Going in to the Ruins, I expected mediocrity; the ads on TV sort of reminded me of the dreadful Turistas. I went to see it anyway, and it was fantastic: horrifying, disturbing, gory, and had moments where I even laughed out loud after getting oral sex in the beginning--which you don't see--one of the main characters asks another why he seems so happy afterwards , to which all he does is smirk . Then it begins to get eerie and ominous.A fellow tourist in the resort that these 4 Americans are befriends them, and asks if they want to go see some of the ruins--his brother had gone there <more> with a girl he met and hasn't returned yet their fates presumably revealed in the creepy opening scene . They go along, and after that, all hell breaks loose.Six people depart for the ruins, and when they get at the base of the temple, many of the locals surround them. Everything was fine until Amy steps on one of the vines, and the locals freak out, killing one of the group someone that no one really knows ...The locals threaten the other five, and they go up the temple where the locals wont follow them . Panicking, they try to think of a way out. Finally, they hear a cell phone ring coming from inside the temple. Mathias, the tourist whose brother has gone missing, notes that it is, in fact, his brothers cell phone ring tone. He volunteers to go into the temple via rope, but it breaks towards the top, and he falls down into the temple, paralyzed. Stacy goes down to help him, but finds that his back is broken. Amy goes down into the cave with a back board so that Mathias could be brought up . Once they are back up on the temple, it is realized that the cell phone is the only way that they could help Mathias, as he is in a terrible condition.Amy and Stacy go into the temple to search for the phone, but find the source of the ringing, which, needless to say, is not actually a phone. Amy finds, to her horror, that the flowers, by vibrating the stems, can imitate sound. She touches the flower, and the vines begin to attack. They run back to the rope, and get pulled up.Stacy has a deep cut near her knee and Mathias is in terrible condition. They go to sleep, slightly frazzled and think they are going insane, and wake up to find that Mathias's legs have been completely overrun by the vines, and Stacy's leg is also covered, and a vine has entered her wound.That's where I will leave off with the summary, as it truly needs to be witnessed in order for the full effect of the movie.However, after this, the movie changes from just an ordinary, sub-grade horror film, to an actually intellectual story. Hunger, thirst, and paranoia set in especially in Stacy--who wholeheartedly believes that the vines are crawling around in her , and she begins to descend into madness.This movie has two of the most disturbing scenes I have ever seen in a movie. I will not reveal what these are, but, trust me--after you have seen it you will Definitely know what ones I am referring to.It turns out, the locals were at first trying to protect the tourists, until Amy stepped onto a vine, when it turned into a quarantine. This is revealed in a chilling scene where Amy throws a peace of the vines at the locals, and it comes into contact with a young boy. The men tell him to get with the others by the temple, to which he refuses. The men reply with a bullet in his head. The vines grow anywhere--they even begin to grow on the tourists clothes.Go see this movie, it truly is a thought-provoking, stomach-churning, and disturbing movie. As I left the theaters I felt mortified in a good way about what I had just watched. It was spectacular, gory, intellectual, horrifying fun. <less> |