The Borrower

Sci-fi horror alien serial killer body swapping jam Kinda feels like Stuart Gordon and 1987’s The Hidden tossed into an early 90’s John McNaughton blender and it’s pretty aces—tons of gloop, great effects, Tom Towles going all in as an alien trapped in a rednecks body,…

Ian West

Hey remember when that alien rips a dogs head off and takes his own head off and replaces it with the dog's head and runs around attacking a punk band and then Madchen Amick shoots it with a gun right after she filmed and directed a music video?

Scumbalina

Was this the inspo for fried Barry?

Kat

"The Borrower" is a 1991 science fiction horror film directed by John McNaughton. The film became is his second entry released after his controversial "Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer" (1986). As "Henry" had to deal with some hurdles due to its controversial nature, it…

Blake Bergman "Various Spaghetti"

"what do a I look like, Donald Trump?" there's a sequence in this where a couple watch The Garbage Pail Kids Movie in bed, wearing headphones, intercut with a punk band playing in the living room while Mädchen Amick shoots a music video only to moments later be attacked…

Justin LaLiberty

Like an X-Files episode where Mulder & Scully never run into the alien wreaking havoc on the city. Unfocused, unbalanced, and mostly uneventful for a movie about heads getting squeezed off of people's bodies. But then it has stuff like Madchen Amick blasting (redacted) in…

Carlo Vanstiphout

A way out of left field follow-up to Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer for director John McNaughton. This film is literally off its nut at times which sees an alien being, condemned into a human body and banished to planet earth as punishment to live out the rest of their…

Lee

“Aliens living among us” is an old sci-fi concept, but The Borrower has lots of new ideas to add. This will immediately remind you of the classic The Hidden but it doesn’t take itself seriously. And even though I get nervous when I see “comedy/horror” or “comedy/sci-fi”,…

Digital Press

Needed much more of the dog-headed monster. Does not deserve to be mentioned in the same league as the masterpiece that is The Hidden.

MFIsaac