The Ruins

Plot synopsis:
Four friends sit by the pool at a Cancún resort. Amy (Jena Malone) and Stacey (Laura Ramsey), two best friends, are on vacation with their boyfriends Jeff (Jonathan Tucker) and Eric (Shawn Ashmore). When Amy realizes that she has lost an earring, a boy Mathias (Joe Anderson) finds it at the bottom of the pool and returns it to her. Grateful, they invite him to share a drink with them, and Hans ends up inviting them to join him and his friend Dimitri (Dimitri Baveas) on a visit to an ancient ruin that his brother and wife are excavating.When the cousins working the dig don't show up the next morning to pick them up, the six have difficulty finding a taxi to take them to the ruins, and end up paying a local truck driver (Patricio Almeida Rodríguez) to take them there. At the edge of the jungle, they find the brother's truck abandoned on a dirt road. Matheas looks confused, but they decide to go ahead and look for the ruins themselves. They wander through the jungle, until they finally come across a clearing, and a high ancient ruin stands before them. While they all stand raptured at this hidden secret, the sound of horses and shouting men suddenly comes from behind them.The six vacationers turn around in surprise, and repeatedly try to find out what they clearly have done wrong. Men emerge from the jungle with bows and arrows, and an older man (Sergio Calderón) in the middle holds a silver revolver, staring them down. Amy stands in the back with her camera, and is instinctively taking pictures with her camera, not realizing how much danger they are in. The men instantly turn violent, and when Dimitri tries to hand over the camera in a sign of apology, he is shot in the chest with an arrow, and then shot in the face. Astounded, the friends retreat back from the men, up the ruins. Strangely enough, the men do not follow them, but do not leave the clearing.At the top of the summit, Matheas scrambles around looking for his cousins in the tents that they discovered. The others check their phones, but can't get a signal. Matheas finds the tents unpacked, but there is no sign of his cousin. Coming from the bottom of a deep shaft in the middle of the summit, they hear a cell phone ringing faintly. Desperate for a phone, Matheas loops a rope around him, and the other boys lower him slowly down the shaft by an overhead crank. It is slow going, until suddenly the rope snaps and Matheas plunges to the bottom.While the boys repair the rope, Stacey volunteers to go down the shaft after Matheas and the phone. They lower her slowly down the line, but it isn't quite long enough to take her all of the way. Stacey unhooks herself from the rope to drop to the dirt floor, but lands on a lantern with her knee. Having to pull out a shard of glass from her knee, Stacey winces and hobbles towards Matheas. He says that he is scared, and can't feel his legs. It's clear that his back is broken, so the remainder on the surface fashion a back-board to load him up on. Now it is Amy's turn to be lowered into the shaft; at the bottom, she and Stacey struggle to hoist Matheas on the backboard. All are lifted to the surface, and they survey the damage. While Jeff, a pre-med student, inspects Matheas' wounds, they all argue about what to do about their situation.Amy, at her wit's end, storms down the steps of the ruins to confront their captors. When she reaches the bottom and yells at them to help, they shout back in a language that she doesn't understand. Jeff runs to drag her away from the men, and out of frustration and anger, Amy rips a large chunk of some of the vines that cover the ruins and throws it at the menacing men. It hits a small boy and harmlessly falls to his feet, but the captors quickly turn their attention to the little boy, and shout at him, gesturing towards the ruins. The boy cries in protest, and after refusing to move, he is shot with bows and arrows down to the ground, while his mother looks on.Jeff and Amy run back to the summit, and report back what they saw to Stacey and Eric. They are all completely confused, and decide to go to sleep in the tent to wait for someone to come find them. In the morning, Stacey wakes up screaming. She looks down at her leg, and one of the vines from the ruins is clearly growing into the large cut she had on her knee. Screaming to have it taken out, Chris quickly goes to pull out the vine - and removes about a foot of greenage from her leg. They call for Jeff to take a look, while Amy stands by Matheas to check on him. Sweating and looking gray, Matheas asks Amy to pull the blanket from off of his body - he senses something is wrong with his legs. She obliges and screams as well, when they see that a massive amount of vines has sprouted overnight all over his lower half. They try to remove it the best they can, but he is severely injured and has cuts all over his skin. Amy knows what is going on now; they are being quarantined from whatever evil lurks in the ruins.The cell phone rings again from the shaft, and Stacey and Amy once again descend into the shaft to look