2007
Starring: Brian Presley, Jake Muxworthy, and Rider Strong.
What the box says:
When three Texas University students travel to a Mexican border town on the eve of their graduation, the last thing they expect is to face their own deaths. Without warning, they fall pray to an ancient blood cult hell-bent on finding candidates for human sacrifice. Inspired by a true story.
What Mat says:
A group of drunken, stupid, party animals decide to drive through the night to get to Mexico for "real freedom" and partying. The three immediately take to the local culture... AKA strip clubs and whores. The evening takes an odd tun when one gets cut in a bar fight defending a bartender, while anothers hooker time is interrupted by her screaming infant. The next day the hard partying continues when the friends make the always good decision to take shrooms with local women they just met, hang out a Mexican carnival, and proceed to harass locals and act all around obnoxious. Phil finds himself high and alone as he travels home alone. Lucky for a blood thirsty cult he happens their way. With the help of the local bartender , Ed and Henry go to hunt down what happened to Phil. Realizing that everyone in town is scared shitless of the cult and their priests Ed and Henry depend on a native cop who has witnessed the cults brutality first hand. Will they make it back to U.S. soil alive? Will an old cop finally avenge his partner? OR will a bunch of american douchebags get what they deserve and die in a Mexican bordertown?
The Verdict:
This film falls into that horror category that got really popular a few years ago with films like Turistas, and Hostel, where you get trapped in a foreign country making it nearly impossible for you to leave unless THEY let you. With the exception of Eli Roths Hostel films I have never connected with these films and this one is no exception. It seems to take forever before anything really happens and once it does it feels lack luster at best. The creepy head priest played by man pretty Beto Cuevas reminds me of the Man in White from the Desperado film with is super clean white clothing. In addition to having a slow start leading to an ending that feels like it belongs in an Action film (complete with hand to hand combat and shootouts) the middle of the film seems to tell you nothing about why things happen then suddenly makes some lame excuse. For example halfway through the characters start talking about how the cult can cloud mens minds or some such nonsense giving me flashbacks of old Shadow radio programs and a drooling Tim Curry. Overall the film is shot well and it has Rider Strong in it who I have total respect for ever since Cabin Fever (... ok AND Boy Meets World...) but I would never buy this movie. At the end of the day its rentable at best.
Three Wolves.
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