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Plot summary
Mexico City detectives Ulises and his partner raid a house marked by the remnants of animal and human sacrifice and are ambushed; Ulises watches his partner be tortured and killed, takes a bullet in the leg and is left alive to warn other officers off. A year later, recent Texas graduates Ed, Henry and Phil leave Galveston for a week across the border. Ed falls for Valeria, a bartender he defends in a bar fight, while Henry arranges a first sexual encounter for Phil, a pastor's son who instead becomes fixated on a young prostitute and her baby. After the group eats hallucinogenic mushrooms and visits a carnival, Phil sets out alone to give the baby a teddy bear and accepts an offered ride home.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Borderland (2007)
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- Zev Berman built the film out of a real case from the spring of 1989, when a Mexican drug lord who led a cult practicing human sacrifice kidnapped and murdered a University of Texas student.
