The Ruins
A group of friends become entangled in a brutal struggle for survival after visiting a remote archaeological dig in the Mexican jungle - where they discover something deadly living among the ruins.
29 April 1985, Nizhniy Tagil, Sverdlovskaya oblast, RSFSR, USSR [now Russia]
14 November 1982, Brandon, Wisconsin, USA
26 March 1982, England, UK
21 November 1984, Sparks, Nevada, USA
21 July 1945, Coatlan del Rio, Morelos, Mexico
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.
August 22, 2010
Watchable killer-plant horror movie.
April 07, 2008
The Ruins does what a good psychological horror movie should do: rely on tension rather than gore to achieve its aims.
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.
April 07, 2008
The usual gore-and-gristle fare, but this one serves it up with a tad more suggestiveness and smarts.
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.
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.
December 17, 2010
Tourists vs. flesh-eating vines; guess who wins?
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 11, 2008
A more than satisfactory scare fest.
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.
