A psychotic shape-shifting alien is banished to earth, where it embarks on a series of brutal murders, decapitating the heads of its victims and donning them as its own. A police detective (Rae Dawn Chong) assigned to the case initially believes she is tracking a serial killer, but as she follows the otherworldly trail of rotted heads she slowly begins to suspect the killer is not of this earth.

Fresh off the stunning success of his powerful and disturbing debut, HENRY PORTRAIT OF A SERIAL KILLER, director John McNaughton keeps the blood gushing like a river in THE BORROWER, a grisly, terrifying, and darkly funny movie that plays like a madman's negative-image reply to E.T. THE EXTRA-TERRESTRIAL. McNaughton's second feature picks up where HENRY left off, creating a disorienting, nightmarish vision of the world that veers occasionally and unexpectedly into queasy bursts of pitch-black humor. Deepening his foray into harrowing serial killer fictionalizations, McNaughton delivers another shock masterpiece.