Review of The Ritual (2017) by Joseph C — 15 Feb 2018

An absolutely terrible movie that I couldn't actually finish. Instead I got to the half way point and started just skipping fives seconds and watching 1 second until I reached the end.

If you haven't watched this yet, you shouldn't waste your time. This movie suffers from a severe case of victims with bad judgement . I personally could have written a better horror movie than the staff of people who likely wrote this. The individuals who approved this story line should get out of the creative business entirely, since they feel the need to violate every single horror movie cliche possible. If you can't write your characters with common sense then you can't write.

Here are some of the biggest reasons you shouldn't watch this movie:

1) Every character has a nightmare and one wake up five holes in his chest. All characters agree to continue on their journey.

2) After one character escapes the woods he doesn't turn around and proceed to light the entire forest of dead wood on fire and kill the awful demon living in the hellish nightmare of a land.

3) Confronted with a robbery where the character finds a woman cashier beaten. The character refused to give a $50 wedding ring for sentimental reason and dies in a wine store after getting hacked to pieces with a machete.

4) The main character is hiding in a wine store surrounded by (5 - 10lb) wine bottles while two violent robbers are sticking up the wine store, one with a knife. Come on your utter unnoticed sissy, just start chunking wine bottles as hard as you can from ten feet a way. The fact that we are suppose to believe that the main character being equipped with more than enough weaponry to stop the robbery still hides and watches his friend die starts this movie with a strike in less than five minutes. Before you doubt this point, let someone a fully grown man throw an unopened wine bottle at the side of your face as hard as he can then see how good you are at both running and stabbing while more wine bottles get thrown at your face.