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The Ruins
It seems very frightening, as a group of friends get involved in a brutal struggle to survive after visiting a remote archaeological dig in the Mexican jungle. Perhaps in the end, these friends discover something deadly living in the rubble where things can turn into a strange turn.
21 July 1945, Coatlan del Rio, Morelos, Mexico
7 October 1979, Richmond, British Columbia, Canada
29 April 1985, Nizhniy Tagil, Sverdlovskaya oblast, RSFSR, USSR [now Russia]
5 June 1966, Washington, District of Columbia, USA
July 23, 2009
If it could happen to these kids, smart and beautiful, then it sure as shit is going to happen to me.
April 07, 2008
More disgusting than scary, The Ruins is the latest in a long line of horror films about upper-middle-class travelers being terrorized in unfamiliar environments.
April 07, 2008
In compressing the novel down to a sloppy abridgement, the film fails to capture the eerie portent of its setting.
August 08, 2009
So bereft of creativity that it fails even to deliver to its base--teenage boys--the ghouls and boobs they so desperately want to see.
August 22, 2010
Watchable killer-plant horror movie.
December 17, 2010
Tourists vs. flesh-eating vines; guess who wins?
April 07, 2008
Moral of the story: never visit an out-of-the-way Mexican ruin covered by vines and blood-red flowers that make a squeaking sound.
July 06, 2010
Who really needs to see some guy slice into a woman's lower back, dig around in there with his fingers, and then reel in a four-foot length of tapewormlike vine? I mean, really.
April 07, 2008
The Ruins does what a good psychological horror movie should do: rely on tension rather than gore to achieve its aims.
April 07, 2008
The usual gore-and-gristle fare, but this one serves it up with a tad more suggestiveness and smarts.
April 11, 2008
A more than satisfactory scare fest.
October 14, 2012
If you fancy a goofy little thrill that's a ray of sunshine compared to the usual glut of gloomy slasher flicks and tawdry torture pornos, The Ruins is just what the doctor ordered.