions as a machine with each doing his or her special part. The woman lures the girls out to the remote house, the guy who looks like Drew Carey kills them, and the last fellow dressed as a magician buries them.
The characters are well defined and well explained, each having his or her own reason for doing what they do, and the acting is adequate. The Drew Carey look-alike is truly creepy and scary as the sadistic killer. He spends most of his time just walking around swatting flies and cutting up bugs and cactus's LOL! That is until some unsuspecting female victim wanders in! A truly horrible and memorable character there! The film employs the same harsh and grainy footage as most of Lommels films, which I quite like because it lends immediacy to the subject matter. The script is minimal and quite poetic at times. There is much use of special effects in the editing which gives the film a sort of nightmare-like quality.
My only criticism is that the gore isn't too well done, it seems to have been done cheaply with nothing but red dye. You don't really see any flesh wounds, perhaps the effects are too expensive for the production. But it doesn't really focus on the gore anyway, it is more interested in examining the relationship between the three lead characters. They don't like each other much, they all just depend upon each other for the completion of their awful project. The scene where they are all sitting in cold-blooded silence at the dinner table together is memorable.
On another note I believe it is Nola Roeper who plays the part of the female lead character. She has been a regular in Lommels previous films. However in this film she seems to have lost a lot of weight, and now looks absolutely gorgeous! Good on her! I think that the movie is fictitious but I am not sure.
All in all Borderline Cult is a very dark and creepy experience.
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