Magnet Releasing, the genre arm of Magnolia Pictures, is set to unleash Borderline, —a riotous stalker story that pushes the boundaries between romance and horror. Following in the footsteps of Josh Ruben’s genre-defying success Heart Eyes, Borderline explores the chilling intersection where obsession and love collide, prompting audiences to rethink the very nature of desire.
In his bold directorial debut, Jimmy Warden (writer of Cocaine Bear and The Babysitter: Killer Queen) delivers a narrative as daring and unpredictable as his previous work. Borderline stars Samara Weaving (Ready or Not, Guns Akimbo) as a ‘90s pop sensation whose world is turned upside down by Ray Nicholson (Smile 2), a stalker with an unsettlingly delusional vision of their future together. As his obsession spirals, he infiltrates her life, and what follows is a high-stakes battle for survival, where the star must face her worst nightmare—helped only by her fiercely loyal bodyguard.
The film also boasts an exceptional supporting cast, including Eric Dane (X-Men: The Last Stand, Feast), Alba Batista (Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris, Amelia’s Children), and Jimmie Fails (The Last Black Man in San Francisco).
To mark Borderline’s theatrical and digital release on March 14th, we caught up with Weaving, Nicholson, and Warden to chat about the inspiration behind Warden’s bold choice of debut film, the delicate art of mixing pitch-black humour with nail-biting suspense, and his reimagining of the “final girl” trope—teetering between being a victim, delivering the laughs, and displaying all the resilience you’d expect from a woman on the edge.
