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* RealAfterAll: [[spoiler: The Paegan Deity is real and the final two survivors find out the hard way being melted alive INSIDE it at the very end.]]
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*EatenAlive: [[spoiler: What happens to Deacon and Gray at the end.]]
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* CosmicHorrorReveal: [[spoiler: Doesn't get much bleaker or more horrific that not only is the Pagan deity allegedly responsible for the strangeness RealAfterAll, but that it's a gigantic, undergound EldritchAbomination... [[CruelAndUnusualDeath And that you're stuck inside its digestive system.]]]]
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* CosmicHorrorReveal: [[spoiler: Doesn't get much bleaker or more horrific that not only is the Pagan pagan deity allegedly responsible for the strangeness RealAfterAll, but that it's a gigantic, undergound EldritchAbomination... [[CruelAndUnusualDeath And that you're stuck inside its digestive system.]]]]
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* MeaningfulBackgroundEvent: While outside the church for a smoke, Gray misses the tombstone with his name on it - when he's distracted by a bird cawing, the tombstone's name changes to Grace Parker instead.
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* CosmicHorrorReveal: [[spoiler: Doesn't get much bleaker or more horrific that not only is the Pagan deity allegedly responsible for the strangeness RealAfterAll, but that it's a gigantic, undergound EldritchAbomination... [[CruelAndUnusualDeath And that you're stuck inside its digestive system.]]]]
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* Foreshadowing: A few for the ending.
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Just some thoughts that came to me on a rewatch. Delete if I'm over thinking things.
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* Foreshadowing: A few for the ending.
** As Deacon and Gray approach the church for the first time they see a dog attacking a rabbit and Gray muses “That’s nature for you, Deacon. Big stuff eating little stuff.” [[spoiler:The film ends with them being digested by the implicitly gigantic Pagan Deity beneath the Church.]]
** While discussing belief in the pub, Gray talks about how Pagans worshiped physical, observable things, like the Sun and Moon, while Christians put their faith in unobservable higher powers.[[spoiler: The Pagan's Deity turns out to be a physical entity rather than any kind of evil spirit like they were expecting.]]
** As Deacon and Gray approach the church for the first time they see a dog attacking a rabbit and Gray muses “That’s nature for you, Deacon. Big stuff eating little stuff.” [[spoiler:The film ends with them being digested by the implicitly gigantic Pagan Deity beneath the Church.]]
** While discussing belief in the pub, Gray talks about how Pagans worshiped physical, observable things, like the Sun and Moon, while Christians put their faith in unobservable higher powers.[[spoiler: The Pagan's Deity turns out to be a physical entity rather than any kind of evil spirit like they were expecting.]]
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Not to be confused with the ''Franchise/{{Borderlands}}'' franchise.
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Not to be confused with the ''Franchise/{{Borderlands}}'' ''VideoGame/{{Borderlands}}'' franchise.
* DrivenToSuicide: [[spoiler:Father Crellick]] leaps off the church's bell tower out of fear and guilt that the so-called "miracle" was something worse.
* FoundFootage: The film was sold as "''Film/ParanormalActivity'' in a church". [[spoiler:Although the question of how the footage was found is made particularly confusing by the ending.]]
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* ReligiousHorror: The horror starts as this, before it turns out that [[EldritchAbomination God has nothing to do with what's going on at the church]].
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* {{Jerkass}}: Gray Parker is an abrasive, irritating presence at the start of the film, but straightens out as the situation grows dire.
* ReligiousHorror: The horror starts as this, before it turns out that [[EldritchAbomination God has nothing to do with what's going on at thechurch]].church]].
* ShownTheirWork: The opening of the film follows Deacon on another assignment in Belém, Brazil, which is portrayed quite accurately down to the local slang.
* ThatsNoMoon: Mark [[spoiler:or rather, his re-animated corpse]] leads Deacon and Gray into a rather tight, foul-smelling passageway in the enormous labyrinth beneath the church, which would be unpleasant enough. [[spoiler:Then the exit closes off with a curiously organic-looking membrane, the walls start to move, and it's become clear that the pair are trapped in the digestive system of an EldritchAbomination.]]
* ReligiousHorror: The horror starts as this, before it turns out that [[EldritchAbomination God has nothing to do with what's going on at the
* ShownTheirWork: The opening of the film follows Deacon on another assignment in Belém, Brazil, which is portrayed quite accurately down to the local slang.
* ThatsNoMoon: Mark [[spoiler:or rather, his re-animated corpse]] leads Deacon and Gray into a rather tight, foul-smelling passageway in the enormous labyrinth beneath the church, which would be unpleasant enough. [[spoiler:Then the exit closes off with a curiously organic-looking membrane, the walls start to move, and it's become clear that the pair are trapped in the digestive system of an EldritchAbomination.]]
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* BadPeopleAbuseAnimals: The town locals set fire to a sheep outside the investigators' cottage, an early sign that something isn't right about this area.
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* DownerEnding: [[spoiler:Every major character ends up dying horribly, and there's no sign that the EldritchAbomination will be stopped - or even that it ''can'' be stopped.]]
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* DownerEnding: [[spoiler:Every major character ends up dying, with the two main ones dying horribly, in a [[CruelAndUnusualDeath particularly horrifying way]], and there's no sign that the EldritchAbomination will be stopped - or even that it ''can'' be stopped.]]
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Not to be confused with the ''Franchise/{{Borderlands}}'' franchise.
