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The Ruins Movie Review

May 08, 2019

The Ruins is the ultimate 2000’s horror movie - way more budget than it’s worth, and interesting enough premise, and tons of schlock. It also stars the most notable nobody of any film ever, Jena Malone, whom you have definitely seen in something but probably can’t remember what. This is the most notable movie by director Carter Smith. I went into The Ruins movie remembering people calling it ‘distasteful,’ and I came out of it rather delighted.

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The Ruins Movie Synopsis

The Ruins focuses on a group of five spring breakers in Mexico who wander off the beaten path and find more than they bargained for. The group gets wind of a hidden and archeological site where some Mayan ruins have recently been uncovered. They hitch a ride to a remote section of the forest and do everything in their power to find what was supposed to be kept hidden.

A group of locals has gone to considerable effort to keep
the path to the ruins hidden, but our bumbling crew of 20 somethings managed to
stumble their way onto a giant Mayan ruin, WAY out in the open, which is
covered intermittently with vines. Upon finding the ruins, the group is
confronted by a band of locals with guns who chase the group onto the pyramid
after one of them touches some of the plants that are growing on it.

The group tries to find the previous party whom they came to
unite with, and are met with a mystery along with a few human remains. As time
goes on, they start to realize that their GROWING desire to LEAF may not be as
FRUITFUL as the new ROOTS that they have laid down on their pyramid DIGS.

If that series of puns seemed stupid to you, good, that
should prepare you for this hokey thrillfest.

The Ruins Trailer

https://youtu.be/vzdto154_to

The Ruins Score

5/10

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The Ruins Spoilers and Discussion

The premise behind The Ruins is as 2000’s era as you can get. Good looking party kids meet up with a foreigner from Munich, Mathias, (Joe Anderson) and decide to head way off the resort they are partying at to see if they can find Mathias’ brother. His brother is doing archaeology work and has found previously undiscovered Mayan ruins in the jungle.

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