{"id":68,"date":"2015-10-03T16:53:43","date_gmt":"2015-10-03T16:53:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/31horrormovies.wordpress.com\/?p=68"},"modified":"2015-10-03T16:53:43","modified_gmt":"2015-10-03T16:53:43","slug":"october-3rd-the-ruins-2008","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rockvideorental.com\/?p=68","title":{"rendered":"October 3rd: The Ruins (2008)"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The Ruins (2008) Directed by Carter Smith<\/p>\n

I saw this movie probably a week after it came out on DVD, and since then I completely forgot about it.\u00a0 <\/span>I was home sick the other day and I was flipping through the HBO and Cinemax channels and stumbled across it.\u00a0 <\/span>I remember liking the movie and since I was nursing a fever I figured what else am I going to do?\u00a0 <\/span>So I gave it a second viewing, here we go!<\/p>\n

Two American couples (Jeff & Amy, Eric & Stacy) meet a German tourist named Matthias on a trip to Mexico.\u00a0 <\/span>They quickly decided to help Matthias search for his brother Heinrich whom met an archeologist and decided to follow her on her trip to a Mayan ruin. \u00a0 <\/span>They make for the ruins with Dimitri, Matthias\u2019s friend.<\/p>\n

They reach the ruins in the thick jungle and are approached by Mayan villagers who don\u2019t speak English, of course.\u00a0 <\/span>Also none of the college-aged people know how to speak Spanish, so that\u2019s really helpful.\u00a0 <\/span>The Mayans are screaming things in Spanish, while the group tries to talk to them.\u00a0 <\/span>Amy backs into some ivy looking plant and the Mayans go ape shit screaming at her.\u00a0 <\/span>Dimitri tries to settle them down and he gets a bullet to the head.\u00a0 <\/span>The rest of the group runs up the ruins to escape.<\/p>\n

At the top they hear a noise down a giant shaft, Matthias is sure its his brother\u2019s ringtone so they lower him down with a rope.\u00a0 <\/span>Of course the rope breaks, because who knows how long that thing has been there\u2026smart.\u00a0 <\/span>Matthias crashes to the bottom and is silent.\u00a0 <\/span>.\u00a0 <\/span>Stacy gets lowered into the shaft to check on Matthias, she jumps the last 10 feet and cuts herself on broken glass.\u00a0 <\/span>Matthias is down there<\/p>\n

And he\u2019s now paralyzed.\u00a0 <\/span>Amy and Jeff go down and try to talk to the Mayans again, why?\u00a0 <\/span>I don\u2019t know!\u00a0 <\/span>It seems if someone shot my friend in the face, I\u2019d stop trying to negotiate with them.\u00a0 <\/span>Amy throws a clump of the vines at a little boy, who is quickly shot after they touched him.\u00a0 <\/span>They realize they are afraid of the vines and won\u2019t let them go because they touched them.\u00a0 <\/span>They make a backboard to send down and bring Matthias back. The girls go down the shaft and put Matthias on the board.<\/p>\n

The next morning Stacy notices that some of the vine has burrowed into her wound from the glass, she freaks out and they get the vine out of her leg.\u00a0 <\/span>Matthias has also had his lower legs eaten down to the bone from the vines.\u00a0 <\/span>Now they realize the vines are predatory and the Mayans have salted the ground around the ruins.\u00a0 <\/span>Matthias is now in bad shape and they have to amputate his legs.\u00a0 <\/span>This scene is pretty brutal where they have use a rock to break the bone, and a cast iron frying pan to cauterize the wound. \u00a0 <\/span>I\u2019m not sure when they realize this, but the vines can replicate noises much like a parrot.\u00a0 <\/span>Stacy thinks Eric cheats on her with Amy because she can hear moaning, which is probably made by the vines.\u00a0 <\/span>While they argue about this the vines choke out Matthias.<\/p>\n

They realize again in the morning that the vines are still crawling inside Stacy so they cut them out again.\u00a0 <\/span>After the long arduous process they relax for a bit then they realize that Stacy has a vine in her face that seemingly burrows into her brain.\u00a0 <\/span>Stacy awakens later paranoid that the vines are still in her and starts slashing herself apart.\u00a0 <\/span>Jeff tries to stop her and she cuts his hand open.\u00a0 <\/span>Eric, in one of the dumbest ideas of all time tries to do the same and she buries the knife in his chest, of course he dies\u2026because he\u2019s an idiot.<\/p>\n

Jeff realizes that they will likely die so he comes up with a plan, smears blood on Stacy\u2019s face and he carries her down to the Mayans.\u00a0 <\/span>He lays Stacy in the dirt and talks to the Mayans talking about what he wanted to do with his life, basically distracting the group.\u00a0 <\/span>They follow him and then he yells Stacy\u2019s name, she gets up and sprints to the jungle.\u00a0 <\/span>They shoot Jeff with arrows and he dies.\u00a0 <\/span>Stacy gets chased by the Mayans and makes it to a Jeep and escapes.<\/p>\n

There are alternate endings that I remember, one is that they show her face and you can see the vines wiggling under his skin.\u00a0 <\/span>The other adds more to it, a caretaker at a graveyard whistles a song that is replicated by Stacy\u2019s grave, of course it\u2019s the plants.\u00a0 <\/span>The version I watched on HBO was the theatrical ending where she escapes, unaffected. \u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n

This movie was rather fast; I think it is like an hour and a half, tops.\u00a0 <\/span>I kind of enjoyed that; it got to the point and was entertaining the entire time. \u00a0 <\/span>Some of the parts were just idiotic, like following a stranger into a Mexican jungle and Eric trying to get Amy to stop cutting herself after she already cut Jeff.\u00a0 <\/span>It made me laugh at the stupidity of the group not knowing Spanish, even enough to talk down the Mayans.\u00a0 <\/span>The idea of the killer plants was kind of cool, I didn\u2019t know what to expect watching this the first time and I was happy that it was something different.\u00a0 <\/span>The gore is pretty good in this and the CGI plants were alright, I\u2019ve seen worse.\u00a0 <\/span>The multiple endings is always odd to me, just pick one and go with it.\u00a0 <\/span>I like the ending with the vines wiggling in her face, because it is not the typical happy ending that every movie has.\u00a0 <\/span>All in all, if you\u2019re looking for something different that isn\u2019t terrible, watch it.\u00a0 <\/span>If you are looking for something amazing that will change your views on horror, look somewhere else.\u00a0 <\/span>I give The Ruins a C+. Like I said the gore was nice, its decently shot, but the characters are dull and those idiotic moments just made me laugh.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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