The Borderlands - British Found Footage Horror Film

The Borderlands is a 2013 British found footage horror film, directed and written by Elliot Goldner. The movie was produced by Jennifer Handorf and Jezz Vernon, and the stars of the movie are Gordon Kennedy, Aidan McArdle, Robin Hill, Luke Neal, and Patrick Godfrey.

The movie?s plot is centered upon a team of Vatican investigators researching an old and abandoned church site, trying to discover the unusual happenings, only to discover something far greater and darker than what they?ve imagined. 

The three investigators sent by the Vatican to investigate the reports of supernatural activity in the newly re-opened church in the Devon countryside are Deacon (played by Gordon Kennedy), Gray (played by Robin Hill), and Father Mark Amidon (played by Aidan McArdle). Upon their first visit to the church, they are welcomed by the local priest Father Crellick (played by Luke Neil) who tells them that a miracle has taken place, and shows them footage of objects on the altar moving, but Deacon is skeptical. They set up a piece of recording equipment that detects the sounds of deep whispers and infant crying. The very distraught Father Crellick then climbs up the bell tower to the roof, and Mark pursues him and tries to calm him, but doesn?t succeed as Father Crellick commits suicide.

All of the locals are hostile towards the three investigators, and even burn a sheep in front of their cottage, then the local pub landlord evicts them from his premises. Although they are encountering difficulties during the stay, they are determined to solve the mystery. Later, during Deacon?s investigation, he finds a hidden door inscribed with a pagan sigil that he found in the diaries of the last minister that served in the church until it was closed in the 1880s. Behind the door, Deacon finds a set of stairs and listens to the sound of the infant crying and Father Crellick?s screaming. He then decides to bring his mentor from the Vatican, Father Calvino (played by Patrick Godfrey) to purify the church. Father Calvino explains to them that priests used to build churches upon pagan temples, and has evidence that the church is situated in such a place. 

During the exorcism, violent and disturbing forces are shaking the church. Deacon and Grey then find evidence of child sacrifice and find that the late minister, converted to worshipping the pagan deity. They also find Calvino's ornamental crucifix on the floor of one of the tunnels, as they try to find Mark who disappeared in one of them. Following Mark?s voice, they crawl through a narrow, foul-smelling passageway whose exits suddenly contract via a membranous material before the tunnel itself begins to move. The walls begin to secrete a powerful digestive enzyme which horribly burns the two men. As their lights go out, Gray screams in agony and terror while a tormented Deacon recites the Lord?s Prayer.