for it. Armed with handmade torches, they begin a search of the inside, which is covered in the ominous vines. As they walk slowly down a hall, they hear the phone ringing again - a high pitched call. A woman lies with her back to them against a wall, and when they touch her, her body falls to the side and the friends scream. Calming themselves to continue with the search, Amy stares at one of the red flowers that now adorn the vines. As she gets closer, you can see that the inside of the red flower is vibrating. It, along with the other flowers, are actually recreating the sound of a cell phone ring by vibrating their stamens. Mesmerized, she goes to touch the flower, and the vines suddenly rear up in protest. The girls run to escape the vines' clutches, and are pulled up out of the shaft just in time.Explaining what happened to them in the shaft, Jeff inspects Matheas' wounds, and announces that there is no way that he will be able to survive if they don't amputate his legs immediately. Since help is not definite, Jeff says that there is no time to waste. Eric protests, and they put it to a vote. Unable to come to a consensus, Matheas weakly calls out to them that he wants them to do it. The girls go to the tent, while Jeff heats up a cast iron cooking pan in the fire. Eric is told to hold down Matheas, while Jeff breaks both leg bones and cuts them off with a hunting knife they found - and finally cauterizes them with the pan. Stacey and Amy clutch each other holding their ears, while they try to block out the screams.They come out when it is over, and watch as the vines retrieve the remaining flesh that Jeff had cut away. The vines are clearly carnivorous, and are waiting for them all to die. Another day gone by, Stacey and Amy go into one of the tents to try and sleep while Eric sits outside on watch. Amy can't sleep, and sits next to Eric while they talk about if they think Stacey is going to be alright. When Amy begins to cry, she leans her head into Eric's shoulder as they sit on a log. Stacey, inside the tent, awakens to the apparent moans and sighs that she believes is coming from Eric & Amy having sex. Furious, she storms out of the tent and accuses the both of them of sleeping together - insisting that she heard them.Amy and Eric both deny it, when Jeff walks up to see what the commotion is. Stacey screams at Amy, and when Jeff tries to intervene, she lashes out and tells him that Amy has cheated on him before. While the four friends argue, they leave Matheas un-guarded, and the vines come from the ruins and choke him. When they finally realize that they left him unattended, Jeff runs to his rescue, but is too late. The vines claim the remainder of his body.In the morning, Amy and Jeff sit next to each other at the top of the steps watching the sunrise. Eric emerges from his tent and asks Jeff to come see Stacey - it is clear that something is very wrong.They enter the tent, and Eric tells Stacey to show them her back. She lifts her shirt, and reveals a dark green patch growing under her skin, and a vine slithers like a snake under the surface. Outside, they decide that they have to cut it out of her. Amy clutches her while Stacey screams in agony. Jeff cuts a large gash by her knee, and grabs the vine that is attempting to burrow further into her leg. They ask her if she wants them to continue, and she cries out to tell them to keep going. They turn her on her back and Jeff makes a larger cut, pulling out foot after foot of vine from her back. Finally removed, they bandage her the best they can.Later, sitting by the fire, they each eat the last of the remaining food - four solitary grapes. Stacey seems slightly hysterical and insists that she can feel another one by her bones. Eric tells her that it's just in her head, but she then says that she can feel them in her head as well. They try and convince her that there isn't anything else in her body, and Amy offers her a pull from the bottle of tequila they found in the tent. Stacey drinks, and a flash of the wiggling vine shows up on her furrowed brow. The three friend's eyes open wide, and immediately look away so she can't see their reactions. Their silence says it all, and she tells them to cut again - Jeff says that there can't be anymore cutting - she has already lost too much blood.All four asleep, Stacey awakens first and ambles out of the tent. She hobbles along searching for the hunting knife that they used to cut out the vines the other day. Eric wakes up, and all three emerge from the tent to find Stacey standing in a pool of her own blood, slowly cutting herself to try and remove the invading weeds. They tell her to give them the knife - but she is clearly beyond reason. When Jeff tries to get her to hand it over, she lashes out and cuts him in the palm. Eric now tries to get her attention, and she turns and viciously buries the knife into his chest. Eric falls to the ground and dies from the knife wound, and the vines once again come forward to claim their meal. Stacey - screaming from the pain and realising what she has just done, begs