Review of The Ruins (2008) by Abraham S — 08 Dec 2013

Surprisingly graphic, tense, and eerie, I feel The Ruins has found a number of successes. Though far from a great horror film, the Ruins never pretends to be something it's not - and what it is is a story of four friends who meet a german backpacker whilst on vacation in Cancun and decide to join him in an ultimately doomed mission to an off-the-map Mayan pyramid.

The rest of the film, about an hour, takes place on this pyramid where they are unable to leave and are viciously torn apart and psychologically broken down by the 'living' plants that call the pyramid home.

I liked it - a lot. I think any lover of the young, gorey, american tourist cliched horror sub-genre would love it. I'd watch it again for sure and share it with a few friends.