Watch unlimited films online for $6.99.
Try MUBI for FREE.
 

The Ruins

Australia, Germany, United States

2008

90 Min
Color
2.35:1
German, Greek, Maya, Spanish, English
  • Currently 2.4/5 Stars.
  • 1
  • 2
  • 3
  • 4
  • 5

   |   

DIR Carter Smith

EXEC Gary Barber, Roger Birnbaum, Trish Hofmann, Ben Stiller

PROD Chris Bender, Stuart Cornfeld, Jeremy Kramer

SCR Scott B. Smith

DP Darius Khondji

CAST Jonathan Tucker, Jena Malone, Laura Ramsey, Shawn Ashmore, Joe Anderson, Sergio Calderón, Jesse Ramirez, Balder Moreno, Dimitri Baveas

ED Jeff Betancourt

PROD DES Grant Major

MUSIC Graeme Revell

Synopsis

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 archeological field where his brother Henrich and his girlfriend are camped eighteen kilometers far from the resort. They hire an old taxi and when they reach the spot, they are surrounded by Mayan villagers armed of revolver, rifle and bow-and-arrow 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 realize that they had been lured by the plants that are vibrating with the sound of a cell phone. When they are attacked by the carnivorous creeping plants, they understand the reaction of the Mayan villagers. –IMDb

Wall

Displaying 4 wall posts.
Picture of Drunken Father Figure of Old

Drunken Father Figure of Old

8Nov11

What a pleasant surprise!! I rented it cause I felt like laughing at a bad movie and watch attractive leads die, but it turned out to be really effectively gruesome! And there were several surprising plot twists!

Picture of Scout

Scout

5Jun11

Lean and grim, I liked its elegant simplicity and despite it having a believable set of characters and a relationship dynamic I can relate to, it's unrelentingly bleak which I think does the book justice.

Picture of Adam Eisentrout

Adam Eisentrout

25Apr11

Great Book. Not so great film adaptation.

Picture of Christopher Smith

Christopher Smith

25Oct10

The only original thing about this generic horror film is the fact that the monster picking off the usual cast of nubile teenagers are some ridiculous carnivorous vines - other than that, this is a bland and predictable paint-by-numbers gorefest. Basically 90 minutes of filthy young stars crying, even the graphic gore scenes fail to generate any tension or suspense.

Related Films

Fans

Displaying 5 of 17 fans.

Lists

Displaying 5 of 19 lists.

Reviews

No reviews yet — Write the first

Forum

Displaying 0 discussion topics.