Amy to kill her. While she begs, small vines wave from the cuts on her body. Amy looks pleadingly at Jeff, and Jeff quietly walks to Eric's body, and puts Stacey out of her misery.Jeff now smears blood on Amy's face and arms, and explains to her that she must run, while he creates a diversion. He walks down the steps holding her, presumably dead, in his arms, and lays her down on the ground. The men, still there, watch him warily, while Jeff starts a long tirade about himself and the people that they had let die. He wanders along the edge of the ruins, and on cue. Amy gets up suddenly and runs as fast as possible towards the abandoned Jeep they found earlier. The men shoot Jeff with several arrows, and the large man shoots him with the final bullet.Amy, chased by the men, incredibly manages to reach the Jeep and starts the car. She speeds away, down the road to an unknown fate. The next day, Demitris' two other friends that had planned to join them, entered the clearing, calling out their missing friend's name. - end***** BELOW IS THE SYNOPSIS OF THE BOOK *****On vacation in Cancun, six friends go on an excursion to visit an archaeological dig near Coba. Jeff, a type A guy who is set to begin medical school in the fall with his girlfriend, Amy; Stacy, Amy's best friend, an irresponsible and promiscuous aspiring social worker whose nickname is "Spacy" along with her boyfriend, Eric, an immature high school teacher; a fun-loving Greek guy nicknamed "Pablo," who lacks a common language with any of the others; and Mathias, an intense, thoughtful German tourist round out the cast of characters.Mathias' brother, Henrich, vanished shortly before the Americans and Greeks met Mathias--he met a beautiful Dutch archaeologist and decided to meet her at her dig, leaving a hastily drawn map for Mathias to follow in case he wanted to join him. Jeff, Stacy, Amy, Eric, and Pablo decide to accompany Mathias in his search for his brother, taking a bus to Coba for the day. Pablo leaves a copy of the map at their hotel for his two companions--who had gone to fish--to find, thinking that they may want to join the group. Things immediately start to go wrong, as the group isn't well prepared for the heat and insects, and the journey becomes creepy. The poorly drawn map leads them to a Mayan village, where the grievously poor inhabitants appear at first disinterested, and then hostile to the foreigners. The Mayans try to force the vacationers to leave the area. Unmoved by the villagers pleas, they find an almost-hidden trail that they follow to the ruins.Gun, rifle, and bow-and-arrow wielding Mayan villagers then will not allow the kids to leave. They are forced to climb a large hill covered in vines and red flowers. The situation turns increasingly disturbing as they find Henrich's corpse, covered in the vine and flowers.Further investigation uncovers numerous other corpses covered in the plant, and the plant, it turns out, secretes an acidic sap which burns them all when it is crushed.A ringing mobile phone at the bottom of the mine under the hill lures Pablo, but the rope breaks as he attempts to retrieve it and he falls, breaking his back. Eric is injured slightly trying to rescue him.Gradually, the group discovers that the vine is sentient and carnivorous, as it begins to lure them to their deaths - one by one - perfectly mimicking the voices of others.Jeff and Mathias amputate Pablo's legs after the plant eats part of them.Amy is the first to go, strangled by the plant whilst Jeff - angry at her for being drunk, ignores her struggles, mistaking for strangled cries for sickness. The plant enters Eric's wound and, though they had removed the bulk of it, Eric insists it's still inside him as he repeatedly cuts himself in an effort to remove it.Jeff is able to hold the group together to a certain extent, always with new ideas about how to conquer their challenges. But, he is ultimately killed by the villagers' arrows while trying to sneak past them. Air-headed and distressed Stacy -- who has held the hope until the last that the other two Greeks will arrive to save them leaves Pablo unattended, and the plant kills and eats him. Eric flays himself alive trying to remove the plant, which has begun to take over his body again, and then accidentally kills Mathias with his knife when Mathias attempts to stop him. With only Eric and Stacy left, Eric begs her to kill him and put him out of his misery, which she ultimately does. Then, she slashes her wrists on the path at the base of the hill as a warning to others, but the plant moves her away, just as it did other warning signs put up by other victims.The Mayans leave.Three days later, Pablo's two Greek friends, with a few Brazilians, climb onto the hill to seek out their traveling companion, bringing several others with them.*THIS IS A SYNOPSIS OF THE BOOK..NOT THE MOVIE.*

Tags: violence, horror, murder

Review:
I wasn't too psyched for this movie beforehand, but I got a free pass and figured why the hell not and wound up seeing one of the better horror films I've seen in a good while.
