Arkhamhaus Images - 'Border Patrol' weapon creation

DVD Cover Art for Border Patrol / Morderische Jagd

Miami detective, Freddy Chavez (Michael Delorenzo) steps across the invisible "border" between the living and the dead only to learn that the world in between is populated by hard-working gumshoes chasing down "deceased" villains who try to escape from beyond and return to this mortail coil, policing the barrier between life and death by pursuing tainted spirits who have returned to the Earthly plane without a valid license.
He teams up with Cal Numan (Clayton Rohner), a wisecracking, fedora-wearing, zoot-suited "ethereal" dick, to recapture the sinister phantasm Dr. Helms (Lewis Fitzgerald), a serial-killing surgeon with a mutated soul capable of reincorporation. Cal will need to seek advice from the all-knowing yet child-like Hieronymus...
Good Guys. Bad Guys. Dead Guys. It's Going To Be One Hell Of A Night!

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Cal Numan (Clayton Rohner) sizes up an undead target

Lots of imagination here.
SquirePM28 June 2002 -- IMDB user review
I don't know why IMDb has zilch on this movie, but it's very cool and full of creative departures from run of the mill movies. The "Border Patrol" in question has no jurisdiction on geographic borders. Its mission is to patrol the border between the living world and the netherworld. It keeps tabs on those troublemakers who have passed on, but still seek to mess with the corporeal world.
Given that premise, the execution is a lot better than you'd expect from a movie that gets a blank page in our favorite Database. The real world is dressed in typical modern day accouterments, but the netherworld is awash in coolth. Old customized Packard sedans with right-hand drive, manual typewriters that clack out computerized data, and some very stylish zoot suits and fedoras.
The cast runs a pretty wide range of talent, from wholly professional to embarrassingly amateurish. On the other hand, the special effects are up to snuff. The Border Patrol handguns look great and fire something I just can't resist calling pulses of netherenergy.
I rate it a pretty ingenious affair all around, and it's driven by a worthy if not revolutionary plot. The mystery to me is why IMDb has so little data on it.

Steampunk inspired Plasma Pistol Hero Prop

Artists Description and general comments.

Client : Village Road show Production Services via Animatronic Technologies Australia (now Cynotech).
Weapon creation : Plasma-blaster: 33cm width.
Design Notes : 2 Versions of the Ecto-Plasma Blaster created, Working alongside Wayne Nelson on the Sci-fi Flick Border Patrol (2001 --TV Movie) Shot in and around the Gold Coast QLD Australia.
Running Time: 89 Minutes
Genre: Detective Film/Sci-fi Noir. For some serious OTT Rayguns try Dr. Grordborts Infallible Aether Oscillators, a line of immensely dangerous yet simple to operate wave oscillation weapons.:)

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