The end.... - The Borderlands (2015) Discussion

[–] bwhitwellb 10 years ago

Crawled into a Dietie's intestine on route to the stomach? The old priest summoned it up during the ritual. I could be wrong just finished watching literally, this was a great film based on actual events at the jersey care home, but the elites were the ones killing the babies.
The director knew all about the savile case and the connections, he was a dietie or possessed by a dietie.

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[–] Thrill_KillZ 10 years ago

Definitely a creepy ending to what I thought would be the usual cliche ending I'm so used to seeing, very creative and effective,

into they travelled through thy sacred passages deep into the belly of the beast

I'm claustrophobic too so I was already uneasy with them squeezing through those tunnels, but there was a part where they should have realized they were being baited and that there was absolutely no way the priest could have been that ahead of them, still I'm giving it a strong 7/10 for it's sub-genre maybe 8/10

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[–] derekge 10 years ago

(SPOILERS) I agree. When you see the circular shaft close up like a puckering butt hole, you're like, "Holy *beep* That is a Demon's stomach!" Never expected that.

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[–] cosmicgirl2011 10 years ago

I watched it again recently and I must have missed that bit first time around, on second viewing I noticed the bit where the end closes up and I was like oh my god lol, when he pans his camera around and you see it close up.

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[–] denno 10 years ago

What on earth does the Jersey Care Home case have to do with this movie???????

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[–] bigdaddyboxmeal 9 years ago

Absolutely nothing. I think the guy that wrote that was either on the wrong forum thread or the wrong prescription.

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[–] kjaney 9 years ago

Your reply made me chuckle :)))

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[–] Tubular_Bell 10 years ago

Oh, Jeebus, they were EATEN? Damn, this is even stupider than I thought. All I could think about the last shot, with one of the guys screaming directly into the camera, was the movie yelling at me "pray to Jeezus or you'll die like meeeee!"

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[–] jwelker 8 years ago

I'm not sure how you that's all you could think of, since that's not what the movie says at all.

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[–] wallshadows 10 years ago

If the beast below the Church only had tentacles then this would have been a great Lovecraftian tale.

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[–] ck2022 9 years ago

Haha! Yeah! But then it would have been a bit to much, I think. To me this felt Lovecraftian already, in a good way.

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[–] lmillett-89-837178 9 years ago

i thought it was the bowels of hell. either way, not a bad ending for a found footage film. but how and whom found the footage?

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[–] iamingozi 10 years ago

If they did end up in the bowels. From where were the cameras expelled. That is the place you want to avoid.

I think it would have been a real head screw if they kept walking down below and end up in the Blair Witch house, with the original actors still standing in the corner. I mean, they were acting like the original Blair Witch actors did running around like they were.

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[–] Thrill_KillZ 10 years ago

I think it would have been a real head screw if they kept walking down below and end up in the Blair Witch house, with the original actors still standing in the corner. I mean, they were acting like the original Blair Witch actors did running around like they were.

Or like the end of the last PA:The Marked Ones, when they were running around like idiots into a house up a flight of stairs directly into the bottom floor of the house from PA1 with the original actors just in time for that whatshername girl to stab Micah, I thought that was where you were going with that.
That wasn't really much of a head screw though being connected to the same franchise(that and I wasn't aware that it was a f'in prequel)

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[–] MadRotaryOne_DDCgod 9 years ago

What are you talking about!?!? PA:TMOs wasn't a prequel, what would ever give you
that idea, lol.
It's obvious the went to the mothers house from PA3, and then walked through a portal
through time and space to be transported into the past and across town to the other
house.

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[–] Thrill_KillZ 9 years ago

Yea I worded it wrong, not sure what made me choose that description, but merely meant they were transported back in time to the earlier scene in the first house, PA:TMO was entirely current except for that connection at the very end, no argument on that front.

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[–] MadRotaryOne_DDCgod 9 years ago

No problem Bro, lol. Yeah cause the storyline was def a continuation, with the
witches still on their quest to form some kind of male army.
Not sure where they are going with it, and I think they are just making it
up as they go along. That being said, with PA3 being a close second due to the
cool retro feel to it, I have to say the PA:TMO was by far the best in the series
so far. The actors they cast were top notch, and the storyline was just better
all around. I think alot of it stemmed from the fact that it was more like a
regular movie, due to the fact that they were filming around town, outside, and
in the daylight.
Hopefully they will finish it as strong....

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[–] kornadict 10 years ago

i dont know if was a mere creature or something more (pagan god? demon?), it's presence was felt all around the church (inside and outside). it's effects were worse when the name of Christ was invoked and when father Calvino tried to exorcise it, it reacted violently.in the end deacon and the technician were lured into the lair of this thing and they ended up in its stomach and were devoured.

reminds me of the movie the lair of the white worm with a young Hugh Grant.

