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The Ruins
Directed by
Carter Smith
R
2008
1h 31m
Horror
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Adventure
,
and more
5.9
52%
30%
5.9
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A leisurely Mexican holiday takes a turn for the worse when a group of friends and a fellow tourist embark on a remote archaeological dig in the jungle, where something evil lives among the ruins.
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Cast of The Ruins
Jonathan Tucker
Jeff McIntire
Jena Malone
Amy
Shawn Ashmore
Eric
Laura Ramsey
Stacy
Joe Anderson
Mathias
Sergio Calderón
Lead Mayan
Jesse Ramirez
Mayan Bowman
Balder Moreno
Mayan Horseman
Dimitri Baveas
Dimitri
Patricio Almeida Rodriguez
Taxi Driver
Mario Jurado
Mayan Archer
Luis Antonio Ramos
Mayan Rifleman
Bar Paly
Archeologist
Jordan Patrick Smith
Heinrich
Karen Strassman
Additional Vine Vocal (voice)
Robert Munns
Groundskeeper (uncredited)
Carter Smith
Director
Scott B. Smith
Screenplay
Chris Bender
Producer
Stuart Cornfeld
Producer
The Ruins Ratings & Reviews
Austin Chronicle
Marc Savlov
Smith's singularly bizarre novel managed what this film cannot: fear and sympathy.
DVD Review
Felix Gonzalez Jr.
... soft-core torture porn that quite literally sets up its pretty, Hollywood protagonists for brutal sacrifice.
Cinema Signals
Jules Brenner
Not just if you're a horror fan but also if you enjoy a well fashioned, slimy yarn to get wrapped up in.
JoBlo's Movie Network
JoBlo
I enjoyed most of the picture, particularly its ending, which much like the rest of the movie, remained pretty dark and pessimistic.
Groucho Reviews
Peter Canavese
Competent but somewhat slack, modest (and modestly budgeted) shocker that doesn't work quite hard enough to justify its plot mechanics. [Blu-Ray]
Movie Metropolis
John J. Puccio
...gets bloodier as it goes along, substituting close-up gore for horror, grossness for fright. (Unrated Edition)
AV Club
Scott Tobias
In compressing the novel down to a sloppy abridgement, the film fails to capture the eerie portent of its setting.
Newsday
Gene Seymour
The usual gore-and-gristle fare, but this one serves it up with a tad more suggestiveness and smarts.
New York Times
Matt Zoller Seitz
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.
Entertainment Weekly
Owen Gleiberman
The Ruins is lumpish, static, and obvious. It's a gringos-go-home cautionary fright flick done in the spirit of a cheap '50s horror movie, except that it leaves you longing for the competence of grade-Z studio-system trash.
Boston Globe
Wesley Morris
A surprisingly effective little horror nightmare.
New York Post
Kyle Smith
When you've got cute young tourists, an exotic locale (well, sort of: Mexico), ancient Mayan hoodoo and surly peasants with machetes, you expect a bit more than The Ruins gives you, which is: killer plants.
The Hollywood Reporter
Kirk Honeycutt
While not as silly as it sounds, it nevertheless is silly (as are most horror films), and while certainly different, the payoff isn't there.
Slant Magazine
Nick Schager
The film's depiction of deteriorating-under-pressure group dynamics comes to an abrupt end just as it gets going
Variety
Dennis Harvey
Squabbling among the skin-deep characters doesn't induce much sympathy, though thesps do their best.
eye WEEKLY
Adam Nayman
Paranoia, spinal injuries, psychic distress, impromptu amputations, self-mutilation -- it's all in there, convincingly rendered (the first-rate sound design exacerbates every fracture) and finally pointless.
Los Angeles Times
Mark Olsen
Not even a fixer-upper, The Ruins should be considered a complete tear-down.
MovieFreak.com
Sara Michelle Fetters
It's a good film, sometimes beautifully so, and if people don't come out of this one a little shaken up and disturbed then they probably need to be checked for a pulse.
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