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well actually the ruins was this kind of film like you could just say " why would they go there??" lol I expected that this would be good , but the way the film show how this flower stuff was crazy I was hyped and i was thrilled actually mid I thought Jena Malone was the final girl (there is no escape in white people's??😭)

My supervisor hooked me up with 2 free passes for this yesterday and I somehow managed to rope my girlfriend (who never watches scary movies) into going with me. We got to the theater and just about EVERY SINGLE SEAT WAS FILLED!! I was silently praying that this movie wasn't going to suck. I was right. This movie was awesome. The leads were all great. With the exception of Sean Ashmore, I knew I'd seen the others somewhere before but couldn't remember, adding that "fresh-face" quality. The set-up for the characters didn't last any longer than it should have and introduced us to our heroes quite nicely. Before you know it, we're off to the Mayan ruins to get mutilated. This films was different in how it presented the killer and the direction it went afterwards. Also, the gore was just sick son. HOSTEL ain't got nothing on this. Cool flick. I so would have paid for it if not for the free passes...

This movie was really awful. It was not in the least bit frightening, or even startling. I went to see it with a bunch of friends and by the end of the night we were saying "The Ruins ruined my night." I would not recommend seeing this movie in theaters, renting it or even watching the movie on television by accident.It is an absolute waste of an hour and a half. The plot was nearly non-existent, the characters were horribly underdeveloped, and they gave no back story whatsoever for anything that was happening, and then left it completely open at the end as if preparing for a sequel.

The characters are spoiled, vapid lame brains. There's no one to cheer for. I am so tried of movies where the characters have to make bad, stupid decisions in orders for the plot to make sense. Killer foliage ? This just not threatening enough. Plant matter is so fragile. And there were just so many logical ways to deal with the lame attacks. The junk about "not getting" a signal on a cell phone is wearing thin. The first appearance by the vines is laughable. All 30 people in the theatre last Friday broke out laughing. The mimicking flowers sent us all over the edge. Clearly what worked in the novel, and our own imaginations, simply does nott transfer to film well. It's no wonder it bombed at the box office. It's silly and unbelievable . And every thrill is telegraphed to the audience minutes before it happens. My 14 year nephew got bored and went to see Nim's Island. The acting was so god-awful. Who are these people?? None of the pretty boys and girls could convey an honest sentence of dialog if their life depended on it. Are the actors from TV shows or just cheap labor? In a way I am glad it failed, perhaps now the coke heads of Hollywood will stop shoving hip horror films down the throats of our cinemas.

You already know the drill. You've seen what this genre can produce before, and you're pretty sure you've seen the best and the worst of it. From bygone days, JUST BEFORE DAWN. HELL NIGHT. MY BLOODY VALENTINE. LAST HOUSE ON THE LEFT. THE HILLS HAVE EYES. THE EVIL DEAD. And from the past couple of decades, HOSTEL. TURISTAS. WRONG TURN. JOY RIDE. And of course, the film to which THE RUINS will probably get the most comparisons, CABIN FEVER. Except instead of being set out in the middle of CHAINSAW territory, now it's an ancient sprawl of Mayan ruins. The fact that Four Beautiful Gen-X'ers are involved is about where the similarities end. Mr. Eli Roth, I'm sorry to inform you that you got served. Because just when you think that THE RUINS is really nothing more than just another yawn-inducing slasher movie, it takes this turn into THE OUTER LIMITS that you don't ever expect it to. And it's so much the better - and more terrifying - for that. Jonathan Tucker (HOSTAGE, Showtime's MASTERS OF HORROR), Jena Malone (BASTARD OUT OF CAROLINA), Shawn Ashmore (the X-MEN series) and Laura Ramsey (LORDS OF DOGTOWN) star as two best friends and their respective boyfriends on vacation in Mexico, for a period of beaches, booze and "knockin' da boots" before Tucker's character, Jeff, takes the educational equivalent of the Bataan Death March: attending med school. The whole nightmare starts pretty simply, as nightmares often do in these things. The two couples meet cute with a German tourist, Mathias (Joe Anderson), whose own girlfriend, an archaeologist, has gone to her latest dig with Mathias's brother. He invites his new friends to come with, and since there's not much more excitement to be had, other than getting fit-to-puke drunk on too much cheap tequila, they take him up on his offer. Really. Bad. Move. The Fearless Foursome go to the dig site with Mathias and his friend, Dimitri (Dimitri Baveas) and nothing too alarming or remarkable happens along the way. It's when they get there that the fajitas really hit the fan. Because this set of ruins is no ordinary dig site. And if you have prepared yourself in advance for the ghost of some ticked-off Mayan god ready to rip out the hearts of these intruding Americanos, you are way off-base, my friend. What they find is more insidious, horrific and literally creepy than anything you've seen in a long, LONG time. Kudos must immediately go to Scott Smith, the author of A SIMPLE PLAN, for adapting his page-turner of a runaway bestseller into something that should make Stephen King green with envy. The core idea is not an original one, but the way Smith uses it and his depictions of how it affects the characters involved is Grade-A 100% pure classic horror. Director Carter Smith, with his major movie debut, is great at ratcheting up the scares and the gore quotient as he wrings some pretty genuine performances from his cast. But the nasty creepiness and dread are just the black frosting on this rotting cake. Dig underneath and you get some super bonuses: one scene that will forever make the "hobbling" scene from MISERY seem like a Sesame Street cakewalk, and one unbelievably goose-bump raising sequence that will forever have you getting freaked out about your cell phone. I can't tell you why...because the less you know about it, the more terrifying it is. Yes, the creative forces here make the most of milking the themes of isolation, hopelessness and impending death. But it's the HOW, not the why that sets THE RUINS apart from any other movie of its kind that's been made before or since. Right now, I would rank this one right up there with Neil Marshall's THE DESCENT as one of the Top Ten Best Horror Films made in this decade. Gee, in spite of all the remakes still ongoing, maybe there is still some hope for horror after all. I can promise you this much: THE RUINS is as good a description for what your nerves will be like by the climax, as it is the title of a very good horror thriller.

One of the better horror films of recent years, is creepy and scary and the sort of thing that makes your skin crawl. Its a simple story- several tourists go to a temple in the Mexican jungle that happens to be off the beaten path. There is of course something there and the locals are not happy about visitors. I won't say more since I'm going tempted to tell you way too much...which would be too much since the plot is simple. Its almost too simple. 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. Its short, its sweet and it works. Its not perfect, there are one or two things I didn't like, but on the whole its a very good very creepy film. Frankly while Brazil got upset about Touristas a year because it might make think people about going there, Mexico should worry since this film will make anyone think again about going into ancient ruins. (7.5 ish out of 10 on the horror scale because thinking about the screams makes my skin crawl)