The Borderlands (2015)

Good , But It Is Overrated By Some

best movie i've ever seen.

While it is a pity that the story wasn't told with more visual finesse, this is trivial compared to our real-world problems. It takes a good movie to put that into perspective.

It is a whirlwind of delight --- attractive actors, stunning couture, spectacular sets and outrageous parties.

I was looking for a found footage film to watch that would let me regain my respect for directors who are practitioners of the art.This was pretty good in terms of cinematography. The footage wasn't artificially jiggly or fuzzy or thrown around like a basketball. In fact at times it wasn't obvious at all. Usually there's some device to let you know where you are watching from, like a counter or CAM1 etc. But most shots were pretty clear and the POV swapped between the characters in an understandable way.The most effective tension mechanism was the villagers. Dour, sullen and uncommunicative. This could have been used more effectively and should have been ramped up progressively.The ending in the caves is horrifying. I was an underground miner so I'm not claustrophobic. But the way they get stuck is... - I'll say no more. Good ending. Wish I had watched it in the dark.

I'm glad i watched this on BBC iPlayer and didn't waste a trip to the cinema. It was embarrassingly badly acted. The story line was promising but didn't deliver. The filming technique was disorientating and annoying. It was full of horror clichés but done badly. I didn't like the "unfriendly locals" stereotype. The Tech character was an excruciating caricature of a Tech bloke. It would have worked better if we could have seen the wires and the whole thing had been filmed as a spoof documentary.

So-called "found footage" movie making annoys me. It is disorientating, head ache inducing and, in my experience has absolutely NOTHING in its favour. It is completely repellent. The idiotic, too close framing and jittering do absolutely nothing to make a movie more convincing or "feel real". Everything about this ill-considered fad is awful and absolutely nothing is good. After only a couple of minutes, I was tempted to walk out and, having sat through this boring garbage to the bitter, pointless end, I really wished I had. Putting the jittery camera work completely to one side, the "story" was so weak and unconvincing as to be barely existent. I didn't give a flying one for any of the characters and the end was a total flop. There were no saving graces. I have seen a huge number of horror films and this was one of the most disappointing, mainly because hopes were raised too high by overly enthusiastic, self-indulgent scribes who are far too easily impressed by pretentious, vacuous, utterly pointless nonsense.

The Borderlands is one of the better found-footage films that has come out of late, and is one of the best British horror films to come out in a seriously long time.Initially a little unconvincing, and with a slightly irritating character played by Robin Hill, it may take a short while to settle into. But as events unfold and things get darker, I guarantee you will be glued to the screen, as creepy and sinister becomes terrifying and horrific. The acting is great, the tension never falters, and the ending is one of the nastiest to feature in a horror film in years. A good film.