Thes best thing I can say about "The Ruins" is that it plays its hand honestly, there's no tweeny BS, no winking at the camera, it's just a classic situational horror film that just keeps getting from bad to worse in the best possible way.
It's clever in a sense, creepy to the bone and new with an insane entertainment level that it keeps your attention and doesn't let go.I found the "creatures" an effective and nice, sinister twist to deal with next to the other conflict of being stranded upon the Mayan ruins away from all civilization except the natives who are hellbent on letting them die up there, and I thought while the characters were stupid, that was the right way to handle the situation considering that most people would lose their wit in situations like that after some time, and I always like it when horrors try to make their characters believable, because that makes up for them not being special.
It was so compellingly good just to watch what all happened, and I really enjoyed the scenes and thought that it had excellent suspense and a wonderful atmosphere of claustrophobia and paranoia.Yes, it gets a little bland around the edges, and like I said, it's not like it ranks among the greatest films of all time, but I truly do think it is a satisfying taste of what effective, legendary horrors could do if they were made with better care, because it has all the right substances, but just falls flat a little with it's slight mediocrity.
It has all the hallmarks of being yet another in a sad long line of horror movies that con the faithful into watching it, only to disappoint with an unadventurous plot, making a quick bit of cash before disappearing in the stale popcorn tinted wind.
Our fears that this is going to be just another case of guessing what order the young holiday makers are going to be sliced and diced, are quickly vanquished, this is a tale of survival, of a youthful group dynamic under severe threat, and bonus here is that the antagonist is something very different to what normally stalks these genre movies.This really could have been a cheese fest, an unintentionally funny film, using gore and nudity to hide shortcomings in the screenplay, but it's not, writer Scott Smith has provided director and cast with material that pulses with an unexpected bleakness, a facing up to mortality at a young age, and crucially the characters do viable things given their circumstance, and that's mighty refreshing in a era of horror bulging with stupidity.
Most American horror movies seem to want to rush through the opening scenes, to get to the so-called scare moments, but Smith takes time with his plot, as he did with his other script, the brilliant A Simple Plan.
The script allows time for the cast to make their characters believable (for a horror movie)and as the horror and terror mounts, they react in different ways.The direction by Carter Smith is good.
One of the better horror films of recent years, is creepy and scary and the sort of thing that makes your skin crawl.
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.
However, this movie on the other hand delivers a couple of scares and some intensely disturbing images that will make you look the other way.The film focuses on four college students who are on a vacation in Mexico and then suddenly they meet a stranger who invites them to a place that is not even on the map, (So far there is already a typical horror cliché).
I have to tell you from the minute that I saw The Ruins trailer, I knew I wanted to see this movie, we've been needing a good horror movie, especially for 2008.
It's a typical horror movie mistake, characters are neglected and we are left guessing, but this is still worth the watch for the non-stop scares.A four friends are on vacation in Mexico, just enjoying the time, getting drunk, dancing, the usual stuff.
They have to figure a way out while being trapped there by the armed tribe, but something has gotten "under their skin".The Ruins is a decent horror movie, the best I've seen?
So after reading the book before the I wanted to see the film it made me more anxious for the film to be released, and to be honest it was a fresh cup of horror.The Ruins tells the story of four Americans who travel with a German to an Ancient Mayan temple for a leisurely vacation, but when they stumble against unfriendly locals their lives change forever.This is not your average clichéd horror *cough* Prom Night *cough*, but it delivers a new way to terrorize the audience.
The acting is superb and their emotions shine through, the death scenes were fairly gory and very depressing but the ending only slightly tips me off.Overall, The Ruins is a new type of horror that you should consider seeing, maybe once, but just a piece of advice: I recommend that you read the original novel by Scott Smith first before seeing the film..
Spine-tingling survival horror film based on the novel by Scott Smith is one effectively shocking thrill ride.American college students on vacation in Mexico become stranded on an ancient Mayan temple where their lives are threatened by a surprising and deadly force.The Ruins surpassed all my expectations.
The disappointingly predictable succession of related shots and scenes contributed to the underdevelopment of the horrifying phase of the film.The crew responsible for producing the trailer deserve considerable recognition for masterfully presenting a set of sequences that attracted seemingly larger-than-deserved opening weekend crowds for such a cinematic fiasco of the horror genre.In my opinion The Ruins will be disregarded as one of the least scariest movies in film history, despite its lurid gruesomeness..
From obvious directing mistakes in the first 15 minutes of the movie, to lame acting to hysterical special effects, this falls into the pit of another bad horror flick.
