YMMV / Borderland

• Complete Monster: Papa Santillan is both a charismatic crime lord and the head of a death cult active near the border of Mexico with a penchant for brutal torture. Sacrificing dozens of victims in ritualistic killings so that the gods may protect his cocaine smuggling operation, Santillan has a police detective mutilated and beheaded for trying to stop him while his partner, Ulises, is Forced to Watch everything. Deciding to kill an American to appease the gods, a young man is kidnapped for Santillan and when his friends, Ed and Henry, begin searching their friend to save him, Santillan has the cousin of Ed's Love Interest murdered before Henry is hacked to death with machetes. Using Phil for one of his rituals, Santillan mutilates his shoulder with a cleaver and has him decapitated while he goes to take a bath. When confronted by Ulises, Santillan kills him anyway despite the man having showed him mercy.
• Critical Dissonance: The movie scored very high with critics, even landing 100% on Rotten Tomatoes (based on only 8 reviews, but is still a feat nearly unheard of for a film of its kind). Horror audiences, however, are much more divided on it, with its IMDB score being an only slightly above average 5.6. - it has fans, but the general consensus is that aside from the killers being cult members based on a real group, its plot is standard slasher fare (group of young people go somewhere for vacation, only to discover murder awaits them) lifted mainly by its performances and atmosphere. It's not regarded as a bad film, but viewers treated it with nowhere near the respect critics did.