I audibly groaned when I discovered that The Borderlands was a found footage movie, as this is a genre that really has been flogged to death of late. However, I subsequently found out that the movie had seen the involvement of writer James Moran, albeit in a non-credited capacity, which piqued my interest. A subsequent positive review by UK critic Mark Kermode led me to seek out a copy of the film and I must concur with his sentiments. Low budgets often produce binary results when it comes to movies. They can either be derivative, formulaic and safe or they can revisit an established idea but do so with innovation and flair. The Borderlands strives to do something more with the confines of the genre and is a little more than the some of its parts.