So, of course, being smart horror movie characters, they go deeper into the ruins that have killed everyone else so far.
Plus there is eye-candy aplenty for viewers of both sexes (I was more than happy with both brunette Jena Malone as the tasty nerd type, and blonde hottie Laura Ramsey, who obligingly strips off at the beginning of the film).By no means a particularly good movie, The Ruins still gets a very reasonable 6/10 just for being able to keep me interested 'til the end, and providing me with a few giggles along the way..
I saw the Ruins last night, and from the beginning credits i noticed Dream works had something to do with the filming, so i thought hey this shouldn't be bad, well i was so wrong, it was the worse movie i had ever saw and i enjoy mostly horror and thrillers even the down right cheesy one but this one takes the cake, i think who ever wrote this film shouldn't be writing movies ever again, the movie was a big joke.....i wish i could have gotten my money back, the funny thing is everybody around me and my friend in the theater thought the same thing and at the end there were a lot a lot of boos being said, actually pretty funny....My overall opinion of the RUINS, i would have to give it 1 star and a 10 star to say it down right sucked.....
the movie had some new ideas, but considering that the majority of the movie is spent with the characters at the ruins, and that this is a horror movie, the people at our theater including myself laughed the whole time.
just like in every horror movie, there is a lot of stupid kids who do a lot of stupid things that even the most idiotic people in the world wouldn't even do, and then they end up somewhere they shouldn't, doing more stupid things they shouldn't be doing.
Most of the modern horror movies are not trying to come up with something interesting as and idea, they just want to put as much blood as they can, so the viewer can turn his head in disgust or for the hardcore fans,enjoy the cutting, the burning and the screaming of the victims.
I wish that hour and twenty minutes back, I could have picked my ass at least 200 times or I could have been taking a nap, Probably watching a better movie like Finding Nemo.
I'm not sure if there's a lot of lot of horror movies which the plot is passed inside a Mayan temple, but I didn't watch any other at least But if we exclude this "possible novelty" I think all the rest is pure average and even unsatisfying.
The situation they find themselves in is completely ludicrous and then when you realise what the main evil thing is you just laugh because it is completely ridiculous.Obviously being a horror movie the hot blonde has to get naked and then find excuses to take her clothes off whenever possible and there has got to be lots of blood and gore.
The movie succeeds with both these tasks but in the most mundane routine way possible which leaves you completely uninterested in the plot and in the characters fates.In summary, its a below average horror movie that doesn't really make any sense and you know exactly what is going to happen the entire way through which just makes the whole experience feel old and overgrown..
I'd recommend anyone who likes a good horror read to get this book, even if you didn't care for the movie.Now onto the movie.
The acting is great and the cinematography brings out the terror in the daylight which is somewhat unusual for a horror film.The one thing I felt this movie was lacking was the suspense and terror of being trapped onto of the ruins.
Some; one scene, not much is shown.Like "Cloverfield," you laugh, you cry, you get slightly disturbed but you leave the theatre with a grin on your face knowing you didn't waste that $7.50.So if you're looking for a movie to watch tonight, "The Ruins" is a good bet..
The Ruins is probably one of the best horror movies i've seen in a while.
About a quarter of the way into "The Ruins" I thought to myself, "take out the gore, the nudity and the swearing and you've got yourself one cool little 1960's monster movie".Seriously.While "The Ruins" will certainly not appeal to everyone (the crowd I saw an advanced screening with last night didn't seem to like it much), I think those with an appreciation of the genre, especially those weened on the classic horror flicks of yesteryear will find this an enjoyable, albeit disturbing and graphic, retread of stuff like "Day of the Triffids" and other similar killer plant movies.It moves along at a brisk pace and the characters do things that normal people probably would (a rarity in horror films).There are definitely moments of graphic violence that won't set well with parents or people who are squeamish by nature.
Characters were undeveloped, the monsters (plants in this case) left unexplained, and clichés were dripping all over.The only thing that is mildly effective are some of the bloody/gory scenes, although the gore pales in comparison with movies like High Tension or Ichi The Killer.
Smith, writer of "A Simple Plan" (the novel and the 1998 movie), also wrote the 2008 novel & film "The Ruins," which is about two college couples vacationing in Mexico who hook up with a German and visit an unknown Mayan pyramid off the beaten track.
