The Ruins

2008

Action / Adventure / Fantasy / Horror / Mystery / Sci-Fi / Thriller

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Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 50% · 98 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Spilled 30% · 250K ratings
IMDb Rating 5.9/10 10 83429 83.4K

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Plot summary

Americans Amy, Stacy, Jeff and Eric look for fun during a sunny holiday in Mexico, but they get much more than that after visiting an archaeological dig in the jungle.


Uploaded by: FREEMAN
May 22, 2016 at 06:48 AM

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Jena Malone as Amy
Laura Ramsey as Stacy
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1 hr 30 min
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Movie Reviews

Reviewed by dbborroughs 8 / 10

Creepy horror tale will stay with you

One of the better horror films of recent years, is creepy and scary and the sort of thing that makes your skin crawl. Its a simple story- several tourists go to a temple in the Mexican jungle that happens to be off the beaten path. There is of course something there and the locals are not happy about visitors. I won't say more since I'm going tempted to tell you way too much...which would be too much since the plot is simple. Its almost too simple. The reason the film works is that the film has decent characters and it does things that are decidedly not your typical horror movie choices. Its short, its sweet and it works. Its not perfect, there are one or two things I didn't like, but on the whole its a very good very creepy film. Frankly while Brazil got upset about Touristas a year because it might make think people about going there, Mexico should worry since this film will make anyone think again about going into ancient ruins. (7.5 ish out of 10 on the horror scale because thinking about the screams makes my skin crawl)

Reviewed by claudio_carvalho 7 / 10

The Mayan Ruins and the Climbing Plants

While on vacation in a resort in Mexico, the Americans Jeff (Jonathan Tucker), his girlfriend Amy (Jena Malone), her best friend Stacy (Laura Ramsey) and her boyfriend Eric (Shawn Ashmore) befriend the German Mathias (Joe Anderson) in the swimming pool. Mathias invites the group to visit the ruins of a Mayan temple with his Greek friend Dimitri (Dimitri Baveas) in an archaeological field where his brother Henrich and his girlfriend are camped eighteen kilometers far from the resort. They hire an old taxi and when they reach the spot, they are surrounded by Mayan villagers armed of revolver, rifle and bow-and-arrow that kill Dimitri and do not allow the group to leave the place. They climb a construction covered of creepers with red flowers, and remain under siege of the locals. When they hear a cell phone in the bottom of a well, Mathias decides to seek the apparatus using a rope that breaks and he has a serious accident breaking his back. Amy and Stacy go to the bottom of the mine to rescue Mathias and they find many corpses covered by the climbing plants; further, they realize that they had been lured by the plants that are vibrating with the sound of a cell phone. When they are attacked by the carnivorous creeping plants, they understand the reaction of the Mayan villagers.

"The Ruins" is an original horror movie, with a different and creepy story, good performances of the young cast and great special effects. The beauty of Laura Ramsey is impressive, and the great actress Jena Malone performs an annoying character. The scene of the amputation of Mathias legs is extremely gore and gruesome. My vote is seven.

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Reviewed by Leofwine_draca 7 / 10

Pass the weedkiller

A surprisingly decent pulp horror outing with its roots (no pun intended) purely in the 1930s: this is based on a contemporary novel which I'm convinced must have been inspired by the Clark Ashton Smith short story The Seed from the Sepulchre (coincidentally one of my favourite stories ever). The story is simple, an age-old tale about naïve teenagers on a holiday from hell, not dissimilar to PARADISE LOST in its own way. Once the characters find themselves trapped in an ancient Mayan temple and at the menace of a most unusual monster it really picks up.

The horror is a neat mix of slow-building fear with graphic surgical gore, a la HOSTEL. It certainly doesn't pull its punches, with one graphic set-piece particularly difficult to forget afterwards. There are plenty of other chilling moments, like the bits involving mimicry or a later scene that literally gets under your skin. The youthful cast is typically dull, with only the German character provoking interest, but that doesn't matter when the story and pacing are so well achieved. It's amazing what a little originality can do: compare this to something like the exceptionally dull PROM NIGHT remake and you'll see what I mean.

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