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[–] OneLastWish999 10 years ago

wish they made the ending a little more clear. An alright flick 6.5/10

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[–] !!!deleted!!! (6195987) 10 years ago

@idtaken123: I agree, a bit of a head scratcher?!

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[–] MadRotaryOne_DDCgod 9 years ago

The end more clear???!!?!

You must be one of those people that can only watch a movie filled with
expostionary speeches every 10 minutes.
It's blatantly obvious that there was a monster under ground that literally
devoured people. It was all on the pictograph on the wall. I mean, didn't
you pause it and take a better look???
Half the time I think people watch movies while cleaning their house, or
cooking supper, talking with friends, messing about on the internet, or
any other of the million things that you shouldn't be doing while watching
a movie.
If something doesn't make sense, then watch it again. Christ on a stick!!

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[–] t_andrew 9 years ago

you just loved saying that whole speech didn't you

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[–] MadRotaryOne_DDCgod 9 years ago

Yes, I kinda did, thanks...?

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[–] northernlad 7 years ago

lol

American Horror Story Season 7: Donald Trump

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[–] thirdeye55 9 years ago

Yah, uhm, no. It was insanely clear and obvious what happened at the end. Unless you were not really paying attention while watching, which is cool and all, but you really shouldn't watch a found footage film while doing other *beep* You'll def miss important details.

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[–] Sussexfilmlad 10 years ago

When the end arrived I too thought of Lair of the White Worm but also, avoiding spoilers, a couple of odd similarities to a certain Joss Whedon film....

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[–] !!!deleted!!! (6195987) 10 years ago

Were they literally consumed into the bowels of hell, hence their burning and melting,,,,a demon or the devil was never seen, yet I think that was what was implied. Film got better nearer the end, now I just wonder what it was all about, had the priest become a satanist or pagan?

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[–] the lioness 10 years ago

I think Mark converted towards the end of the film or he might have converted before his arrival. I mean, why did he come anyway? Maybe he came as his way of stopping or sabotaging the investigation. Remember what he said in the church during the exorcism about how the Church needed come out of the dark ages? I think he converted to the pagan faith just like the other priest they were reading about who scrolled that message on the wall of the cavern asking God's forgiveness for converting to whatever pagan faith he believed in. The two men didn't realize it at first but they were human sacrifices to the pagan god, which helps me understand the gibberish Mark was saying. He was luring them to their deaths because they were the sacrifice to his god. I bet if we could translate what Mark was saying, he was offering them up as his sacrifice.

One thing about this film, too. I think whatever was down there had a change of taste as thousands of year went on. It must have started with babies but now must have graduated to adults. I didn't see any adult human remains, only those of babies. Who knows...

After seeing this and The Banshee Chapter, now I see why folks compare these two films because they do fit into the Lovecraft mythos.

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[–] spmact 10 years ago

I think he didn't necessarily convert, but was somehow possessed when he looked up that hole and something came down and knocked him unconscious. It controlled him from then on, and really took over at the end.

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[–] MadRotaryOne_DDCgod 9 years ago

Jesus, I wonder sometimes if anybody actually watches the movies that I do, cause
in NO way did it imply that Father Mark was a Pagan, lmao.
It's blatantly obvious that he was possessed towards the beginning, when we see his
ear was bleeding.

As far as the babies, LMAO, and it 'changing it's taste', holy crap, LOL, that
was funny, but retarded as hell. Yes, it was fed babies, but since there wasn't
a orphanage around anywhere anymore, and those 2 guys decided to go have a look
in the tunnels, well it seems like the creature decide to eat them. Basically
it would have eaten anything that happen to be stupid enough to go into a small
hole underground, lol.

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[–] jchapter 9 years ago

Dude just because people have their own ideas of what happened doesn't make them retarded. such a jobsworth. I can't stand people like you. Smart arse.

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[–] AarOnHisBox 9 years ago

You definitely have some real issues. You are clearly insecure about your intellect, that much is obvious.

For 99.9% of people, watching a movie is for entertainment, not because they think they are some kind of top-notch movie critic that has the time nor inclination to actually pause the damn movie so they can dissect the drawings on the walls.

You see, a lot of other people have these things called lives and don't have time to pause and re-watch things so they can, like you, attempt to hide their intellectual insecurity behind an attitude of arrogance and condescendence.

This was not that clever of a movie nor was its story interesting enough to warrant the amount of time and analysis you put into it on top of the time you then put into writing about it while calling other people stupid.

This is not a great movie. This is an average "I am going to relax, sit down, watch a movie and relax for awhile" movie. Having to pause and re-watch scenes to enjoy it defeats the entire purpose. This isn't Inception. it's not like "oh wow, now I get it - wow that is so cool." No, understand this movie is like "really? oh ok - weird but whatever."

The fact that your comments give off that holier than thou attitude is a real turnoff.

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[–] MadRotaryOne_DDCgod 9 years ago

A real turnoff? Are we *beep* dating???

