The Ruins(2008).While on vacation in a resort in Mexico, the Americans Jeff, his girlfriend Amy, her best friend Stacy and her boyfriend Eric befriend the German Mathias in the swimming pool. Mathias invites the group to visit the ruins of a Mayan temple with his Greek friend Dimitri in an archaeological field where his brother Henrich and his girlfriend are camped eighteen kilometers from the resort. They hire an old taxi and when they reach the spot, they are surrounded by Mayan villagers armed of revolvers, rifles and bows-and-arrows that kill Dimitri and do not allow the group to leave the place. They climb a construction covered of creepers with red flowers, and remain under siege of the locals. When they hear a cell phone in the bottom of a well, Mathias decides to seek the apparatus using a rope that breaks and he has a serious accident breaking his back. Amy and Stacy go to the bottom of the mine to rescue Mathias and they find many corpses covered by the climbing plants; further, they ... Written byClaudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil... Synopsis The Ruins(2008)
Movie Title: The Ruins(2008)
Run Time: 90 min
Rating: 5.8 / 10
Genres: Horror |Thriller
Release Date: 4 April 2008 (USA)
Director: Carter Smith
Writer: Scott B. Smith ,Scott B. Smith (novel)... and other credits
Actor: Shawn Ashmore,Jena Malone,Jonathan Tucker
Director Eli Roth should take note of and learn from this film. It is what Cabin Fever hoped to be... spooky.
Two twenty-something couples are vacationing in Mexico when they are invited to witness the excavation of some ancient ruins. Instead of fun and excitement, however, the four are held captive at top of the ruins by the locals. But it isn't long before they find they may be in even greater danger. Something cunning, hungry, and green has a taste for human flesh and the four vacationers have rung the dinner bell.
The characters seemed real. The mood was gripping. There were some good scares. I enjoyed it.
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