Review of The Ritual (2017) by Spiralus — 14 Feb 2018
This was masterfully done. As with all horror films, If you don't like horror films you should give it a miss and certainly refrain from reviewing it. Everything here was meticulously crafted. The attention to detail, sound scape, visual effects, performances, story, pacing and even the script were all first rate.
Very few budget horror films are able to pull this off. It's probably the best in what Ill consider it's genre (scary forest movies). People will compare it to other movies in it's niche because it's easy for them to do so.
Fine. Neat. Its like blair witch in the same sense that star trek is like star wars. For me it was a better depiction of Lovecraft-style helplessness than I've ever seen. It also featured probably the best creature design and execution I've seen since Alien.
Finally it managed to change out its rythm and rules set like modern masterpiece horror films such as "martyrs" were able to do. Like martyrs, this film will be wildly underrated. It will also likely be lost for many in the ocean of content coming out.
I hope the creators receive the praise they deserve. I'm very glad I saw it. If you like lovecraft, horror, mud or monsters I highly recommend this. The critics are wrong again.
This review of The Ritual (2017) was written by Spiralus on 14 Feb 2018.
The Ritual has generally received positive reviews.
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