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Canada, near the US Border, Jalil, Leslie, Michelle, Gab, and Tom are driving back home after a wedding. A car blocks the road and forces them to stop. It's the Border Police. The officers check their IDs. They seem suspicious and their questioning slowly intensifies. In particular, the origins of Jalil seem to intrigue the officers. As good citizens, the group stays calm. After all, they've done nothing wrong... Except that broken light... Except that pot found in the car...
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United Kingdom released, PAL/Region 2 DVD: LANGUAGES: English ( Dolby Digital Stereo ), ANAMORPHIC WIDESCREEN (1.78:1), SPECIAL FEATURES: Anamorphic Widescreen, Interactive Menu, Scene Access, SYNOPSIS: Five friends returning from a marriage in Canada return home to the United States. Not far from the border, two customs officers stop them to check their identity. Suspicious, they take their time especially with Jalil, a man of Arab origin. The situation worsens when a customs officer finds a small bag of marijuana in the luggage. Then things degenerate rapidly: a customs officer grabs the little dog that's part of the group and slits open its belly to be sure it's not a mule. When Gab makes a move, he's shot. The customs officer orders the surviving friends to undress and put on orange coveralls. Gradually, it dawns on the four tourists that they are in the hands of former torturers from Guantanamo. ...Territories ( Territoires ) ( Checkpoint )
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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
Format:DVD
According to DVD cover blurb (which I never trust anyway!!!) :
Comparisons to "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre" - Where exactly??? Barely, as far as i could see!!
Impressive gore scenes - Excuse me??? Did I watch a different movie???
As a previous reviewer stated, this film starts out with a reasonable premise but in the end I dont think anyone involved could decide just what kind of film they wanted to make as it becomes an anti climactic jumble. It threatens to turn a bit "Martyrs" but never delivers. Plot strands are introduced for, really, no apparent reason and not paid off and the horror movie cliches are rolled out and by the end of the film I felt Id only seen half a narrative.
Another reviewer rightly states about the ambiguity of the film putting some off. Now, Im all for a film which makes you think and leaves you to make up your own mind on an ending but this is the worst of the worst of open ended climaxes I have ever seen.
Some decent performances from the cast and some decent ideas wasted in my opinion. An extreme disappointment :(
Comparisons to "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre" - Where exactly??? Barely, as far as i could see!!
Impressive gore scenes - Excuse me??? Did I watch a different movie???
As a previous reviewer stated, this film starts out with a reasonable premise but in the end I dont think anyone involved could decide just what kind of film they wanted to make as it becomes an anti climactic jumble. It threatens to turn a bit "Martyrs" but never delivers. Plot strands are introduced for, really, no apparent reason and not paid off and the horror movie cliches are rolled out and by the end of the film I felt Id only seen half a narrative.
Another reviewer rightly states about the ambiguity of the film putting some off. Now, Im all for a film which makes you think and leaves you to make up your own mind on an ending but this is the worst of the worst of open ended climaxes I have ever seen.
Some decent performances from the cast and some decent ideas wasted in my opinion. An extreme disappointment :(
11 of 12 people found the following review helpful
Format:DVD
Returning to the States from a friends wedding in Canada a car full of young friends runs into trouble with the border patrol. Two unforgiving cops subject them to a rather aggressive stop and search resulting in the inevitable drug find and the shocking unprovoked shooting of one of the group. The night of misery does not end there as the two cops are revealed to be imposters and the group find themselves interned in a replica of Guantanamo Bay and it's now infamous torture techniques. it may not be the most subtle political statement made by a horror movie but it certainly serves as a sharp reminder of humanities misguided attempts to maintain the status qui by harming others.
TERRITORIES carries a French pedigree with it's director and production team as well as being a Canadian/French co-production and despite its lack of subtitles it very much belongs in the grim bleak ouvre of French horror with some nasty extreme torture sequences and an unconventional narrative approach where the third act is almost an entirely different film. The film makers also adopt an unusual approach to the deaths of the characters as one by one they are forgotten about and they slip from memory. Sometimes people are just forgotten about and that may be a tough selling point to those who do not like ambiguity in a movie.
Brutal, bleak and quite brilliant the only proviso I would ask for when it is released in the UK is please do not change the title to CHECKPOINT I'm still annoyed at SWITCHBLADE ROMANCE!
TERRITORIES carries a French pedigree with it's director and production team as well as being a Canadian/French co-production and despite its lack of subtitles it very much belongs in the grim bleak ouvre of French horror with some nasty extreme torture sequences and an unconventional narrative approach where the third act is almost an entirely different film. The film makers also adopt an unusual approach to the deaths of the characters as one by one they are forgotten about and they slip from memory. Sometimes people are just forgotten about and that may be a tough selling point to those who do not like ambiguity in a movie.
Brutal, bleak and quite brilliant the only proviso I would ask for when it is released in the UK is please do not change the title to CHECKPOINT I'm still annoyed at SWITCHBLADE ROMANCE!
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:DVD
The premise of this movie is quite obvious, and I wouldn't usually fault it for that. Like much of the "Torture Porn" genre that materialized after the war in Iraq, the inspiration for the story here was Guantánamo Bay and the horrors enacted there, along with the terrible torture footage from Iraq. Where this movie fails a little for me (docked one star) is that they didn't think the audience would be smart enough to make the connection themselves, so there are a couple scenes where you're beat over the head with it.
The ending, bleak as it is, is clearly intended not to allow a sequel, but to further show how the horrors never really end, and how those who perpetrated the actions never seem to pay for what they've done.
The cover art tries to link it with Texas Chainsaw, but that's wholly inappropriate. As for others who have posted reviews complaining about the lack of gore in reference to TCM - I wonder if they've actually watched TCM, which has very little.
Anyway, back to this film. It's gloomy, hopeless, and nasty (but not especially violent or gory). As such it worked.
The ending, bleak as it is, is clearly intended not to allow a sequel, but to further show how the horrors never really end, and how those who perpetrated the actions never seem to pay for what they've done.
The cover art tries to link it with Texas Chainsaw, but that's wholly inappropriate. As for others who have posted reviews complaining about the lack of gore in reference to TCM - I wonder if they've actually watched TCM, which has very little.
Anyway, back to this film. It's gloomy, hopeless, and nasty (but not especially violent or gory). As such it worked.
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average film
this film is very good ive given average cause only the way this film ends. went and spoilt it. poor ending. buy and see
Published 2 months ago by tango
Sorry, but...:
BORING!! Jesus, when will I ever learn that if a cover needs to compare the content to such big names like TCM or the like it most likely will disappoint me... Read more
Published 8 months ago by A. Lohse
Nothing spectacular
The first twenty minutes of this film starts quite promising and is full of action. A group of friends are stopped in a car as they approach the US border. Read more
Published 8 months ago by Mr. N. D. Havers
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