Um, I hate to break it to you, but the 1,000 other posts on this movies message
board about any number of topics, would suggest that other do indeed analyze this
movie. Just the fact that you think that your right about this movie, shows that
even yours is just an opinion. If your so narrow minded to think that only a movie
like 'Inception' deserves to thought about, you're the one who has 'issues'.

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[–] bfp13108 9 years ago

Yay...you are really condescending which automatically makes you a twit.

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[–] the lioness 10 years ago

That's what I'm thinking, too.

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[–] maugrim81 10 years ago

I think it's the belly of the beast as well.

But one misconception was that pagans sacrificed people. that isn't true. It was the mayans who did that. pagans believe in the earth and what's around them. they are against killing innocents. they're about fertility and life and just earth in general.

but i think it was definitely the belly of some sort of deity or something along that line. good movie however. kept you guessing!

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[–] tom_grainger88 10 years ago

pagan is used to describe all kinds of pre monotheist religions and yes most practiced sacrifice, the were native American tribes that would perform ritual sacrifice by tying someone up and shooting them full of arrows, the norse/Viking cultures sacrificed people by drowning them, if the body never washed ashore the gods had taken it, the druids in Britain and Ireland sacrificed animals and people, some have been found in bogs, wearing ritual jewellery and having been killed in odd ways such as being garrotted stabbed and having their skull smashed, perhaps as a way to sacrifice one person to multiple gods. faiths that worshipped life and fertility also worshipped death as it feeds the new life that comes afterwards, they saw it as a big cycle, things live from the land then die and fertilise the land, it was all the same system. some believe the sacrifices were criminals others think they volunteered but the argument is about how many were sacrificed and what for, not if human sacrifice happened.

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[–] All_Seeing_Fly 10 years ago

It was the belly of the beast. You can see the round walls of bloody skin.
How the *beep* they found the cameras is anybody's guess! - artistic licence I think it's called.

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[–] TheHappySpaceInvader 10 years ago

How the *beep* they found the cameras is anybody's guess! - artistic licence I think it's called.

I think the cameras didn't have any storage medium - they were relaying the picture back to a separate digital recording device. At one point in the tunnels, the techie guy places a portable relay on the wall.

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[–] Xex-Arachnid 9 years ago

but then the question becomes what does the vatican do now, once they watch the vids? Do they sweep the incident under the rug and condemn the place or do they send in a team of exorcists and do battle w/ the beast??

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[–] bfp13108 9 years ago

Nuke it...Americans' answer to all problems.

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[–] Xex-Arachnid 9 years ago

Although that is funny bfp13108, I mean I got a chuckle out of that, I was hoping a little more serious feedback. I don't really dig documentary style horror movies and this one really got to me and that's saying something ;)

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[–] Terchill_Spence 9 years ago

Nah, the demon just shat the camera out at some point.

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[–] plutomani 9 years ago

Or maybe it hated the taste of cameras and spat them out.

The thing I kept thinking of after that ending scene was how huge an entity with such an immense digestive system must be. I imagined a gargantuan underground-creature like the sarlacc from Return of the Jedi.

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[–] venusboys3 9 years ago

Yeah, it was pretty clear that the head-cams were sending a signal to a central recording device. So no quandry on how the film was 'found'... though I suspect the villagers, who I'm guessing knew of and worshipped the beast, would have gone into the church afterward and hidden any evidence.
Not that it matters, I like first person/found footage movies but part of that enjoyment involves overlooking the details of how you came to be viewing the footage.

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[–] emily-mcmannes 9 years ago

That's all I could think of, too. Who found the cameras, and WHERE ew. I supposed the demon could have erm...expelled them somehow.

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[–] Mark_a_Wood 9 years ago

Didn't Deacon find a second entrance to the area under the hill?

When he went out on his own across the fields towards the church one night (and kept seeing the priest in his flashlight beam) Deacon found a series of stone walls that had collapsed or been broken down. They seemed to be inside the side of the hill / mound that the church sat upon. Was that something trying to get out of there or someone opening it up to get in?

If Deacon and Gray entered the creature from the church entrance does that indicate it's butt was at the other end where the collapsed walls were?

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Sparks Moran: "It was dusk. I could tell 'cause the sun had gone down"

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[–] jwelker 8 years ago

Sometimes I think these films are made more akin to a "point of view" type film instead of actual "found" footage. In other words, we are seeing what would have been seen if such film is actually found.

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[–] Spike_the_Cactus 8 years ago

It's never established as a found footage film. It's simply the medium through which the story is told.

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[–] kjaney 9 years ago

And more's the point- how do we get to watch all the found footage if the blokes and their head-cams just got digested??

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[–] Larry-115 9 years ago

That's already been discussed -- the footage was being relayed.

What I'd like to know is, what made the sheep spontaneously combust?

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[–] antvolley 9 years ago

It didn't, it was deliberately set on fire by the gang of youths, one of whom Deacon chins when he "baa"s at him as they walk past.

"Hot lesbian witches!"

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