They are terrorized when local Natives surround the pyramid with deadly weapons, refusing to permit them to leave, and more horrified by the reason why!"The Ruins" refuses to make the mistake of too many conventional horror flicks by not going over-the-top with the situation, the "monster" or the horror/thrills, which makes these films more goofy than horrifying.
For instance, take the ending of "The Ruins" (which is different than the book and, in my opinion, better): In a typical horror movie there would've been a wild (i.e. thrilling but totally unbelievable) vehicle pursuit by the Mayan descendants; not here.
I found myself, as well as the other 6 people in the audience laughing at this film, not for its comedic value, but for the fact that someone actually thought this was a movie worth making (which, in itself, is funny enough).
If you see the movie first, you'll never believe that the story you watched could be a good book, but you'll be missing out..
When watching the previews, and the commercials on TV, I honestly thought this movie was going to be slightly different than other horror flops.4 Americans go on a vacation to Mexico.
Later  and sadly when the movie already left theaters  I learned that "The Ruins" actually revolves on murderous flesh-eating plants and some websites and reviews even made comparisons between this film and "Day of the Triffids" (which just happens to be a huge personal favorite of mine), so I couldn't wait until it came out on rental.
It was so much better than I expected, and would have to say it was one of the best horror movies I have ever seen.
You really feel so much for the characters, nothing like in any horror movie before and at parts, its hard to watch what they have to go through.
A group of four college graduates are enjoying an exotic vacation in Mexico.When another traveler,German named Mathias,approaches Amy, Stacy,Jeff and Eric with a proposal to head into the jungle in search on an archaeological site where his brother has disappeared,they agree to go with him.Big mistake.Once there they quickly find themselves cornered in by tribesmen unwilling to let them leave alive.Unlucky for them the main danger is growing on Mayan temple.The vines are thirsty for human blood...Scott Smith adapts his own gruesome novel,but why he decided to change extremely pessimistic ending of the book is beyond me.Still the film is watchable and surprisingly bleak.It spills plenty of blood and gore and its characters are believable and care for each other.Of course they do some stupid things like exploring dark corners or descending through deep holes in search of a phone.Overall,"The Ruins" is a fine piece of survival horror that is much better than most of the crap being put out today..
All "The Ruins" proved to be was several re-hashed ideas from other bad horror movies over the last decade.Without giving much of the story away, imagine a 90 minute play combining Cabin Fever, Touristas, and Hostel where there is only about 4 pages of scripted dialog, no opportunity for the audience to connect with the characters, and no good resolution in the end.This kind of film has become a disturbing trend in the industry and has unfortunately led the horror genre into more of a "shock horror" line of crap designed to gross out the viewer.
But while the movie does come dangerously close to that line a few times, the actors and characters manage to generate enough sympathy that I felt bad for them, as opposed to wanting to hasten their deaths.Killer plants can either sound really cool or really silly, depending on how much of a horror fan you are (or at least, how much of an optimist you are).
It's appropriate gore (lol) for the premise, and it's disturbing to look at but hard to turn away from.The actors are really hot, which isn't necessarily a good thing for horrors as it might lead to stereotyping the movie as "B," but surprisingly, the two leads had just come off solid turns in acclaimed movies (Jonathan Tucker, from In the Valley of Elah, and Jena Malone, from Into the Wild) and I can't help but to wonder why they took a step backwards in their career (well okay, it was probably for the money).I could guess how the movie would end long before it did, so that was kinda disappointing.
The Ruins is no more a life affirming movie than the book on which it is based is a feel-good page-turner.
Well worth the watch, one of the best pure horror movies i've seen.
What certain characters endure in the movie is not the same as the book down to the very ending of the film being completely different from the on the book.
The acting is pretty good by most of the people involved and the special effects were solid it was just the story line that i had a problem with.So this movie is about a group of friends who travel to Mexico for a vacation.
The Ruins is a great horror movie, it's got plenty of gore, jumps, twists, and the other good stuff, along with a good villain.
Unlike most movies, this movie makes you feel like you are trapped with the characters in the ruins.
the directors always film in Mexico eh, there are a lot of better places to filmThe movie is kind of ordinary and you can guess some stuff,The movie don't have a story about what happened in those ruins or About the things that happens in there...
The idea is definitely something different and the whole concept of the story is almost original when you compare it to the overload of horror remakes we've been getting for so many years now.The acting in this film is rather competent, and the character's aren't complete idiots like some of them seem to be in the novel.
I'll say no more.The Ruins is one of the better horror movies to come out this year.