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* CruelAndUnusualDeath: [[spoiler:The unfortunate pair of Deacon and Gray are lured into a tunnel that turns out to be the digestive system of some massive underground EldritchAbomination that was worshiped as a pagan deity. Their last moments are spent screaming in agony as they melt in the great beast's stomach acids.]]]]
* CrueltyToAnimals: The town locals set fire to a sheep outside the investigators' cottage.
* DevelopingDoomedCharacters: The beginning of the movie is actually relatively light in tone, developing the characters of the investigators and observing their dynamic. Of course, it gets much darker later.
* DownerEnding: [[spoiler:Every major character ends up dying horribly, and there's no sign that the EldritchAbomination will be stopped - or even that it ''can'' be stopped.]]
* EldritchAbomination: Or an EldritchLocation, depending on your view. Whatever it is that's going on with the church, it's been going on for a very long time, [[spoiler:and there's ''something'' there that's alive and hungry.]]
* FolkHorror: While the initial tone is of ReligiousHorror, things get very pagan very quickly.
* GeniusLoci: The church's anomalies initially appear to be the result of building a church on the site of an old spot for pagan human sacrifice. [[spoiler:Then it turns out that the church serves the same purpose now as it did then...]]
* ReligiousHorror: The horror starts as this, before it turns out that [[EldritchAbomination God has nothing to do with what's going on at the church]].
* CrueltyToAnimals: The town locals set fire to a sheep outside the investigators' cottage.
* DevelopingDoomedCharacters: The beginning of the movie is actually relatively light in tone, developing the characters of the investigators and observing their dynamic. Of course, it gets much darker later.
* DownerEnding: [[spoiler:Every major character ends up dying horribly, and there's no sign that the EldritchAbomination will be stopped - or even that it ''can'' be stopped.]]
* EldritchAbomination: Or an EldritchLocation, depending on your view. Whatever it is that's going on with the church, it's been going on for a very long time, [[spoiler:and there's ''something'' there that's alive and hungry.]]
* FolkHorror: While the initial tone is of ReligiousHorror, things get very pagan very quickly.
* GeniusLoci: The church's anomalies initially appear to be the result of building a church on the site of an old spot for pagan human sacrifice. [[spoiler:Then it turns out that the church serves the same purpose now as it did then...]]
* ReligiousHorror: The horror starts as this, before it turns out that [[EldritchAbomination God has nothing to do with what's going on at the church]].
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Deacon, a devout religious brother, is assigned by the Vatican to investigate a possible miracle that occurred in a recently-reopened 13th century church in Devon, England. A layman and tech expert named Gray Parker, as well as a priest named Father Mark Amidon, are his back-up. The local priest, Father Crellick, shows footage that he purports to show the altar moving by itself, but Deacon is dubious. From this fairly innocuous beginning, things begin to go downhill: strange noises in the night, a burning sheep outside their lodging, and the creeping sense that what happened was [[EldritchAbomination the wrong kind of miracle]]...
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Deacon, a devout religious brother, is assigned by the Vatican to investigate a possible miracle that occurred in a recently-reopened 13th century church in Devon, England. A layman and tech expert named Gray Parker, as well as a priest named Father Mark Amidon, are his back-up. The local priest, Father Crellick, shows footage that he purports to show the altar moving by itself, but Deacon is dubious. From this fairly innocuous beginning, things begin to go downhill: strange noises in the night, a burning sheep outside their lodging, and the creeping sense that what happened was [[EldritchAbomination the wrong kind of miracle]]...miracle]]...
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* CruelAndUnusualDeath: [[spoiler:The unfortunate pair of Deacon and Gray are lured into a tunnel that turns out to be the digestive system of some massive underground EldritchAbomination that was worshiped as a pagan deity. Their last moments are spent screaming in agony as they melt in the great beast's stomach acids.]]
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* CruelAndUnusualDeath: [[spoiler:The unfortunate pair of Deacon and Gray are lured into a tunnel that turns out to be the digestive system of some massive underground EldritchAbomination that was worshiped as a pagan deity. Their last moments are spent screaming in agony as they melt in the great beast's stomach acids.]]
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''The Borderlands'' (known in the US as ''Final Prayer'') is a 2013 British FoundFootage {{Horror}} film, written and directed by Elliot Goldner in his first (and so far, only) film. It stars Gordon Kennedy, Robin Hill, Aidan [=McArdle=] and Patrick Godfrey.
Deacon, a devout religious brother, is assigned by the Vatican to investigate a possible miracle that occurred in a recently-reopened 13th century church in Devon, England. A layman and tech expert named Gray Parker, as well as a priest named Father Mark Amidon, are his back-up. The local priest, Father Crellick, shows footage that he purports to show the altar moving by itself, but Deacon is dubious. From this fairly innocuous beginning, things begin to go downhill: strange noises in the night, a burning sheep outside their lodging, and the creeping sense that what happened was [[EldritchAbomination the wrong kind of miracle]]...
Deacon, a devout religious brother, is assigned by the Vatican to investigate a possible miracle that occurred in a recently-reopened 13th century church in Devon, England. A layman and tech expert named Gray Parker, as well as a priest named Father Mark Amidon, are his back-up. The local priest, Father Crellick, shows footage that he purports to show the altar moving by itself, but Deacon is dubious. From this fairly innocuous beginning, things begin to go downhill: strange noises in the night, a burning sheep outside their lodging, and the creeping sense that what happened was [[EldritchAbomination the wrong kind of miracle]]...
