It’s a strange mix of movies for us today, and the folks out at Lions Gate sent it to us on one convenient Blu-ray. Today we’re talking about the After Dark Horrorfest Double Feature To Die For: Borderland / Crazy Eights, and part of this disc is pretty nice, while the other is fairly weak.

Borderland takes us down south of the border, down Mexico way, where a group of Texas University students have gone to get their party on just ahead of their graduation. And what they’ll find down there, well, by now is the subject of a State Department warning–a monstrous, psychotic cult looking for human sacrifices.

Crazy Eights, meanwhile, takes six people who have one thing in common, the children’s home they all spent some time in. And while the specifics of their childhood is a bit unclear, the one thing they’re all clear on is that one of their friends died accidentally. But there’s something significantly worse waiting in that house, and as the group finds themselves walking through that house of their past, they discover what they all really have in common.

The thing about After Dark Horrorfest titles is that, for the most part, even when they’re bad, they’re still pretty good. When Borderlands was originally released, it wasn’t my choice for the dog of the festival–this was the 2008 Horrorfest–but it was pretty close. It actually turned out to be my second least favorite, but as it turned out, though it came out ahead of Lake Dead (which wasn’t hard, I’ve seen some home movies that were both scarier and easier to watch than Lake Dead was) it was actually just as good as the next two (Unearthed and Nightmare Man, respectively), but for largely different reasons. Crazy Eights, meanwhile, turned out to be my third favorite in the series, coming in just behind Tooth and Nail and Mulberry St., but just a tick ahead of The Deaths of Ian Stone.

This is a good if strange mix, mostly because Crazy Eights and Borderlands really don’t have anything to do with each other. While they’ll both have their share of bizarre elements (Borderlands, for instance, will have you trying to believe that Mexican cultists are not only running drugs but they’re using blood magic to protect their haul from prying eyes. Meanwhile, Crazy Eights will have you wondering how people who grew up together could forget so much about their childhoods.), it really doesn’t matter, because in the end, they’re both still pretty good.

The Screenhead Ten Scale, meanwhile, gives a full ten out of ten to After Dark Horrorfest Double Feature To Die For: Crazy Eights / Borderlands, a blu-ray that gives you two good quality movies in one convenient package. The two by themselves aren’t tens, but getting two eights in one box, well, that’s added value. And added value is worth a perfect score in my book.