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Join Alamo Drafthouse West Oaks for Graveyard Shift: UNDOCUMENTED.

Welcome to The Graveyard Shift — where night owls come together to enjoy some of the best horror movies ever made. From the classics to unknown gems, every month the Alamo Drafthouse will pick out a favorite from the vault for your enjoyment. The Graveyard Shift isn’t just a simple screening, though — it’s an event. Every month we’ll bring you games, giveaways and surprises of all shapes and sizes. If you’re a horror fan living in Houston, the third Saturday of the month is reserved for The Graveyard Shift.

Undocumented is the one of the best horror films to be released in a long time. The film, which played at Fantastic Fest ’10, will leave you shaking and feeling exhausted. Scott Mechlowicz, Alona Tal, Greg Serano and Kevin Weisman star as a group of grad students working on a documentary about illegal immigrants. Deciding to follow a group as they cross the border, the students find themselves up a certain creek without a paddle when the entire group — immigrants and students — are kidnapped by a gang of border vigilantes lead by Z, a masked psychopath played by Peter Stormare in a career-best performance.

Director Chris Peckover has made an outstanding horror film. As if it were building a basement to keep kidnapped children, UNDOCUMENTED slowly constructs a thick wall of dread — locking audiences in a dark, constrained sense of ill ease with every new terror that Z unleashes upon his victims. UNDOCUMENTED turns the illegal immigrant issue, always a hot topic in politics, into a movie so fierce and scary it’ll have you leaving nail marks on the palms of your hands. It does for border crossings what JAWS did for the ocean or HOSTEL did for East Europe.

Director Chris Peckover
Year 2010
Starring Peter Stormare
Rating R
Run Time 106min